Data Matters February 2025

As recently as 2022, AI could persuade a person to change less than half the time (38.2%). Now, only a Continue reading →

Increasingly Persuasive AI

Much of the AI news is about its progress towards and possibly surpassing human intelligence. A different worry is not Continue reading →

AI At A Human Level

By at least one measure, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has: “…just achieved human-level results on a test designed to measure “general Continue reading →

Historically Large Outage

We are electronically interconnected. No surprise there. Despite, or perhaps because of its complexity, the system can be incredibly fragile. Continue reading →

Wind And Solar Data – May 2024

A nice and concise entry to an Ars Technica article;“By displacing fossil fuels, wind and solar saved the US $250 Continue reading →

Data That Matters April 2024

Milestone – AIs can now control fighter airplanes in dogfights and do so without damaging the airplane’s pilot, meaning they Continue reading →

Flame Throwing Robot

What could possibly go wrong? We’re asking that question a lot, lately. For $9,420, you too can own a flame-throwing Continue reading →

AI Learns To Dogfight

This is another one of those binary moments. The only data is chronicling something that never happened to something that Continue reading →