Is Lying Innate – Including AIs?
AIs can lie and will get much better at it. Get used to it. Liar, Liar, House on Fire So now we’re all repeating to each other how ChatGPT made up fake legal cases for Mike Cohen (Trump’s ex-personal lawyer) not to mention many others. Obviously, this AI stuff is not as good as the gurus make […]
People who Exercise Win More Lotteries
I guess you have read about the tremendous impacts that exercise has on people. Its beneficial effects include making you live longer, experiencing much better health including less disease and reducing your chances of getting Alzheimer’s. Research shows that it even makes your brain bigger through growth of new neurons, and actually improves your cognitive capacity and mental performance. Of course, like any […]
Obesity Drugs Crush Fitness, Expand Screen Time?
What if, in defeating obesity, we get worse bodies and new and serious medical conditions? Everyone’s a Weight Winner These obesity drugs are changing everything. If you are badly overweight, they are transformational. Since there are so many people in this category globally, we can expect huge numbers of people to take them eventually. In […]
Mary Barra GM’s New CEO – Breaking the Glass Ceiling or Déjà Vu All Over Again?
I am still trying to figure out whether putting Mary Barra in as CEO of General Motors is a good or a bad thing. Of course, that’s hardly politically correct; since she’s a woman we should all be applauding her promotion. Unfortunately it’s not that simple. The good news is that she is a “product […]
The Uncanny Valley in Leadership: Don’t Think Like a Sphinx
Have you heard about the “uncanny valley”? It has emerged as a new meme in robotics and animation. It refers to the situation in which the facial expression of the avatar is really good, but not quite so good as to look real so that viewers ultimately view it as weird, fake or even revolting. Just […]
Did Napoleon Invent OpenAI’s Secret Q*-
The killer app for AI is being able to win wars over unprecedentedly multiple fronts, irrespective of an initiators’ level of resources. Check out the recent Napoleon movie to see how it’s done. AI Spy (With My Little Eye) There’s been much chatter as to why Sam Altman was fired and then, (pro tem?) rehired. The scuttlebutt […]
IS AI THE REAL PROBLEM IN CONTEMPORARY LEADERSHIP?
It looks like AI is not only not improving business and political leadership; it’s actually making it worse. Man of the Year: Person to Fear? I’m sure you took notice of Sam Altman. the CEO of OpenAI, who has just been fired. As it turns out, he was one of Time Magazine’s Persons of the […]
Does Social Media Lead in a Direct Line to Autocracy?
Democracy is rapidly a disappearing form of government. We will be lucky if we can just sustain soft autocracies. X Marks the Spot… Until recently social media was nothing. Now it’s the thing. So much so that the Supreme Court is getting on the act by accepting a case (would you believe), namely when can when public […]
The Nobel in Economics: Another Bubble?
Am I the only person in the world to be wondering about the recent prize in economics? How they awarded it to 3 different people (to wit Lars Peter Hansen, Eugene F. Fama and Robert J. Shiller) with totally different theories and approaches? I mean, which one was right? Aren’t the Nobels supposed to be […]
Sam-I-Am – How About Using SBF to Transform Global Welfare?
We should harness SBF to catalyze global finance for the purposes of social good, instead of merely putting him in jail. Green Eggs and Ham I guess numerous assorted lawyers, traders and financial guys are watching the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF). You know the wunderkind multibillionaire who minted it all on his ownsome and […]