It's weird, if I think of AI as Artificial Intelligence I get annoyed at how incredibly stupid it is. If I think of it as Artificial Intuition, I'm suddenly using it constantly and integrating it into everything.

I know what AI is, but I can still be surprised. Starting each time with a clear chat history, I asked Co-Pilot to pick a number from 1 to 100, same number every time. No suprise, added a period, got a different number.

Dark Lord was a single Apple/C64 game, but the engine behind it *almost* spawned multiple games. Broderbund was to do a haunted house game and Electronic Arts contracted @paul_reiche to do a time travel epic. Alas the market collapsed and it was all canceled.

AI as a technique is awesome and advancing quickly, but it's not quite ready for some tasks.. wdrb.com/news/venecky-instea…

I know AI is sort of random, but damn Google you're so much worse with AI. Just got this response.. "Because compact builds can be tight, 32GB kits featuring tight timings are the ideal choice."

I love when technology solves a rare (for me) task. I recently needed to bring 100 year old mono recordings up to multi-track. Did it with the new Intel AI plug-in for Audacity. Worked great and I could move on to the next thing. AI certainly crushes it for some applications.

Which is faster 32-bit or 64-bit apps? Ten years ago it was 32-bit apps, but today, it's 64-bit apps. Better CPUs with larger caches and compilers that make smart use of the extra registers in 64-bit mode offset the slight disadvantage of larger pointers and larger executables.

Dark Lord is almost 40 years old and is still getting positive reviews. This playthrough meanders long enough for the sun to set, which was an uncommon feature for an adventure game. youtube.com/watch?v=7KnkYcll…

I like AI for programming. It can do the boring stuff, and when it fails, it usually got close enough for a quick fix. I still don't trust it for high performance tasks, aligning cache usage between cores, fixed point math, inline SMD assembly, stuff that I really like doing.

AI is getting better at code, although it is picking up some of the bloatware mindset of the training data. Visual Studio's compiling is getting more optimized as well. I wonder if they're using AI to optimize the compiler output?

Can you tell which image from my 80's Animated Adventure game Dark Lord has been enhanced with AI?

It must be rare to have a subwoofer. Watched the Artimis launch, no rumble. Watched a press briefing, and my dishes rattled on every 'p'. News can do better.

Dark Lord: An Animated Adventure opened with a ticking clock in an old secret room. Even in the 80's, ticking clocks were rare as silent quartz movements replaced almost all mechanical clocks in the 70's. Now the game itself is more of a dinosaur than ticking clocks.

The villain in my Apple ][ adventure game Dark Lord was named Lord Nequam. This was before the internet so I used a 400 year old Latin dictionary. Nequam means worthless, good for nothing · [of character] worthless, vile, bad.

Dear Alexa+, I'm curious. I buy weird and random stuff. I don't need a running commentary with pointless speculation. You're worse than that one Costco receipt checker.

If you really care about lighting and spend a crazy amount on it, are you a photonophile?

The LLMs are the least amazing thing AI can do. They're pretty worthless for serious stuff, but man are they fun. You can now easily build all the computers in the original Star Trek and then argue with them like Kirk. Only they'll agree they're illogical and not blow up.

Siri seems to have taken an expert system approach. It's now listing sources and quoting directly when you ask a question. Alexa+ is doing the opposite and is now LLM dumb. It's wrong a lot. Luckily it's still beta. I like some things about it, but it's frustrating.

I use to enjoy those early dongles. They would usually just have some TTL logic chips etched clean and encased in resin. The perfect item to black box. When I cracked one, I would delete the code and move on. Lots of fun.

Why so many robot dogs and no robot cats? A robot cat could climb up the side of a building, jump off the other side, and land on it's feet. At least when it wasn't knocking stuff off tables.