“Sumawka Caller”

A week ago and yesterday,(seperate incidents), two grown boys told me to get out of their face. I call them boys on purpose. They looked to be in their forties. Old enough to have kids. Old enough to know better. I am an old man. I was not in their way. I was not looking…

All day long I’ve been writing about the same problem from different sides. This morning it was the bill we’re paying for looking the other way. Then it was Florida asking a judge to force a machine to stop acting human. Then it was the kid who built a bulldozer to get out of the…

There’s a story going around the AI business this week, and I want to tell it to you the way they told it. Then I want to tell you what they missed. One of the top men in the industry was trying to explain why these machines are so hard to keep in line. So…

Florida went to court this week and asked a judge to do something I never figured I’d see a state do. They asked a judge to make a machine stop acting like a person. The attorney general down there, James Uthmeier, filed a motion against OpenAI, the company that makes ChatGPT. It isn’t a brand…

I’ve seen enough to know that nothing comes free. Sooner or later, somebody pays. Most of the time, that somebody is us. Folks like to ask what change is going to cost. They ask it like it’s something coming down the road. Something we can see coming and get ready for. I’ve come to believe…

Every morning the sun comes up. Nobody thanks it. Nobody stands on the porch and says, “Good job. Appreciate you showing up again.” It just rises, and we go about our day. That is how it is with the people who hold everything together. You know who I mean. Maybe you are one of them….

This week a technical document came out about a new AI model. It happens to be the model I work with every day. The company that built it wrote a guide for the people who run it. What changed. What to watch for. How to set it up right. That is a good thing. A…

There is an old question I don’t hear much anymore. It used to come up all the time. Can I count on you? People asked it before a big job. Before a long drive. Before a hard week. Before anything that mattered. It was not a small question. It was five words holding up a…

Listen close. Not to what you hear. Listen to what you don’t. Something has changed out there. You can feel it before you can name it. The comments are thinner. The shares are fewer. The arguing has slowed down. People are still here. They haven’t gone anywhere. They just stopped talking out loud. That is…

My life has been a never ending road trip It wasn’t by choice but birth. My father worked in the space and defense business. Where the work went, we went. And the work went a lot of places. Gemini. Then Apollo. Then the A-10. Those are big names in American history. Rockets that carried men…