Episode 1 - A Stranger in an Airport I find AI to be very useful. It isn't always perfect, and sometimes it's just completely wrong, but even so, using AI helps me work faster and improve the quality of my output.

I'm starting a newsletter about practical uses of #AI. I hope to convince everyone that AI is useful, even if it isn't perfect. By learning how these models work and what they excel at, we can all free up some time in our busy lives.

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KM3NeT xkcd.com/3053

Radon xkcd.com/3037

Also if an AI could just admit it doesn’t know instead of making stuff up, that would be really helpful.

This is fascinating. Even as a human it can be hard to know if I’m right about something. My example is a recent debate with some friends about if eating snow will dehydrate you more than the water it provides. An AI that could fact check better than a human would be a powerful tool.

After further interrogations and suggestions (thank you for the thoughts everyone!)…

In the spirit of the Turing Test, I propose the Cripslock Test: No system can be called AGI if that system cannot reliably determine whether or not it is spewing absolute bullshit.

(Named for Sacharissa Cripslock)

2025's mission objectives:
• Launching a newsletter about AI that won't tell you to put glue on pizza (the newsletter won’t , AI still might) 📨
• Making more weird and wonderful things 🛠️
• Helping shape AI into something genuinely useful for humans

Sometimes a temporal landmark is a great excuse to reflect and think. 2024 was a .. year, but there were some good things:
• Gave my first keynote 🎤
• Validated my feeling that most Humans don't want AI hype 💯
• Built things, broke things, learned things (mostly in that order) 🥽

Giant Button Enables Ads on the Internet I built a button that disables our Pi-Hole, and gave it to my house for Christmas! I didn't tell them what it was, so let's see if they can figure it out.Thi...

During my holiday break, I made a button to disable our Pi-Hole and I just got the video posted, check it out: youtu.be/h51sABc1pn0

Señor Serpent Delivers Candy to Daring Trick or Treaters I love giving candy to trick-or-treaters. I really do. But even more than that, I enjoy building clever contraptions to do the job for me. This Halloween 202...

Just got my latest project video posted! For Halloween this year, I made a giant snake (Named Señor Serpent) to dispense candy, and it was by far my best one yet! youtu.be/yx-XmNHf8fQ

#maker #halloween #youtube