AI Hacks OpenAI Generates a ‘Hired Gun Hacker’ Defense to the N.Y. Times Copyright Case 14 Mar 202414 Mar 2024 The New York Times ("NYT") suit against Microsoft and various Open AI entities ("OAI") alleges copyright infringement by the practice of OAI, and most all other generative AI companies, of…
AI Hacks… Move Fast and Fix Things Using AI: Conclusion to the Plato and Young Icarus Series. 25 Jan 2024 This is the conclusion to the Plato and Young Icarus series. Part One set out the debate in neoclassical terms between those who would slow down AI and those who would speed it up.…
AI Hacks… The Insights of Neuroscientist Blake Richards and the Terrible Bad Decision of OpenAI to Fire Sam Altman 20 Nov 202321 Nov 2023 Blake Richards is a rare academic with expertise in both computer science and neurology. He is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and the Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital…
AI Hacks… Shane Legg’s Vision: AGI is likely by 2028, as soon as we overcome AI’s senior moments 19 Nov 202320 Nov 2023 In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, few voices carry as much weight as Shane Legg, Founder and Chief AGI Scientist at Google DeepMind. AGI, Artificial General Intelligence, is…
AI Hacks… Pythia: Prediction of AI-Human Merger as a Best Possible Future 9 Nov 2023 PYTHIA, the women who served as the Prophetess of Delphi for a thousand years, were the most powerful women of the ancient world. They succeeded for so long due to…
AI Hacks Circuits in Session: Analysis of the Quality of ChatGPT4 as an Appellate Court Judge 1 Nov 2023 This is the third and concluding article of the Circuits in Session series. The quality of GPT4’s legal analysis is evaluated and both positive and negative test results are reported. It did…
AI Hacks Circuits in Session: Addendum and Elaboration of the Appellate Court Judge Experiment 26 Oct 2023 This is an addendum to the prior article, Circuits in Session: Experiment of AI Abilities to Serve as an Appellate Court Judge. That article reported on my experiment with use…
AI Hacks… Experiment of AI Abilities to Serve as an Appellate Court Judge 13 Oct 2023 This article describes an experiment using OpenAI's ChatGPT-4 to do appellate work, usually considered the most intellectually challenging area of the law. My hypothesis was that AI was already capable…
DefCon DefCon Chronicles: Short Story Contest 5 Oct 2023 A little known part of DefCon is its short story contest. A different theme is provided each year and anyone can submit. The winner gets two free tickets and some…
cybersecurity… DefCon Chronicles: My Dad’s Personal Story and the WWII Origin of Hackers 28 Sep 2023 This Chronicle shows how Hackers have their origin in WWII techs and engineers like my father. There were at least five Villages of DefCon Dad would have liked: Soldering Skills,…