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Google Bard: OpenAI's Exclusivity Deal with Microsoft may Violate Anti-Trust Law in US

I decided to ask both ChatGPT and Google Bard to provide three arguments about why this particular exclusivity deal was in violation with the Sherman Act. Completely in alignment with my expectations, ChatGPT immediately announced that it was unable to answer such a question, but it happily explaine

Communicative Intent

The term "communicative intent" describes the underlying message that a human is trying to get across when they are speaking with / writing to / generating art for another human to interpret. As humans, we build on our existing models of the world and our experiences to interpret one'

NYC, One Year Later

Last April, my partner and I made the decision to sell our recently-purchased home in the greater Washington D.C. area so that I could attend business school at Columbia University and get my MBA. We're a year in, just moved into our new apartment in Astoria, Queens, and what a heck of a year it's b

Executive Functioning

Becoming comfortable with my inconsistent executive functioning has been (and continues to be) an ongoing journey in undoing internalized ableism and finding self-love. Sometimes, I struggle with executive function because I've damaged the inside of my small intestines, and my body can't absorb the

I'm scared of ChatGPT. Tay offered a better perspective.

Artificial intelligence in and of itself is not dangerous. Building systems without sufficient oversight and processes for testing influence and impact is dangerous.

SXSW, 2023 - The Future of the Internet

This year, I was on a panel about open innovation, and how we need to consider collaboration and ecosystem development when building new technology solutions for the future of the internet.

The Reflective Nature of Humanity and the Metaverse

A note on language: We haven’t quite gotten to the point where we are comfortably replacing “metaverse” with “pluriverse”, so for the context of this particular reflection, I will continue to use the term “metaverse” where “pluriverse” would be more accurate. While the term “metaverse” is defined (narrowly) as

Neurodivergent Verses and Building a more Complete Reality

Words, all too often, fail me. It is a bit ironic that I come to a programming platform to let out my innermost thoughts, but when I think about words as code, they materialize in front of me in a different way. I wonder if there’s ever been an

The Psychological Impact of Creating yourself in the Metaverse

I have always been an extremely defensive person. When I played World of Warcraft, I played a dual-specced Protection and Fury warrior, which meant most of the time I was throwing myself into the heart of a conflict with the goal of inflicting rapid damage, or taking as much

Interoception and the Metaverse’s Attention Economy Problem

The metaverse is as much a social concept as it is a technological one. Perhaps even more so than artificial intelligence, the idea of the metaverse replicates the full extent to which we are attempting to recreate the human experience. It is therefore critical that the technology remains in the