DefCon… Ralph’s Reading Background and Favorite Fiction Books 12 Sep 202312 Sep 2023 Image by Ralph using MidJourney First, as to my bonafides for writing a review. My first job after college was as manager of my father's book store. I've been an…
AI Hacks… DefCon Chronicles: Where Tech Elites, Aliens and Dogs Collide – Series Opener 23 Aug 20233 Sep 2023 From Boris to Bots: Our First Dive into the DefCon Universe. This begins a series of blogs chronicling the infamous DefCon event in Las Vegas. The next installment will cover…
AI Hacks… Surprising Admissions by OpenAI Leaders Made in Recent Interviews 8 Aug 202320 Nov 2023 OpenAI's head scientist, Ilya Sutskever, revealed in an interview by a fellow scientist near his level, Sven Strohband, how the emergent intelligence of his neural-net AI was the surprising result…
AI Hacks… Hacker Fiction 1 Aug 202312 Sep 2023 OPERATION VERITAS. This illustrated novel by Ralph Losey was derived from his short story submission to DEFCON 31. He subsequently added Midjourney illustrations. Here is a page with Ralph's reading…
AI Hacks… Government Regulation of AI is Coming Soon. 1 Aug 2023 White House Obtains Commitments to Regulation of Generative AI from OpenAI, Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta and Microsoft Chat Bots say 'Catch me if you can! I move fast.' In…
AI Hacks… Sam Altman’s Favorite Unasked Question: What Will We Do in the Future After AI? 16 Jul 202320 Nov 2023 Sam Altman, All Images by Losey using Midjourney and Photoshop Sam Altman had some fascinating things to say recently about technology revolutions and what comes after AI. Apparently that is…
philosophy Information → Knowledge → Wisdom: Progression of Society in the Age of Computers 13 May 202324 May 2023 LENGTHY BACKGROUND ESSAY WITH PREDICTIONS OF COMING SOCIAL UPHEAVALS AND POSSIBLE AI RESCUE Originally Published on April 7, 2015 The personal computer revolution started by the Hacker elite in the 1970s has…
philosophy Examining the 12 Predictions Made in 2015 in “Information → Knowledge → Wisdom” 7 May 201713 May 2023 A little over two years ago, on April 5, 2015, my seminal world-view essay was published: Information → Knowledge → Wisdom: Progression of Society in the Age of Computers. I…
philosophy How The 12 Predictions Are Doing That We Made Last year In “Information → Knowledge → Wisdom” 5 Apr 201613 May 2023 A year ago, April 5, 2015, we published what some consider our best essay: Information → Knowledge → Wisdom: Progression of Society in the Age of Computers. We wrote about the…