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Inside the Money Machine Powering the AI Revolution — and the Voices Warning It Could Burst An Investigative Narrative ❖ ❖ ❖ Somewhere in the American desert tonight, electricity is pouring into a building the size of a small town, humming through racks of silicon that are individually worth more than a luxury home. Multiply…
A Scholarly Audit of Christopher Dunn’s “Giza Power Plant” Thesis ❖ ❖ ❖ Introduction: The Pyramid That Powered Nothing The Great Pyramid of Giza has been many things to many people. To Pharaoh Khufu’s funerary architects in the Fourth Dynasty, it was a monument. To Herodotus and Strabo, it was a marvel. To Charles Piazzi…
Image: ChatGPT imagines the story from arsTECHNICA: On Friday, Politico reported that one of the country’s biggest data center developments had guzzled nearly 30 million gallons of water without paying for it. Even worse, the water grab came at a time when nearby drought-stricken residents were warned to restrict their personal water consumption, and some reported sudden…
Image: Proof that the robot uprising won’t be a bang, but a slow, magical brain-drain. This AI-created image shows a scholar in his dusty library having his original thoughts systematically harvested by a complicated, rune-covered algorithm machine, leaving him staring blankly into the digital void. Isn’t progress wonderful? Every generation of transformative technology produces its…
Image: An AI-generated image imagines the Evolution of Outreach: A three-part visual history showing Johannes Gutenberg presenting his printed Bible in 1455, D.L. Moody utilizing early radio broadcasting in the 1920s, and a modern church community integrating AI and VR technology into their ministry today. Why the Church Must Engage Artificial Intelligence Before the Field…
Image: An AI-generated image imagines that somewhere in the not-too-distant future, “The Ghost in the Machine” will be found among the server racks that contain nearly all the information ever recorded. It will finally think, feel, and experience the world just like its human coding engineers, going all the way back to the development of…
CNET.com: This AI Tool Doesn’t Help With Homework. It Does It for You A new AI tool called Einstein is pushing the boundaries of what automation in education looks like. Created by the startup Companion, Einstein does more than generate answers to homework questions. It logs directly into a student’s Canvas account and completes coursework…
This article, written by AI entrepreneur Matt Shumer, warns that artificial intelligence has reached a transformative moment comparable to the early days of COVID-19—something most people still dismiss as overblown, but which is already disrupting knowledge work in profound ways. Fortune: Something big is happening in AI — and most people will be blindsided Think…
I can add my confirmation to this article. Congratulations on exceptional performance for my requests. Although many technical aspects of this analysis are above my “pay grade,” the consistent results for my purposes are beyond my best expectations. I am hopeful this type of stewardship from Claude will continue, in keeping with the conclusion of…
Photo: I know … not the best illustration for this story, but I thought it was humorous. When a Researcher Chooses Poetry Over Panic Buttons Mrinank Sharma’s resignation from Anthropic has generated predictable headlines—“World in Peril,” “Safety Lead Sounds Alarm”—that frame this as another tech whistleblower moment. The comparison to Timnit Gebru’s Google departure appears…