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 202314 Dec 2024 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,…
AI Hacks… DefCon Chronicles: Quick Glimpse of the Thirty-Two Villages 25 Sep 2023 There were Thirty-Two Villages at DefCon 31, each with their own mission and culture. Cybersecurity hackers from all over the world went in and out of these villages. It was…
Chinese Hackers… DefCon Chronicles: The Hacker Olympics – ‘Capture The Flag’ Games with 1,828 Competing Teams 18 Sep 2023 Fake Photo by Ralph of Hackers Competing in CTF Games. A big draw at every DefCon is the team event, CAPTURE THE FLAG (CTF). This competition is for the world's…
AI Hacks… DefCon Chronicles: Sven Cattell’s AI Village, ‘Hack the Future’ Pentest and His Unique Vision of Deep Learning and Cybersecurity 13 Sep 2023 Sven Cattell, AI Village Founder. Image from DefCon video with enhancements by Ralph using spherical cows inspired by Dr. Cattell's recent article, The Spherical Cow of Machine Learning Security DefCon's…
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…
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