AI By Michael A. Covington Malfunctioning AI can hurt people. Preventing harm isn’t easy. To detect automatically whether an AI system is giving people bad advice, for instance, you’d need an AI that is smarter than the original one; and if you had it, you’d have used it in the first place. You see the […]

AI By Michael A. Covington Can we even measure it? That’s a hot question now. An article by E.K. Chen and others in the world’s top science journal, Nature, says AI has achieved human-level intelligence. We need to measure AI intelligence not only to test that claim, but also to tell whether one AI is […]

AI By Michael A. Covington We are never going to live in a world in which generative AI hasn’t been invented. People will have to get used to it, and the big thing to get used to will not be its computational power and usefulness, but rather the ability to communicate with computers in human […]

ISSUE 23.03 • 2026-01-19 AI By Michael A. Covington It’s easier than you might think to run LLMs (large language models) locally on your own PC, without connecting to a server. There are three reasons you might want to do so: to keep your data private, to avoid costs, and to avoid depending on commercial […]

ISSUE 22.45 • 2025-11-10 Look for our BONUS issue on November 17, 2025!! AI By Michael A. Covington Yes, I mean 2025. We all know there was a paradigm shift in 2022–23, when AI suddenly came to mean generative LLM chatbots rather than machine learning or rule-based deduction, and people’s idea of what computers could […]