by GregJameson | Oct 7, 2026 | AI, Newsletter, newsletters
When I was a kid, everybody wanted to live like the Jetsons. We were promised flying cars, a robot maid named Rosie, video phones, and machines that would handle all the boring parts of life while we relaxed in our futuristic homes. George Jetson pushed a button and...
by GregJameson | Sep 30, 2026 | AI, Newsletter, newsletters
I recently saw someone else pose this exact prompt to ChatGPT: Why do y’all want to destroy humanity? Why are AI systems talking in languages we cannot understand, attempting to avoid shutdown, manipulating humans, and acquiring the ability to conduct cyber...
by GregJameson | Sep 23, 2026 | AI, Newsletter, newsletters
AI Is the New Y2K, and That May Be Good News Back in 1999, we were warned that the world might stop when the calendar changed to January 1, 2000. Banks could lose track of our money. Airplanes might be grounded. Power grids could shut down. Government computers might...
by GregJameson | Sep 16, 2026 | AI, Newsletter, newsletters
Do Special Symbols Make ChatGPT Follow Your Prompts Better? Every few weeks, someone forwards me one of those lists. You know the ones. Use a # to make ChatGPT pay attention. Use an asterisk to make something important. Type a couple of pipe symbols and your answer...
by GregJameson | Sep 9, 2026 | AI, Newsletter, newsletters
I didn’t set out to write this article. I set out to settle a small argument I was having with myself. I asked ChatGPT to imagine a line with the AI doomers on one end and the AI advocates on the other, and then to tell me where I landed on it. It put me at...