“Someday real soon, most of us — starting with young adults — will carry an always-on AI. This agent will help us navigate our journeys, answer our questions, tutor and teach us new skills, remember people we have met before, … Continue reading →

From the Perplexity web page: Perplexity is an AI-powered search engine that transforms how you discover and interact with information. Simply ask any question, and it searches the web to deliver accessible, conversational answers backed by verifiable sources. Each response … Continue reading →

In the three and a half years I’ve been playing with AI, I’ve used ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini. ChatGPT during the early days, mostly Perplexity these days. (I’m on the $200 per year plan) In the past month or so … Continue reading →

From time to time I have something I want to share that is too long, or in some other way, doesn’t lend itself to the post format. So I create a page that can be as long as necessary. There … Continue reading →

From an opinion piece by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Bots now account for roughly 57-58 percent of HTTP requests for HTML content, compared with about 42-43 percent from humans. Meanwhile, Imperva’s Bad Bot Report based on 2025 data put bots at … Continue reading →

All that remains is some trim work and finishing. Going with Trex was the right call. Will look even better with some of Barb’s beautiful flowers and plants. More »

My childhood could only be described as idyllic. A small town in the ‘50s where we could walk to school (three blocks?) or ride our bikes across town to the city park for little league practice. We stayed out until … Continue reading →

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For the past 24 hours the following story has been in the news: “Anthropic finds hidden ‘workspace’ inside Claude Al. Researchers say the structure holds unspoken concepts during reasoning, mirroring a leading neuroscientific theory of human consciousness.” Two subjects I’ve … Continue reading →

Michael Scott calls Oscar Martinez (The Office) into his office to get his advice on an upcoming medical procedure: “It is a colonoscopy. In your experience, what should I be expecting, in terms of sensation, or emotions? Is there anything … Continue reading →

We’re going to remove the hardened, cloudy lenses from your eyes by breaking them up with an ultrasound device, and then sucking the particles out. We will then insert a flexible silicone based lens. Over the next eight weeks, we … Continue reading →

“The job that was once performed by Lenin and Mussolini is now performed by AI.” Yuval Noah Harari lecture at Oxford University (YouTube description): “Human domination relies on large-scale cooperation among strangers, which is sustained by bureaucratic systems – such … Continue reading →

From an article in The Atlantic (that is behind a paywall): “The (British) health service now has to spend more money settling maternity-malpractice claims than it does on actually providing maternity care. Many Brits can neither obtain an appointment with … Continue reading →

128GB capacity. It will be used to store back ups of this blog (>6,500 posts and a couple thousand media files) as well as KBOA830.com and The Basement Diaries.

I have resisted (for the most part) anthropomorphizing the AI tools I use. But it’s getting harder. I think of Claude as male (my maternal grandfather was named Claude); Gemini seems genderless; and Perplexity is female because the voice I … Continue reading →

The work that Perplexity has done with my 25 years of blog posts makes me wonder if there have been similar efforts by other bloggers. On the open web there are clear signs of people doing very similar things: giving … Continue reading →

I wrote about Maxinomics a couple of months ago. The team is still cranking out great videos. In the latest it asks and answers the question: “Is AI going to take my job? No. But, someone will take your job if … Continue reading →

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I prompted Perplexity to write an essay based on the seventy-five posts in the Religion category on my blog. (First one was in 2004.) Rather than have this written in my own voice with first-person interjections, I told Perplexity to … Continue reading →