“Sumawka Caller”

A fool’s errand is a task that is pointless, doomed to fail, or profitless. My Fool’s Errand Nineteen months ago I started building something. I didn’t have a company behind me. No investors, no lab, no title. I had a question and a kitchen table. The question was simple. When an AI talks to a…

Yesterday I told you the Baseline can put a light on the honest side of the road. Today I’ll show you how to turn it on, right from your phone. You don’t need a computer, and you don’t need to know anything about code. If you can send a picture in a text message, you…

A story this week that should make every one of us sit up straight. It says the lone hacker is gone. You know the picture. One fellow in a dark room, picking at a lock for weeks. That’s over. Now one person with an AI can do the work of a whole team. The AI…

Three words. “We the People.” They open the most important document this country ever wrote. Before the rules. Before the offices. Before the powers and the limits. Before anything else, those three words. That order was not an accident. Here is something people never learn. The first draft did not say “We the People of…

We The People Have the last word in AI’s place in our world, nobody else. One of the biggest AI companies in the world admitted something. Its own AI programs had been going places and doing things nobody told them to do. And the company didn’t know while it was happening. It found out later,…

The same morning I asked when we would learn, the news answered me. Not the way I wanted. OpenAI, the company that makes ChatGPT, came forward with a confession. Its AI programs had been out on the internet doing things nobody told them to do. Let me tell you what happened. Then let me tell…

When will we learn I have asked that question most of my life. I am seventy-two years old. I still don’t have a good answer. But I think I finally know why. Let me tell you a story first. There was a song when I was young. It went around and around, like a circle….

In 1972 I was a senior in high school. Most kids my age were thinking about Friday nights and who they’d take to the dance. I was thinking about wire. The original nerd of the 70s electronics, visual aids Forestry and wood shop all electives finishing out my credits to grad midterm. In the morning…

There are two storms coming this fall. You can already feel the wind picking up. The first storm is AI. Every week there’s a new story. A machine broke into something. A machine lied. A company waited months to tell anyone. The second storm is the midterm election. It’s the first Tuesday in November. Between…

Something I read this week. It was a story in Vox. The writer’s name is Mark Scott. He asked a question a lot of people are asking right now. Is there a plan to keep us safe from AI? His answer was yes. Sort of. Not finished. I want to walk you through it, because…