Tag: AI

This AIn’t your grandpappy’s new technology

Chris Johnson | Posted on September 10, 2026 |

Many of us grew up seeing artificial intelligence and robots featured on fictional TV shows and movies. There was Robot on “Lost in Space” waving his arms around and yelling, “Danger, Will Robinson!” and “Why are you wearing pajamas all the time, Will Robinson?” Then came Rosie on “The Jetsons,” who was basically a tall Roomba who cleaned the house and talked like Wilma Flintstone (for good reason). And my generation fell in love with C-3PO and R2-D2 from “Star Wars” in the ’70s before falling in love with Princess Leia in the gold bikini in the ’80s. Those characters […]

Facebook doesn’t know satire from lies, and your crazy uncle is confused

Chris Johnson | Posted on August 16, 2024 |

You may have noticed there’s an awful lot of fake stuff floating around on social media lately, especially on Facebook. If you haven’t noticed it, you might be one of the millions of gullible folks who believe anything. Even Donald Trump, that guardian of all that is true and holy, recently shared a post on his Truth Social account claiming that his opponent (whom he hilariously calls names like Kamabla) had a rally at an airport where “nobody” showed up and that her campaign created an AI image falsely showing thousands of people there. Again, he insisted “nobody” was there. […]

If y’all would stop being so gullible, that’d be just super-duper

Chris Johnson | Posted on September 21, 2023 |

There was a day and age when you could turn on the television and know that whatever you saw was absolutely 100 percent true — Walter Cronkite’s news, Oral Roberts’ warnings that God was gonna take him if you didn’t send enough cash, Georgia Championship Wrestling matches, and, most terrifyingly, that some weirdo named Mr. Whipple was going to accost you if you squeezed toilet paper at the grocery store. To this day, you still won’t find me squeezing toilet paper at the store. Today, though, we have 347 channels. In many ways, that can be a good thing. But […]

At least my sliver of intelligence ain’t artificial

Chris Johnson | Posted on August 29, 2023 |

(Photo: “Ex Machina,” 2014) Every day, I’m bombarded in the communications business about new ways I can use artificial intelligence to make my job easier. However, about the only artificial intelligence I truly enjoy is the AI that helps filter the emails about AI into my spam folder. I’m just not interested. I know there are a lot of folks sounding the alarm about how AI has the potential to steal all our jobs, take over the world and eventually wipe all of us humans off the face of the Earth. But I’m here to be the voice of reason […]

AI does have some exciting possibilities; just ask Yul Brynner and Dianne Feinstein

Chris Johnson | Posted on April 18, 2023 |

A lot of folks — well, mainly Tucker Carlson and an almost lifelike, doughy robot named Elon Musk — are very worried about AI (Artificial Intelligence) taking over the world and destroying humanity … as if humans weren’t entirely capable of doing it themselves. Yes, they’re terrified of AI but think climate change — something that is verifiable and measurable — is a hoax and quite humorous. I’m not terrified of climate change or AI. Yes, I know climate change is real, but I’m teaching my grandchildren to swim so that they can handle sea level rise even after they […]