Monday, April 27, 2026
Free A.I. Classes
MIT Open Learning is offering classes on Artificial Intelligence and many of them are free.
First Paragraph
This book is about intelligence. On the one hand, it's a portrait of a remarkable human, a chess prodigy, a Nobel laureate, a polymathic thinker. On the other hand, it tells the story of his quest to build remarkable machines: systems that are intuitive, creative, and even original. At some point in the not-so-distant future, artificial intelligence will beat human intelligence at almost every mental task, and to say this marks a watershed would be a parody of understatement. Artificial intelligence heralds a transformation more profound than anything since Homo sapiens acquired the capacity for abstract thought, some seventy thousand years ago.
- From The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence by Sebastian Mallaby
Many Thanks for Your Reviews!
Many thanks to those of you who've posted reviews of Pilate's Magician online and on Amazon.
We're working out the Amazon pages, so the e-book and paperback versions show up on the same page along with the Amazon reviews.
The primary goal, of course, is to create a buzz in the circles that are most likely to enjoy the novel and spread the word.
I wrote my first nonfiction book in 1976 and received an early education on which books get reviewed, which ones get ignored, and how building an audience beyond the original group is vital.
That makes me all the more appreciative of your support.
Work
The Hammock Papers has an observation by J.M.W. Turner that should be placed in every classroom in America.
Sunday, April 26, 2026
Saturday, April 25, 2026
Sharp As A Tack
Ann Althouse got a very strange, and highly inaccurate, correction from ChatGPT.
An excerpt:
- Joe Biden did not withdraw after the primaries were over.
- He stayed in the race through the primaries and remained the nominee.
- Kamala Harris did not replace him as the Democratic nominee.
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