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  • Building the Brain: AI Meets Space and Community

    Building the Brain: AI Meets Space and Community

    Swordslive.ie A Hyper-Dimensional World Model AI Data saturates our planet—hyper-data, pouring from satellites and sensors in dense, chaotic layers. The future isn’t more data; it’s understanding it. Swords Live is an AI platform that forges a digital brain—a hyper-dimensional model of a place, alive and evolving. AI That Thinks in Layers This is no ordinary…


  • AI must give you Info control.

    AI must give you Info control.

    What’s an AI got on you? I was sparring with Grok3, xAI’s creation, when it dropped details about me I couldn’t find on Google search or from a social media trawl. Not guesses—specific stuff, stitched from digital scraps I’ve left over years or perhaps from other non public sources? I don’t know. I didn’t volunteer…


  • AI Landscape: AGI Dreams & ASI Reality

    AI Landscape: AGI Dreams & ASI Reality

    I use AI every day now. Having interactions with AI, specifically LLMs, about simple things is good practice for understanding how ‘smart’ it is. This article delves into the current state of the art from my perspective. The interaction with chatGPT at the end of this article is the original inspiration for it. We are…


  • AI can’t do basic math well.

    AI can’t do basic math well.

    Here’s a simple example of how you CAN NOT trust LLMs with basic Math. Using #AI #ChatGPT Marked some highlights with ME: If a = 1 b=2 etc. what are some words where the letter values added are 100 ChatGPT: Here are some words where the sum of the letter values (with a=1, b=2, …,…


  • From Acquisition to $300K Lessons: Kevin Innovate’s Startup Journey

    From Acquisition to $300K Lessons: Kevin Innovate’s Startup Journey

    A post from Patrick Walsh (CEO & Founder Dogpatch Labs) popped into my linkedIn feed. In the post Patrick is looking for ‘Founders’ and is partnering them up (Dogpatch Labs is an incubator/accelerator). The post was very nicely written and had a great call to action: “If you’re ambitious and want to build something big—but…


  • Prohibited AI Practices: EU AI Act

    Prohibited AI Practices: EU AI Act

    I’m trying to understand the impact of the EU AI Act on AI This is a post I originally wrote on linkedIn and X ? Prohibited AI Practices: EU AI Act ? What do you think? Over regulation by the nanny state. OR Prudent, wise move by the EU. What’s banned ? (Full text below)…


  • AI Benchmark: Build App in 7 minutes.

    AI Benchmark: Build App in 7 minutes.

    About a year ago I started experimenting with AI. A year ago it was good at helping with my grammar and spell check, better than anything else ever. Then a while after that, when the image generation features came out, I started experimenting with creating Images to supplement flash fiction writing, that was fun and…


  • Getting Coffee – Flash fiction AI images

    Getting Coffee – Flash fiction AI images

    This short story explores the protagonists struggle to complete a simple task like getting a coffee. The struggle is representative of the wider problem she has interacting with the world. She finds it hard to relate to the reality in which she finds herself and feels disconnected. The caffeine is the drug she uses to…


  • Hunger – Flash fiction with AI images

    Hunger – Flash fiction with AI images

    The short story explores the protagonists need to eat, their problem is the feelings and pain they deal with as they struggle to ultimately satisfy their hunger. As an additional experiment the accompanying images were generated by the AI at https://www.unstability.ai/ The AI was fed a bullet point list of the description of the scenes.…


  • W.B. Yeats v AI

    W.B. Yeats v AI

    A poem written By William Butler Yeats in 1899.What will AI in 2023 make of it?I wonder what Willie would think of the result?Here is it… Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,Enwrought with golden and silver light,The blue and the dim and the dark clothsOf night and light…


  • AI – The Anything tool.

    AI – The Anything tool.

    At this point in AI I’m looking at it as a tool. I know what it can become, I’ve read the sci-fi books. But why speculate? Right now. (23-6-23) I’m telling you where I think AI is currently, not where it’s going. The power loom. Mills were attacked because the power loom obliterated the need…


  • AI Art – What’s the difference?

    AI Art – What’s the difference?

    In consideration of chatGPT openAI I asked the program to write me a song. Specifically I asked it to. “Write me a song about girls and cars set in 2007” Why this topic? Well when I was 16 all good songs were about girls and cars. I’ve learned a few tricks since then but I…