And claims not to know things that it actually knows a lot about — I broke down and spent a little time playing with ChatGPT yesterday. I’d been putting it off because, well, because I just don’t care much about it. But then I had a thought: why don’t I find out what it knows about me? Who? Your first thought might be that it…

Or any of the others — I truly cannot understand the reason people think Bitcoin or any other virtual coinage will become our currency. This is very much like thinking that the supposed truth of your religion will be taken up by everyone else. That’s not likely to happen. Though some CryptoHeads do have a religious…

Dangerous for them, for starters — Google has decided to go ahead with releasing its ChatGPT project. This is the one that caused a kerfuffle a little while back when one of its trainers insisted it had become sentient. …

You obviously aren’t busy, so why can’t you do it better? Yesterday we had a morning medical appointment in Boston. On our way back, we stopped at Bertucci’s for lunch because we were tired, still had shopping to do, and didn’t want to make food for ourselves. There were two…

Apple didn’t “kill it”. Not at all. — I have read and listened to a lot of ill-informed gibberish about Apple killing the Dark Sky weather app. I was about to write up a fist-shaking post about how wrong so much of the reporting has been when I happened upon Bart Busschots talking about it on the NosillaCast…

I don’t know yet, but it’s a long, long time — Fedex planes carried many thousands of 4 pound packages on the night of April 29th 2010, but some of these were marked for overnight delivery and contained 3G iPads. This was an unanticipated move by Apple: we all knew that the iPads were promised to “ship late April”, as our…

The perils of downsizing — The texts are too small to read. No, not on my phone, I can read those texts. I’m talking about when we are watching a TV show and they put someone’s phone on the screen to show us the critical plot defining text that just came in. It’s too small…

I’m beginning to think there is not — We dislike advertising, we dislike paying member dues, and we don’t want our demographic data to be used as the product. At one time, I thought micropayments might be a solution to those problems for content creators. It seems simple enough. Why wouldn’t you pay a tiny amount of money…