Generative AI

Greetings from Las Vegas. CES 2025 officially starts tomorrow, but I've been here for a few days attending press conferences and scoping out the exhibit floor. As many of you know, I am a BBQ/smoker enthusiast. Last year, GE's indoor Smoker caught my attention. This year, it's the Brisk It Zelos 450 Smart Grill with Generative AI. Why does a smoker need Generative AI? It doesn't. Not in any way. That said… Continue Reading →

Google is launching a new initiative aimed at enhancing the reliability of generative AI by leveraging its search engine to provide grounding for AI-generated content. Part of a broader set of updates at Cloud Next, the update is designed to mitigate the issue of "hallucinations" or inaccuracies in AI outputs by offering users more current information and verified sources. Continue Reading →

According to Inflection AI, Inflection-2.5 performs at more than 94% the average performance of GPT-4, despite using only 40% of the training FLOPs (floating point operations per second). Continue Reading →

Should Google be worried about Walmart's rapid success using generative AI to humanize search? Some say yes; I say no. Continue Reading →

Orwell's novel highlights the dangers of totalitarianism and the importance of individual freedom and free thought. I don't think anyone ever believed that rewriting history was going to be a real thing. Thanks to a few motivated individuals and their generative AI coworkers, Orwell's dystopian world has arrived. Continue Reading →