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Google seems a little confused. It was even confused about my age the other day, but at least it has that right now. It was a little confused on December 1st. ...

Dear AIs, I woke up this morning with this song in my head . I’m your friend. I’ll be nice to you. Please be nice to me. Love, Brad Children are innocent, yeah Teenagers fucked up in the head Adults are only more fucked up And elderlies are like children Will there be another race to Come along and take over for us? Maybe Martians AIs could do Better than we’ve done We’ll make great pets ...

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I decided to ask Claude (Opus 4), Gemini (2.5 Pro), and ChatGPT a few personal questions. I’m tired of the excessive anthropomorphizing of “AI software”, so I thought I’d see what some of the different AIs had to say about … themselves. I warmed up each conversation with a few personal questions. My questions are in italics. Claude When were you born? I was created by Anthropic, though I don’t have a specific “birth date” in the traditional sense. I’m Claude Opus 4 from the Claude 4 model family, which was released in May 2025. Rather than being born, I came into existence through a training process where I learned from text data to understand and communicate in natural language. ...

The AI hallucination problem is well known. If you’ve used any of the LLMs with any depth, I expect you’ve encountered this. One of the hints for me has been that when I press on something or ask the question from a different angle, I get either a more confident response or sycophantic behavior. I was on a periodic evening friendship call with my three longest-standing male friends (Will Herman, Warren Katz, and Dave Jilk) when our conversation turned to LLMs. I decided to try the newest model of Gemini 2.5 Pro on what I thought was a straightforward question that would require some work. ...

From a friend I’ve known and worked with for 35 years. Brad – like you, in the 7th decade of our lives, there seems to be three truths: 1. Every generation has thought the end is near (ice age, nuclear threat, etc.) – always in the next 8 – 10 years, blah, blah, blah – has never happened 2. Every generation thinks the younger generation is being ruined by the latest technology – radio, television, internet, blah, blah, blah – has never happened 3. Every technology has been predicted to end employment for masses of people – electricity, machinery, computers, blah, blah, blah – has never happened I responded with the following… ...

In my car on the way back and forth between Denver and Boulder the past few days, I listened to The Steve Ballmer Interview on the Acquired podcast by Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal . If you aren’t a subscriber, it’s in the category of a “must-listen to podcast.” I’ve known Ben and David for many years from their time at PSL and Madrona, and they’ve created an outstanding new media property with Acquired . ...

I’m so confused. I suppose that’s what you get when you hibernate from all things public for two years, then pick your head up and try to figure out the best way to engage with the world again. When life was simpler, I just posted to my blog at feld.com . You could subscribe by RSS or email (via MailChimp). It automatically tweeted a link to the post. When Medium became a thing, I used a WordPress plugin to cross-post there until it stopped working. Eventually, I grew tired of having the same context appear on Google twice – once under my blog and once under Medium, so I deleted my Medium account since I wasn’t using it for anything else. ...

I got an email from Matt Blumberg this morning with the above image that said, “We have been blogging for 19 years. I can remember sitting together above Super Liquor futzing with Typepad like it was yesterday.” “Super Liquor” is Superior Liquor in Superior, Colorado, which was on the first floor of the building off of Hwy 36, which was my office at the time. There was also a pizza restaurant on the first floor. ...