How ChatGPT Saved Me While Traveling
Hiking up an Icelandic glacier is already pretty daunting, but it can be made a bit less daunting with an AI assistant. It can’t help you climb, but it can explain some missing puzzle pieces.
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Author: Nat M. Zorach
Two Things Making The Internet Unusable In 2023
The tech sector is trying to both expand the use of artificial intelligence while clinging on to the dying days of an epic business cycle. Both are contributing to making the internet, IoT, and any consumer product even remotely connected to the internet, increasingly unusable, increasingly resource-intensive, and increasingly frustrating.
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TED Countdown Detroit: Sustainability’s Problem With Elitism and Respectability Politics
Al Gore, McKinsey alums, and half of the Ivy League descends on Detroit this week to tell the peasants about sustainability and decarbonization. Just kidding, it’s a for-profit, invite-only event that costs $4,000– no peasants will be invited.
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“The Old And The Wealthy Will Help Us Grow The State!” – Gretchen Whitmer
The Governor’s office released its list of members of a new state board aimed at reversing population loss in the MItten. The board is generally very wealthy and very old.
Read MoreWhat My First Music Festival Taught Me About Substance Abuse In America.
In June, I attended Electric Forest, a several-days-long marathon of electronic music in northwest Michigan. While I’d attach some caveats
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Unpacking AI Training Biases in Midjourney
Artificial intelligence can produce imagery of whatever you ask it for. The question is: How accurate is the AI’s interpretation? In some cases, it sounds like it’s based more on the prejudices and stereotypes held by the people who design and train the model. That’s a big problem.
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OpenAI Lawsuit: A Dubious Argument On A Monumentally Complex Question
News came out this week about a lawsuit against OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT. The company is being sued by
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SCOTUS Uses 14th Amendment To Kill Affirmative Action. What’s Next?
Affirmative action is officially dead, and the well-meaning liberal spin machine has already kicked into high gear to complain about how this signals the demise of racial justice in America. Thankfully, it’s far more complicated than that, and there are probably better solutions for us out there.
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Detroit Hospitals: Wildfire Smoke Likely Exacerbating Respiratory Illness.
Everything you needed to know about the poor air quality in Southeast Michigan, including pollen vs. particulates and other clean air act pollutants.
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ERCOT Is Working Exactly As It’s Meant To. That’s… Kinda The Problem.
Texas made the conscious decision to cut itself off from the rest of the country. In extreme weather conditions, either its consumers, its energy producers, or its government are going to have to pick up the tab.
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