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by Dwayne Phillips If a computer is used in a system, the data is stored and can be retrieved. This story is making the rounds on the Internet…Tesla was involved in a crash lawsuit. Tesla said, “We don’t have any data.” A hacker found the data in the car. Put this down next to the […]

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by Dwayne Phillips This current trend in AI fails miserably when confronting the nemesis of all logic—the American teenager. I recently read about a big fast food chain in America that installed one of these AI chattering bots on the drive through ordering system. Let AI take the orders. Save cost. Improve profit. This will […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Borrowing from The Software Crisis of the 1990s, I declare The AI Crisis. A recent report from MIT claims that 95% of AI projects attempted by well-meaning folks fail. Gosh. That is a pretty high percentage. I remember the software crisis of the late 1980s and all through the 1990s. Reports like […]

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by Dwayne Phillips The makers of the first generation of the home computer are passing. I saw recently that Steve Wozniak is now 75 years old. I clearly recall the first time I saw an Apple computer. It was early in 1980. I was still a senior engineering student at LSU. I was in one […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Short-range drone attacks using low-cost hardware and software. Could we use this stuff for other things? During 2025, most of the world was amazed by a couple of military actions that involved drones. Urkaine destroyed Russian military facilities deep inside Russia. Israel destroyed Iranian facilities deep inside Iran. Both of these operations […]

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by Dwayne Phillips AI has upended large parts of the education system. What to do? Back to basics. Decide what is important to learn and teach that. Teachers give an assignment. Students use one of these chattering bots to write the answer. Task done. No learning, but the task is done so move on. This […]

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by Dwayne Phillips New tools sometimes allow us to modify the techniques we use. The new tools don’t require modification, but allow it. These kids today, these engineers and scientists under 30, they just … well, they just do things differently. They have new tools (and I have new tools). They work the way the […]

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by Dwayne Phillips AI agents are all the rage. Really? Of course these things are old news. OpenAI released the ChatGPT Agent recently. Wow! Great stuff! Okay, it is pretty good stuff. Here is a prompt in plain, everyday English. When something happens, do something. Here are instructions in plain, everyday English. Do that complex […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Information has always been searchable. What I really want is information that is findable. Search is a topic that has plagued and payed computer scientists since anyone was first called a computer scientist. I studied search back when I was in college (we used punch card machines back then and wrote on […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Instead of wiggling around so we can call our efforts “AI,” let’s focus on useful and helpful software. Over a decade ago (yes, that long), I was working with a graduate student on their writing. They had difficulty describing their research to others. Their work was wonderful. They had developed a concept […]

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