Artificial intelligence (AI) is all the rage. It’s almost given god-like praise by a lot of people in tech world. It’s going to solve all our problems and bring everlasting prosperity to all, or and it will do so almost magically. The more information we feed it, the more it … [continued]
Artificial intelligence has legitimate uses but it being used to initiate offensive military actions without human supervision.
The Trump administration’s recent decision to label AI startup Anthropic a “supply chain risk” effectively barred the company from federal contracts and isolated it from private firms doing business with the military. While the standoff has been framed largely as a national security issue or a spat with the Trump … [continued]
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin — The Wisconsin Public Service Commission (PSC) is considering a new rate structure on data centers that favors profits and protections for Big Tech companies and We Energies, putting Wisconsinites at risk to subsidize the infrastructure costs needed for these billion-dollar companies to run their data centers. We Energies is … [continued]
As with any “new tech,” there’s a lot of hype and dreams and enthusiasm about what kind of wonderful future the tech can bring. However, there are also inevitably negative ramifications, side effects, and bad things people and companies will end up doing with the tech. In the case of … [continued]
The quest for AI and humanoid robots is focused on large language models. One authority thinks that is the wrong approach.
ChatGPT & DALL-E generated landscape-orientation abstract image of a large learning model spitting out a cloud of green answers
Regular readers will either appreciate or hate that for roughly 20 months I’ve been decorating my articles and presentations with images generated by artificial intelligence algorithms. I’m not going to address the full range of reasons, but will just do some basic math on the electricity use to get a … [continued]
Think of the Kia EV3 as a grown-up, electrified version of the hugely popular Kia Soul. It’s cute, in a chunky sort of way, with room for 5 and lots of stuff. There is a distinct family resemblance to its big brother, the Kia EV9 three-row SUV, but at only … [continued]
This is not clearly or directly cleantech, but it’s a tech matter that touches everything and will surely touch cleantech as well. Also, while cleantech is a core solution to a major global problem, there are other major global problems and potential major global problems to deal with. In the … [continued]
ChatGPT knows more stuff than you do. A lot more stuff. The entire internet of stuff. Asking it about anything is more likely to provide a complete answer than writing it yourself, even if the subject is nerdy energy flow diagrams.
