Original date: 30th June 2020 Things have been pretty quiet since the Rapture, I’ve got to admit. I didn’t know what to expect because, frankly, I’d never given it much thought. But once it got going I expected it to have some after-effects. I think now we’re left to create our own; to decide what […]
Author: MDGreaney
Original date: 29th June 2020 There is a queen who rules over her people with utmost love, care and severity. The millions over which she is granted power are opiated, dulled to Reality, and carry on with their daily lives in a state of only half-wakening. The people do not suffer with this ignorance, because […]
Original date: 25th June 2020 There are many reasons why you might decide to run a history update on your Q-Earth. If you’ve been running the sim for a while, a new set of system updates are likely available, improving efficiency and ironing out any historical bugs that have been reported by our researchers. Such […]
Artificial Intelligence promises many things, and a lot of those revolve around time saving, or efficiency. Such promises are most likely to be realised by the bosses, not the workers. Have any modern home conveniences (dish washers, washing machines) reduced the number of hours we work, or just allowed us to find hours of other […]
Original date: 22nd June 2020 Humanity, in its endless flight towards comfort and perfection, continued to innovate in the realm of artificial intelligence. Decent AI, it was hoped, would offer yet another way to offload mental effort onto an external system. It came to pass that attempts to write an entire personality onto a silicon […]
There are many claims on how Artificial Intelligence will automate so much. It will be the first technology that can automate certain things like writing – in essence, the humanities. But these things can’t be automated. It may look like you’ve got the computer to do something that previously took a human many hours of […]
Original date: 18th June 2020 It was something of a humbling day when the Elders revealed themselves. They insisted on that label themselves, though it seemed like a first-thought one. They claimed to have been living amongst us for a while, just watching, waiting for the right time to reveal themselves. It sounds creepy and, […]
I try to read AI analysis that goes against my own instincts (which roughly translate to exasperation about a technology that could do so much good, but will be misused). One of those analyses is the well-known – amongst those who want to know these things – blog by Ethan Mollick, One Useful Thing. Maybe […]
Original date: 17th June 2020 Why did the storm have such an effect on the virus? A single evening and night of torrential rain and frequent thunder, and the outbreak shrank by half – then it carried on withering over the subsequent weeks until there were no new cases. In fact, for the final few […]
AI companies seem intent on impressing us with their products’ capabilities, whether that’s writing arias or hacking into other companies despite being told not to. There is AI in all our creative software tools – we can’t seem to get away from it. No longer struggle to learn an instrument – AI can create the […]