AI Today
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a topic of fascination and innovation for decades, particularly in SciFi, with rapid advancements over the past few years. From self-driving cars and voice-activated virtual assistants to medical diagnostics. I was a big fan of the TV show House but was always irked by the premise. Clearly, an AI would…Read More
The AIs Fight Back
I write about AI; I think about AI; I talk about AI. Isn’t it fair to give them the chance to do the same regarding me? I set out on a quest to find out what various well known AIs had to say about SPARK. I asked OpenAI’s GPT-4, Chat GPT-3.5’s successor, Bing AI, and…Read More
Beyond the HAL 9000
In the iconic movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey, an Artificial Intelligence, the HAL 9000, went nuts and killed all but one of his human crew. Since then, BSC (Bat Sh*t Crazy) AIs have been de rigeur in SciFi. Colossus – Colossus: The Forbin Project – followed shortly thereafter. More recently, it’s been all about SkyNet…Read More
Article for Factually Fictional
Here’s the post I did for Reader’s Entertainment with some bonus content: Two hundred years. That’s how long we’ve known that some materials generate an electrical charge when exposed to light. That’s solar power. But how do we turn that electrical charge into a usable form of energy for things like reading this blog? I…Read More
Dark matter, dinosaurs, and super-massive black holes
One of the storylines in Solar Prime revolves around the dinosaur extinction event. The quest itself is called KT Crossing in the book. That is a reference to the geological boundary between the Cretaceous (K) and Tertiary (T) periods. Current theory is that a meteoroid hit Earth where the Chicxulub (CHEEK-shuh-loob) crater is today (Yucatan…Read More