AI - An Inside Take (AI Developer Interview)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf2KFVcKQdQ

A self confessed nerdy AI enthusiast (saying which, I have a lot of empathy and respect for) who I would call at teh top of his games was at the leading edge, being completely honest about the hype and dangers of AI. Also being very honest about how little we know about their workings. Computer Science knowledge of ANN makes Physicists look good (as they guess about Dark Matter and Dark Energy). 

Diary of a CEO: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! (Well you certainly got my attention)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw

Wargames that Teach Leadership - Extraordinary college

A friend pointed me to this interesting site (see below, it immediately caught my attention with the novel use of egg timers next to the counter bases):  

I suggest you take a look yourself (see link below): 

https://www.extraordinary.college/tin-soldiers-iron-wills/

The scenarios looked appealing:

• The Battle of Luethen
• A Special Forces "smash and grab" from a train behind enemy lines
• A successful Viking raid is confronted with a Saxon Shieldwall between it and its longship home
• A Three Musketeers "look out for your friends" escapade

Interesting, although I cannot afford teh price of the games!

 

Note to Self: Following this person ... Hannah Fry (Sceience)

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iz6zFt7G3Kc

Interesting Science Info Youtube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/@fryrsquared/shorts

Hannah Fry: Cambridge Mathematician, Science Evangeliser

Note: Panzer Taster - Please avoid the wargamer cringe at the beginning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkSZN-Zs9No

Yes, I may even forgive her for showing images of a T-80, Pz I and a Pz IV Short 75mm which definitely were not worrying Allied planners in 1944) because she is a brilliant mathematics and science educator.

PS: I completely agree with her on the negative hypothesis on AI Agents. 

Note to Self: Need to try out "Bloody Big Battle" sometime (Franco Prussian War)

https://www.northstarfigures.com/list.php?man=296&cat=140&page=1

Possibly for use in a Franco-Prussian 15mm Campaign I always said I would do! 

Note to Self: Interesting Blog - Stephen Balagan

https://balagan.info/

What's Going on with the Internet?

Ok so I am back blogging but I cannot understand the statistics (see below, why the spike when I was posting any new stuff?): 

So .. I think .. "There is weird stuff going on all over the Internet! Again see my blog's stats. Now remember - given the fact that I really stopped posting - not much in the last six months (from over 100+ posts to less that 20 year) and I have just started posting in earnest again (as a diary without mass interest content).These stats do not reflect interest in my blog but I propose rather a "scraping" of the blog sphere and Internet in general! Where did a 300k viewing audience come from since March - given I only have 243 followers (of which only about an estimated 60 or so I would call actively viewing new posts)!"

OK bloggers - anybody else see this pattern? Is it all those AI Large Language Models (LLMs) trying to get stupidly clever?