Published in DataDrivenInvestor·Feb 24Perverse Instantiation, Or When Good AI Bots Go BadIt all began much like in the original Jurassic Park movie, with a celebrating John Hammond showing up at our doors. Except that it wasn’t a rich industrialist this time, but Microsoft with an invitation to try their new Bing built with Chat GPT. …Microsoft3 min readMicrosoft3 min read
Published in DataDrivenInvestor·Feb 1Is Theft Part of Artificial IntelligenceIt is hard to imagine an industry unaffected by Artifical Intelligence these days. For example, take the legal industry in England. One week ago Getty Images announced that they are pursuing a lawsuit against Stability AI, the developer of the popular artwork tool. Getty is starting its suit with a…Artificial Intelligence2 min readArtificial Intelligence2 min read
Published in An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)·Jan 17What If You Don’t Really Exist, Or I Don’t?It is well known in science that the universe is infinite. Simply put, the cosmos is finite. Yet it is expanding. Dark energy is driving this growth and accelerating it. Astronomers accept that creation is flat and an even macrocosm expands forever, it is infinite. Douglas Adams once said if…Science4 min readScience4 min read
Published in An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)·Dec 23, 2022What If The Atmosphere Caught on Fire?Imagine for a moment your standing in the middle of the Jornada del Muerto desert in New Mexico. It’s July 16th 1945, at the height of World War 2. Robert Oppenheimer must be standing out here somewhere in the cold night. He must be anxious. The clock is counting down…History5 min readHistory5 min read
Published in An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)·Nov 29, 2022Why You Might Live Inside a Black HoleImagine for a moment that you are falling towards a black hole. Or to be more exact an event horizon. All holidays need a good scare. If you could, you’d look outward to see a sky full of stars fading away to oblivion. You’d feel the forces of gravity rapidly…Physics3 min readPhysics3 min read
Published in DataDrivenInvestor·Nov 7, 2022Why Fake News Needs Social EngineeringPresident Donald Trump died this week.Psychology3 min readPsychology3 min read
Oct 28, 2022You could argue that in some ways its irrelevant what debts banks accumulate for Musk or any other…You could argue that in some ways its irrelevant what debts banks accumulate for Musk or any other businessman. The Subprime Mortgage Crisis showed that banks are happy to repackage and resell the debt to its customers. If anything, its their business model.1 min read1 min read
Published in DataDrivenInvestor·Oct 16, 2022How Twitter Could Be Better Monetized, The SequelLast April Elon Musk offered to acquire Twitter with the aspiration of restoring free speech to the platform. This purchase was at first met with hostility by the Twitter board and factions of the internet, but the board changed their tune by the end of April. But then Musk canceled…Business3 min readBusiness3 min read
Published in DataDrivenInvestor·Sep 16, 2022Why The Skyhook Has Yet To Beat SpaceXIn the 1865 novel From The Earth To The Moon, Jules Verne fantasized about humanity exploring the Moon. A feat that we finally accomplished 53 years ago with the Apollo Missions. Then in the 1950 film Destination Moon, filmmakers pondered that someday rockets would land vertically. …Space5 min readSpace5 min read
Published in DataDrivenInvestor·Jul 23, 2022Is the Google LaMDA Chatbot Sentient Life?Last week the Google engineer Blake Lemoine sparked internet outrage with the claim that the LaMDA chatbot is a sentient lifeform. LaMDA is an abbreviation for Language Model for Dialog Applications. This claim was at first met with dismissal by Google executives following an internal communication. Lemoine later leaked a…Artificial Intelligence4 min readArtificial Intelligence4 min read
