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Entries Tagged 'Ai'

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AImazon Hell

By Dennis E. Powell | Sep 09, 2026 at 11:16 PM

People I know who have Wen-brand home generators seem to like them, which is part of the reason I decided to purchase one. The rest of the reason is that it had the features I sought at a price I was willing to pay.

Siri AI Once Previewed the Future, Now It Leaves It to Others

By Timothy R. Butler | Sep 09, 2026 at 11:05 PM

I’m closer to “Inbox Zero” than I’ve been in years today. I’d like to say that’s because of Apple’s spiffy new Siri AI. It isn’t. It doesn’t do that. But Siri AI teases a future and those already accomplishing that future show what Apple needs to do next.

Apple Finally Seems to Get the Mac Mini (And So Should You)

By Timothy R. Butler | Aug 26, 2026 at 9:13 PM

The smallest Mac, which often merely existed to be the cheapest Mac, has been warming up for this moment. Thanks to AI, it is finally a star not a concession. And with this week’s M6 chip announcement, Apple finally has embraced that. You should, too.

The End Has Begun

By Dennis E. Powell | Aug 12, 2026 at 10:04 PM

If you were a teenager in 1970 and were beginning to become skeptical of the promise of the space age, beyond “Tang instant breakfast drink” and Velcro, there’s a small chance that you saw a movie, “Colossus: The Forbin Project.” Dozens did. I was among them.

Apple's Skating in the Right Direction, But the Puck is Still Ahead

By Timothy R. Butler | Jun 17, 2026 at 7:13 PM

After years in the wilderness, with this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), I’m cautiously optimistic Apple is finally seeing what some of us have been saying for years. Having fumbled its big unveilings for years straight while letting AI whiz past it, there is at least a glimmer of hope. Is it well founded?

Photocopier No More: The Reckoning with AI Creativity Has Arrived

By Timothy R. Butler | Mar 10, 2026 at 4:16 AM

Two esoteric programming events bubbled up this past week. If you’re not into computer science, they may appear irrelevant to you. They’re not. The arcane managed to bring to life our pressing questions about whether AI can create or is a regurgitation machine.

At Arms Over Anthropic

By Timothy R. Butler | Mar 04, 2026 at 2:12 PM

Remember when everyone on the Right was rightly upset at the government censoring opinions it found distasteful? Somehow that seems forgotten in the other war of this weekend.

Craft, Need and the Ever Devouring AI

By Timothy R. Butler | Feb 25, 2026 at 11:10 PM

A few hours away from me you can visit Silver Dollar City — a scenic, wooded theme park in the Ozark Mountains where craftspeople blow glass and mill flour 19th-century style. It’s charming and memorable. It’s also not the way I buy glassware or food normally.

In an AI World, What Makes Stories Real?

By Timothy R. Butler | Feb 11, 2026 at 5:21 PM

People love this year’s Budweiser commercial. I get it: it’s beautifully filmed and feels good when so much is angry, ugly or both. It is also real to a surprising degree: the commercial was filmed with cameras, not constructed with computers.

Can Grokipedia Tesla-fy Wikipedia?

By Timothy R. Butler | Oct 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
We all love to hate Wikipedia: it is imperfect, but unavoidably useful; biased, but somewhat correctable. Could Grokipedia take what is good about it and round off the rough edges? Maybe.
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