“Sumawka Caller”

Something happened this week in a world most of us never visit. The world of mathematics. The kind of math that fills chalkboards and takes a lifetime to learn. On October 6th, the company OpenAI put out more than 300 new math results all at once. Their AI model produced them. They posted them online…

Let me ask you. Have you ever had a moment when your hands stopped working? When something went wrong so fast that your mind just went white, like a sheet of paper with nothing on it? That’s the freeze. Most folks have felt it at least once. A phone call in the middle of the…

Friends, sit with me a minute. I want to talk about a date on the calendar. Not a holiday. Not a birthday. Just a Saturday in the fall that most years would pass like any other. October 17th. Leaves coming down. Ball games on the radio. Folks raking yards and lighting the grill one more…

Every week now, somebody new steps up to watch the machines. A city council passes a rule. A state house holds a hearing. Washington talks about a new office. Big companies announce safety boards with fine-sounding names. Everybody wants a seat at the table where AI gets watched. That’s not a bad thing. Something this…

I’ve been working on my family tree. It’s slow work. You chase one name for days and come up with nothing. Then a hint pops up on the screen, and it looks like exactly what you were hunting. That’s where the trouble starts. The hint says it’s your man. Right name, close enough dates, the…

On Monday, the New York City Council held a hearing on artificial intelligence. It was a serious room. The question on the table was how to keep these machines from doing harm. And the people who came to answer it tell you a lot about where we stand. The builders came. Representatives from Anthropic, OpenAI,…

On Monday night, the President of the United States stood before a crowd in Grand Island, Nebraska. He was talking about the war with Iran. He was talking about what it costs us at home. And then he said something that has the whole country arguing. Here are his words, as near to whole as…

There’s a difference between the man who lays the pipe and the man who sets the house rules. One decides where the water runs. The other decides who gets to use it and how. A good home needs both. But they’re not the same job, and you don’t want one man pretending to be the…

There’s an old rule about money in a small town. If you want to know whether a man is honest, don’t ask him. Ask the fellow who checks his books. Then ask who pays that fellow. You’ll learn more from the second answer than the first. That rule came to mind this week, reading about…

There is an old saying about two men racing their wagons down a mountain road. Neither one wants to be the first to touch the brake. So they both go faster. And the folks who get hurt are usually the ones walking along the side of the road. That’s about where we stand with artificial…