Skip to main content
Tag

artificial intelligence

Jun 04
Love136

The Answer to AI is IA and the Three-Pound Organ

By Energy Rant No Comments
Artificial intelligence is reordering society in many ways. Last week, I wrote, "We may not be getting dumber, but we're demonstrably becoming more dependent on technology, less innovative, and less creative." Since then, I have read this interesting article from Bloomberg: Does College Still Have a Purpose in the Age of ChatGPT? College students are kicking back and tasking AI to write term papers and essays while their lazy counterparts, the professors or teaching assistants, feed the papers into AI grinders to evaluate and grade the papers. "It's an untenable situation: computers grading papers written by computers, students and professors…
Read More
May 27
Love135

AI, Nukes, and the Entropic Vortex

By Energy Rant No Comments
Last week, I lamented permanent tax credits that balloon the national debt, drive up interest rates, and exponentially increase borrowing costs. Two things have happened since: The House passed its version of the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (OBBBA), which took the shears to "clean energy" and storage tax credits (except for sacrosanct ethanol), and Due to the ineffectiveness of the bill in slashing the deficit, the premium on the 10-year treasury over short-term maturity securities has increased to its highest level in 11 years. The rate on the 30-year treasury is at its highest in 20 years. These higher…
Read More
Apr 21
Love131

Fanatical Execution Beats the Box

By Energy Rant No Comments
Did you notice the lights flickering or dimming around noon on Saturday? That was me stomping on the AI gas pedals to inspire this week’s edition of the Energy Rant. I asked ChatGPT for an example of thinking outside the box, which, duh, is precisely what artificial intelligence cannot do worth a hoot. It only brings solutions within the massive data set from which it has to draw. Outside the Box I asked, “Give me an example of thinking outside the box.” It gave me the nine-dot puzzle, which many or most of you have already seen: Challenge: Connect all…
Read More
Apr 08
Love129

AI, Manufacturing, and The Bridge Out Ahead

By Energy Rant No Comments
President Trump plans to remake the world economy, and he's not going to flinch on the tariffs he leveled on "liberation day," April 2, 2025. The man is resolute, noting for 40 years that the United States has been "ripped off" by nations around the globe. Here are links to his appearances on Larry King Live in 1987 and the Oprah in 1988, illustrating he hasn't changed his mind. How do the tariffs work? According to Axios, it's simple – each country's trade deficit is divided by exports to the United States, divided by two, with a minimum of 10%.…
Read More
Feb 11
Love119

Trump’s Energy Emergency – A Mystic’s Perspective

By Energy Rant No Comments
Last week, I described elements of Trump's Unleashing American Energy executive order. It: Expands oil and gas exploration on federal lands Promotes mining and recovery of rare and exotic earth minerals for manufacturing leadership Targets federal spending on electric car infrastructure and EV mandates Something about lightbulb and appliance standards that is OBE (overtaken by events) Pauses spending for portions of the Investment Reduction Act (IRA) and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) I surmised that this EO only affects spending in the short term. Tax deductions and credits cannot be signed away with the President's Sharpie Armada without Congressional…
Read More
Oct 02
Love47

Using AI With Caution

By Energy Rant No Comments
Last week, I presented some findings that artificial intelligence can churn out dozens of product ideas in a fraction of the time humans can deliver. The AI bots provide higher-ranking ideas, so long as the criteria are defined, and the bot stays in the box. I also provided excerpts from a “help” chatbot that delivered no help but successfully raised my heart rate and blood pressure. Use It or Lose It Smartphones and computerized anything can make us dumber, less capable, vulnerable to power or network outages, and even bad directions. Last week, for example, I regretted turning navigation over…
Read More
Jul 10
Love36
Image shows graphic of tech and a brain.

AI – Where Tech Ends and Winning Begins

By Energy Rant No Comments
McDonald’s McNuggets I picked up an iPhone at the Verizon store for my mother last week as I visited her in Northwest Iowa. She’s wheelchair-bound with one good hand for daily functions such as eating. After the iPhone pickup, I decided to get some lunch for us at McDonald’s, and although I love McDonald’s hamburgers, I hadn’t been in one of their stores for a while. I guess the machines have mostly taken over – order at the in-store kiosk or online with an app. As I navigated that process, I thought, this is fantastic – another brick in the…
Read More
Dec 09
Love0
Pre and Post kW versus Time

Fly Balls, Fast Drives, And Fault Detection Diagnostics

By Energy Rant No Comments
For those of you who are not doctors or veterinarians for our beloved pets, have you ever been in an exam room when the technician brings in X-RAY results and posts them on the backlit thing and leaves you alone with them before the doctor arrives? I was in this situation a year or two ago. Looking at the image was like reading brail with my eyes – but that doesn’t stop me from trying. Oooh, what is that? Is this a problem? Is that out of whack? The doctor blew over what I was looking at because I was…
Read More