May 20, 2025 | AI, Internet
I’ve written about how AI is great and AI research will change the world and you should use it to plan your trips, while cheerleaders kick up their heels and wave their pom poms, rah rah sis boom bah. That’s part of the story. I don’t apologize a bit for being a...
May 6, 2025 | AI, Android, Apple, Chrome, Google, search
AI is taking over online searches. At the moment, that’s good news – the AI summaries are increasingly reliable and helpful. In the long term, they might be so good that paradoxically, they contribute to the enshittification of the internet. It’s a big,...
Mar 25, 2025 | AI, business, law
Breaking news: Artificial intelligence is going to reshape the legal industry again, for the first time. Way back in 2011, the New York Times looked at the advent of e-discovery software and declared in its headline, “Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper...
Mar 4, 2025 | AI, Azure, business, Microsoft, search
In the last article I talked about AI and searching for stuff in big companies. Employees will be able to use AI to get answers drawn from all the different places that information is stored – files, databases, email and calendars, Teams chats, all the rest. The...
Feb 25, 2025 | AI, search
Searches in our files and emails are painful. We’re used to it now. We all play the game of trying to remember some key word that will pull up just the right file except it doesn’t, or the appointment last year that will clear up some mystery if we can just find it on...
Feb 11, 2025 | AI, Google, Microsoft
Psychologists use various terms to describe disorganized speech. “Word salad” – words and concepts so disconnected that there is no logical thread. “Neologisms” – made up words that have no literal meaning. “Loose association” – associations that are...
