Imagine this. There’s a knock at your door. You open it. And there stands someone you don’t know. And he says: “Can I come in?” Well, what do you do? I think you’d probably want to know a bit more about them before you let them in, right? But imagine that when you open the […]
Lego Bricks are often used as an analogy to explain the way that an ExoBrain works. I am pretty sure that most of you have some idea of what is meant by the Lego Brick references you see in the material you study. But let me give you a programmer’s viewpoint on this. Before I […]
Firstly, let’s make sure we are all on the same page with regard to this topic. When we say, “AI”, what do we mean? When I think of Artificial Intelligence, I immediately think of the robots that Isaac Asimov wrote about in his 1940’s and 50’s science fiction novels and short stories. I’m a particular […]
The first PC I owned had two floppy disc drives. You had to have two drives, because you put your program disc in the left drive and your data disc in the right one. You see, there was no main hard drive, or storage disc, as we have today. Let me show you: You can […]
People remember all sorts of things. We do it automatically. If you walk out of the local store into the rain, and slip on an oily patch in the carpark, you fall over. And there are all sorts of things that you can recall about this after the fact: And you don’t need to stop […]
Peter wrote a set of Laws of Computing some time ago and one of those laws is the Ease-of-Use Law. Let me quote it to you: “Ease of use is what you do not have to do, in order to do what you want to do.” This is actually law 19 of a total of […]
There is a fundamental difference between the way that ExoTech translates spoken commands into computer actions, and the way that everyone else does it. Now – pay attention children, because this is one of the things that sets us completely apart from everyone else! If you can get this one across to people that you […]
OK – so who says that computers are stupid? Almost everyone does, at some stage in their relationship with these technological monsters. And the main reason we call them stupid is that they do not respond or react in the same way that people do. And that’s because they do not manage data in the […]
Shawn gave an excellent presentation a couple of weeks ago on this new thing on the technology front, called ChatGPT. The first thing I would say about this is that they need to find a better name for it. I mean, ChatGPT??? Now, the big question is, how does the launch of this “amazing” product […]
I want to tell you a little story. In the early 1950s, the British government thought they would run out of coal in 20 years or so. Coal was the main source of energy in Britain at the time. Nearly all of their electricity was produced in coal-fired power stations. We all know now that […]