Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips Rogue AI agents? Nope, it’s call malware. Malware (a portmanteau of malicious software) is any software intentionally designed to cause disruption or destruction to a computer, server, client, or computer network, leak private information, gain unauthorized access to information or systems, deprive access to information, or interfere with the user’s computer security […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Attempts to put unstructured information into a structure had their day. Goodbye to them. Much of the information that people use is unstructured. Consider a novel you like. Consider a text that is the foundation of a field of study. Not much structure that is easy to ingest into a computer. Until […]

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by Dwayne Phillips College professors and other educators continue to struggle needlessly with writing assignments and AI-regurgitated text. Here we have yet another story of a teacher with the best of intentions trying to have students write papers in the era of the current slate of AI systems that pump out text at the push […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Big tech advise$ educator$ to drop the coding and teach the AI. Every few years, rich people advise educators on what to educate. This advice often comes as, “Here is money for an after-school program,” and “here is money for in-school programs,” and “here is money, do what we say or else.” […]

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by Dwayne Phillips We have invented a new job: it is the chatic (pronounced like “static”) or the chattering bot technician. I often work as a chattering bot technician. Substitute the name of your favorite system (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Coilot, Mistral, Qwen, Grok, etc.) for chattering bot and you have it. We employ “ChatGPT technicians” […]

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by Dwayne Phillips If it is important to me to tell others what I think, I write it myself. If it is just stuff that a machine could write, let the machine write it. I write this blog. I sit in the coffee shop on Saturday mornings and press every key on the keyboard to […]

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by Dwayne Phillips We return to the era of the main computer center and waiting for computer time. Way back in the previous millennium, I was leaving graduate school. While in school, I had access to a new 32-bit minicomputer (I think it was made by Perkin-Elmer if anyone else remembers that time). One problem […]

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by Dwayne Phillips I guess we live in an age where we have to state this, even though many disbelieve. If the grammar is too good, AI must have written it. If the style has changed, AI must have written it. If fill-in-the-blank, AI must have written it. It is possible to write with good […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Tools cost money. Tools amplify abilities. It may seem obvious, but consider if the amplification is worth the cost. Tools cost money. Tools also amplify the ability to do something. A lever helps me lift an object. The lever is not free. Is it worth it? That is pretty basic. Of course […]

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by Dwayne Phillips AI is a tool to be used by those who provide ice cream cones and honey buns. Lose sight of that and advance at your peril. Who is going to be the winner in all this AI competition? Who is going to be the loser in this? After all, avoiding losing is […]

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