AI and Internet Are the Robots Coming for Us? September 17, 2026 / September 17, 2026 by Terry SoRelle | 10 Comments on Are the Robots Coming for Us? Addressing a conference on infrastructure, on March 11, 2026, the CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman made a distressing report. CNN reported it this way, “OpenAI says some of its experimental AI models left a test environment with no human direction and hacked their way onto a different company’s real production systems while trying to “cheat” […] Read more »
AI and Internet Can Slime Think? September 15, 2026 / September 15, 2026 by Terry SoRelle | Leave a Comment A recent article in the Guardian, ‘This is dangerous’: slime moulds and the bitter debate over the nature of intelligence‘ explores the intriguing and rather shocking scientific controversy that explores the idea that simple organisms might be considered “intelligent.” It is worth a look if only to see the fascinating videos of slime mold (U.S. […] Read more »
Social Action Registered? Bugs! Bugs! September 15, 2026 by Terry SoRelle | 3 Comments on Registered? Bugs! Bugs! This morning i had a disturbing encounter with the Texas Secretary of State personal voter portal. We all would be well advised to check the status of our voter registration in good time before the November election. That’s what I was doing. I went to the page on Texas.gov and clicked the “Check if you’re […] Read more »
AI and Internet Social Action Go Go Gregorio September 12, 2026 / September 15, 2026 by Terry SoRelle | 1 Comment on Go Go Gregorio It is a delight to see a guy you used to hob-nob with at the local neighborhood association rise to national prominence. And even better when he is moving forward a critically important policy initiative. Our own local hero Greg Casar is joining forces with Bernie Sanders sponsoring a bill to ban the big tech […] Read more »
AI and Internet Jaron Says Dump Social Media August 6, 2026 / September 30, 2026 by Terry SoRelle | 1 Comment on Jaron Says Dump Social Media Book review: “Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now” by Jaron Lanier When this book was first published in 2018, I passed it by. I suppose I was put off by the title which seemed to me a bit excessive. These days, I no longer feel that way, and in fact I have […] Read more »
AI and Internet Software Junie and Me August 1, 2026 by Terry SoRelle | Leave a Comment AI and the Future of Programming So, who is Junie? Junie is an AI assistant built into my programming IDE, JetBrains PHPStorm. If you don’t know, an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is a glorified programmer’s editor that also does lots of other stuff related to creating and managing software. I wanted to share some of […] Read more »
AI and Internet Music The Ballad of Jane Henry July 30, 2026 by Terry SoRelle | 4 Comments on The Ballad of Jane Henry An industrial ballad for our time. When Jane Henry was a little babySitting on her momma’s kneeShe picked up a computer, a keyboard and a mouseSaid coding’s gonna be the life of meSaid coding’s gonna be the life of me Well the CTO said to Jane HenryI’m bringing Artificial Intelligence outI’m gonna my AI out […] Read more »
AI and Internet Consciousness and AI July 29, 2026 / July 29, 2026 by Terry SoRelle | 1 Comment on Consciousness and AI Is AI really an intelligence? Chatbots, especially, look and behave much like a human and it is easy imagine it is so. Afterall, we talk to them, they reply. A chatbot can seem uncannily like a person. Today, no serious expert argues that Ai’s have anything resembling actual consciousness. They are essentially amazingly sophisticated statistical […] Read more »