Agent Wars VI: Ping Pong — A Panel of Expertise with Two AIs
A second AI can send the ball back. Three rounds of cross-model critique made the economics argument narrower, more honest, and ready for a real-world test.
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Agent Wars V: How Money Can Be Made with AI Agents
What does an accepted agent outcome earn after model use, review, rejected cases, overhead, and acquisition? A deliberately illustrative invoice and a testable pilot.
Resilient and Deliverable Email
SPF, DKIM, and DMARC help important email reach its destination—and help recipients trust who sent it. Here is what each layer does, why setup is tricky, and how ChatGPT Work helped turn a one-time repair into a recurring health check.
De-Digitize: Could AI Erase Your Digital Life? Yes.
A practical case for preserving digital life across cloud, offline media, paper, and tested restoration.
The Last Archive: Movie Concept Art (Part 1 of 2)
A disaster movie concept that could inspire action on digital preservation.
The Last Archive: Game Concept Art (Part 2 of 2)
A preservation survival game concept, paired with the movie and digital preservation article.
Agent Wars III: MANGO-X Meets D-BAM's Qwikido
中文 A fictional roundtable for the real contest between American and Chinese frontier AI labs Put the leading American and Chinese AI labs in one room and the first surprise is that they are not fighting the same war. This is a thought…
智能体战争 III：MANGO-X 与 D-BAM 的 Qwikido 会面
English 关于中美前沿人工智能实验室真实竞争的一场虚构圆桌会议 如果把美国和中国领先的人工智能实验室请进同一个房间，第一个意外发现是：它们打的并不是同一场战争。 这是一个思想实验，并非真实峰会的报道。桌子一侧坐着六家美国公司，我把它们称为 MANGO-X ：Microsoft、Anthropic、NVIDIA、Google、OpenAI 和 xAI。它们面向公众的五支智能体团队构成 Fab Five ：Copilot、Claude、Gemini、ChatGPT…
AI Agent Wars II — The One-Person Company Gets a Workbench
The one-person company gets a workbench Todd Kelsey · Tsunami Labs This is why developers and “one-person startup” founders have been going insane. The world is moving fast—not because one model crossed a magical line, but because…
AI Agent Wars I: Who Owns the Outcome and Permission to Act?
Two land grabs in enterprise agents: specialized outcomes and the governed doorway.
Article: AI Needs Virtual Memory
One of the most valuable capabilities of modern AI is the expanding context window. A large context window lets a model hold much more material in mind at once: a codebase, a litigation record, a long research corpus, months of agent…
Tensor Search and Vector Databases: Memory and Search for Generative AI
One of the most interesting aspects of generative AI is the underlying databases and search techniques that are opening up new worlds, including giving memory to tools like ChatGPT. (ChatGPT has a form of amnesia, and if the…
Your School Can Thrive: Embrace AI
ChatGPT skills and other AI skills are not only increasingly expected in the workplace , they can help non-elite students and institutions to compete. Reading a recent important article in MIT Tech Review, “ ChatGPT is about to…
20 Prompt Engineering Pain Points
Even though it's not clear how many jobs there are for prompt engineers, just about every job will be impacted by prompt-based tools. Personally, I'm intrigued with the idea that using AI tools like ChatGPT and Dall-e 2 could help a…
Let's Avoid the Digital Dark Ages, with Non-Toxic Social Media
The original Dark Ages was a period of economic, intellectual and cultural decline between the 5th and 14th centuries, and towards the end of it, there was a pandemic: The Black Plague. Part of the reason it was called the Dark Ages is…
Data Fluency: A Call to Action for Higher Ed (and everyone else)
This short article is a simple review of some of the reasons I believe it is critical for everyone to learn more about data: all schools from K to PhD, and all learners, whether you are in college or not. In the article I present…
Exploring the World of Quantum Computing
Quantum computing is not "5-10 years in the future"; it's already here, and just like artificial intelligence, it is moving fast (and it among other things it can accelerate AI). Google Trends is an easy to use tool that anyone can use…
IoT Tomatoes: the Strange New World of Self Pollination and Vibrating Plastic Bees
And now for something completely different . . . I have been helping a friend with a new startup called CropDroid, which is an Internet of Things indoor/vertical gardening automation platform, where you can set up a highly scalable…
Multilingual Comics with Google Spreadsheets and Photoshop
This is a behind the scenes look at the production process for multilingual Carla comic images that are a part of an article series I have been working on with Richard Whitt of the Glia Foundation; I also have been sharing the articles…
Thumbs Up: Spicing up Zoom Meetings
Start with a Sharpie or pen or similar. Gather odds and ends, chopsticks or pens. Try adding eyes, perhaps even glasses? Try using a pen or chopstick for shaping glasses. A cotton ball may be hidden at the top of an upopened container…
Helping Students to Become AI Bilingual - with Personal Data
There is increasing evidence that there is an interdisciplinary need in higher education to help students learn how to work with data in their disciplines. The President of MIT, Rafael Reif, called on the United States this past Monday…
Marketing: An Author's Perspective
Maggie Way is a bestselling author from Australia who agreed to answer some questions about her perspective on digital marketing. She wrote the Entangle Me romance series, and has a new book out entitled Heart of Thorne. To learn more,…
Artificial Intelligence Impact on Business Jobs
This simple analysis discusses the likely impact of automation and AI (artificial intelligence) on job market in four sample business areas: Accounting/Finance, Marketing/Analytics, Entrepreneurship and Human Resources. The article also…
Ramadan Mubarak, SAMS Zakat
This is article is a greeting of respect for my Muslim colleagues and friends, and an invitation during the month of Ramadan for anyone to consider supporting the work of the Syrian American Medical Society as Zakat. If you aren't…
Top Things to Know about Amazon and Ecommerce
In digital marketing, it's good to be familiar with the stats. Here’s some of the latest. Amazon Amazon is the destination of choice for much comparison shopping, thanks to the retailer’s reputation for price-competitiveness, as well as…
Don’t Delay, No One Can Say (How Soon AI Will Take Jobs Away)
Don’t delay on learning about these issues. But don’t be alarmed, or intimidated. (I’ll explain why later.) In order to hopefully get your attention, here are two articles that have influenced my perspective and raised my alertness…
Thank you, Syria
I wanted to celebrate my birthday today by taking a picture with my friend Dr. Mufaddal Hamadeh, and this picture is a celebration of friendship, in honor of all people of Syrian descent, as well as my friends, colleagues, acquaintances…
Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Poverty
This is the text of an email I sent to Sam Altman at Ycombinator, and I wanted to share on Linkedin and see if you had any thoughts. It's an update on my thinking in the area of helping displaced workers, taking into account recent…
Aleppo is Being Destroyed by the Silence of the World
It is the top trending hashtag on Twitter, see CNN article. http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/13/world/aleppo-destroyed-by-worlds-silence-twitter/index.html If you do not want to remain silent, I urge you to take a few minutes out of your day…
Herding Cats: Keeping Up with Social Messaging Apps
In the digital marketing classes I teach at Benedictine University, one of the challenges of maintaining a digital marketing curriculum is keeping up with the changes. One of the fundamental shifts underway over the last few years has…
How to Help ISIS Victims: Support Orgs Who Help Them
On Saturday I saw a NY Times article ( http://tinyurl.com/nyt-isis ) on how ISIS treats slave women, and by Sunday I had obtained a Google grant for Yazda.org, mentioned in the article. The Google grant will provide Yazda with…
Overcoming Publisher's Block
These days it's getting easier to self-publish. It's one thing to write - but then what? We can overcome writer's and publisher's block by setting out to put some of the proceeds towards making the world better. This is what helped me…
Social Media Bubble
I think we may be looking at a probable social media bubble. What do you think? My background and bias: I wrote one of the first books on social media (for beginners), have worked in social media marketing, and teach social media…
April 9th, 1940 - Hitler Invades Norway
April 9th, 1940 - Hitler Invades Norway - Today is the 75th anniversary of the invasion of Norway. I've decided to release a short novel into the wild about the Battle of Britain to help people > teachers > students to learn about how…
2 Videos to understand Google
2 short videos I found helpful to understand how Google works and an intro to Webmaster Tools.
Make It Personal: Custom Google Maps with Pictures
Recently I came across a custom Google Map on Goodwill 's website that I was impressed with, which catches your eye, because unlike most Google maps, you actually see peoples' faces. It drew me in, I clicked on a map marker, and read…
What the Heck is Marketing Automation?
A simple introduction and some suggestions for exploring marketing automation. At some point you may come across the concept of marketing automation, which is increasingly becoming affordable and usable for businesses and organizations…
M-STEM: The Future of Higher Ed?
Several species within Higher Education are in danger of becoming extinct. Some argue evolution is always for the better; yet most for-profit colleges run mostly by the numbers, and the blind spot is communication and remembering from…