My son Cole, pictured here as a goofy kid many years ago, is now six feet six inches tall and in college. Cole needed a letter of recommendation recently so he turned to an old family friend who, in turn, used ChatGPT to generate the letter, which he thought was remarkably good. As a guy who pretends to write for a living, I read it differently. ChatGPT’s letter was facile but empty, the type of letter you would write for someone you’d never met. It said almost nothing about Cole other th...| www.cringely.com
Sorry I’ve been away: time flies when you are not having fun. But now I’m back. Moore’s Law, which began with a random observation by the late Intel co-founder Gordon Moore that transistor densities on silicon substrates were doubling every 18 months, has over the intervening 60+ years been both borne-out yet also changed from a lithography technical feature to an economic law. It’s getting harder to etch ever-thinner lines, so we’ve taken as a culture to emphasizing the cost part o...| I, Cringely
Google trained us how to write queries but we really need prompts| I, Cringely
What would Steve (Jobs) say about Apple's Vision Pro headset? Steve would call the Vision Pro a “hobby,” just as he did with the original Apple TV.| I, Cringely
This Too Shall Pass| I, Cringely
Who knew replicating Silicon Valley would come down to curriculum?| I, Cringely