Been thinking more about AI. There was an incident a few weeks ago about a video game “caught” using AI. The developers left some placeholder text and translations in, consisting of 0.3% of the game’s content. And everyone lost their freakin’ monkey minds. Which left me wondering, “does it really matter”? The editorialist thought it did, because A) AI is built on theft B) there were easy substitutes like lorem ipsum. Translations may take time and money, but it’s the right professional thing to do. But when has a company ever been concerned about “the right thing”? They are always going to pick the thing that costs the least time…
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Some Thoughts About AI
You can’t go on a single web page without AI getting in your face, either it or something about it and how it’s going to doom us all, stocks are tanking, jobs are disappearing. But the thing is, the only people who care about AI are the ones shoveling it into everything. The CEOs and corporate executives who are investing so much into it because they took a pass on crypto and don’t want to miss the boat a second time. Who’s going to be the 800-lb. gorilla first? Who’s going to go under because of it? How will you be able to tell what’s AI-generated and what’s not? When’s…
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The Commodore 64 Game Therapy
A long long time ago, when I was but a wee bairn, my grandfather owned a Commodore 64 computer. That’s pretty unusual for a guy born in 1921, served in WWII and the Korean War, to be embracing the technological age so early. He had a PC before our family had a PC. And my dad was a mainframe guy–he got a job in tech when they were still using punch cards and big old magnetic tape storage. Anyway, I would rather play on the computer than listen to my parents and grandparents talk. Because that’s all they did. And they didn’t have any fun stuff like my maternal grandparents…
