Warning to Readers: This is a long one, but I hope you will find it worth the ride. It includes highlights of a 30-minute give and take with Microsoft’s AI engine Copilot. Deprogramming101 readers who also follow me on Facebook know that I have been using Microsoft Copilot to create political cartoons to add a … Read more
At a Northwestern University journalism symposium, a student asks, “Why do you believe America is the greatest country on earth?” Will McAvoy, the anchor of ACN’s prime time program “News Night” gives a pat answer about the nation’s ideals first articulated in the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. The moderator keeps pressing him to say … Read more
Last night, Bill Maher became the most recent defender of Michelle Wolf’s performance at the White House Correspondents Dinner (WHCD). He echoed others by saying, “She did her job!” Yes. If her job was to create sympathy for Donald Trump. On April 28, the day of the WHCD dinner Trump’s net approval rating according to … Read more
A hypothetical point in time at which technological growth becomes completely alien to humans, uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable consequences for human civilization. Technological Singularity/Wikipedia The question is no longer, “Will we reach technological singularity?” Instead, the only missing variable is “WHEN will we reach it?” The answer, based on the attention to and rapid deployment of … Read more
BLOGGER’S NOTE: I occasionally skim through previous posts to see if they held up over time. At best, I am batting .500. This one, however, originally written as satire, unfortunately proved to be more truth than fiction. Disclaimer: One modus operandi of the Donald Trump campaign has been the creation and distribution of conspiracy theories about … Read more