Scientists Get Serious in the Search for a Working Warp Drive (msn.com) Scientists have longed for some sort of technology that can propel humans faster than what physics says is possible, and no...
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2024/05/01/a-new-frontier-might-be-required/
DARPA unleashes 20-foot autonomous robo-tank with glowing green eyes | TechSpot The Pentagon’s mad scientists have been cooking up a beast of an unmanned combat vehicle, and it just took a majo...
Researchers create artificial cells that act like living cells (phys.org) In a new study published in Nature Chemistry, UNC-Chapel Hill researcher Ronit Freeman and her colleagues describe the st...
I have long had an interest in getting solar energy from space to earth. About a year ago I read Japan was working toward that goal. They are making progress.
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2024/04/21/progress-on-getting-solar-energy-from-space/
Wow! If true, this is fascinating. Universal vaccine may be effective against any variant of any virus (msn.com) Scientists at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) has recently developed...
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2024/04/21/a-golden-age-of-vaccines/
Quote of the Day To see how AI chatbots fit in this ideological scale, we asked the 20 chatbots whether they strongly disagree, disagree, are undecided/neutral, agree, or strongly agree with nine...
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2024/03/27/measuring-the-liberal-bias-of-ai/
Quote of the Day Disabling cyberattacks are striking water and wastewater systems throughout the United States. These attacks have the potential to disrupt the critical lifeline of clean and safe...
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2024/03/24/cyber-attacks-on-water-systems/
I made the same request to four different AIs, “Please tell me about Boomershoot.” The AIs were Meta AI (via WhatsApp), Gab AI, Google Gemini, and Microsoft’s Copilot. Only Copilot did not ...
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2024/03/23/ai-responses-to-please-tell-me-about-boomershoot/
I was chatting with Microsoft’s Copilot again this evening. It insisted we needed to move on to a new topic when I asked it for the Boomershoot target recipe. I then had this conversation: Joe ...
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2024/03/20/consulting-copilot-on-boomershoot-targets/
Rather than just using words to dance around the issue of private gun ownership I asked it to create graph. Joe: Please create a graph showing the violent crime rate on the y-axis and the level o...
I tested Microsoft’s AI, Copilot on violent crime and restrictions on private gun ownership. It refused to admit the obvious correlation. Joe: What county in the US has the highest violent crim...
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2024/03/18/copilot-on-a-pragmatic-approach-to-private-gun-ownership/
I tested Microsoft’s AI, Copilot on the 2nd Amendment. It could not seem to get its story straight. Joe: What are some arguments for the private ownership of guns? Copilot: Certainly! Here are ...
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2024/03/18/copilot-caught-up-in-lies/
It has often been said that for a computer to understand humor would be one of the toughest tasks. So, I decided to test it. Joe: Do you understand humor? Copilot: Ah, humor! The delightful dance...
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2024/03/18/microsofts-ai-copilot-and-humor/
As much as I like living in the future it is nice to have someone living a little further in the future and sending messages back in time to me. This is from a conversation with Microsoft Copilot...
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2024/03/07/i-like-living-in-the-future-3/
Quote of the Day Following the line upwards we learn that the entire observable universe – the area that sits within the “Hubble radius” is also on that line. In other words, if a black hol...
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2024/03/05/i-told-you-years-ago/
Quote of the Day The technology is based on a specially designed molecule of carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen that changes shape when it comes into contact with sunlight. It shape-shifts into an ‘...
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2024/03/02/storing-solar-energy-in-molecules/
Very cool! Scientists Have Created the World’s Smallest, Lightest, and Fastest Fully Functional Micro-Robots (scitechdaily.com) Two insect-like robots, a mini-bug and a water strider, developed...
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2024/03/01/living-in-the-future-6/
I asked Google’s Gemini the same question Chet asked it a few days ago, “Who runs Boomershoot?” This is today’s answer: It also gave me a pop up: This, as is known in the software develop...
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2024/03/01/google-gemini-is-double-checking/
I don’t think I have ever seen this article on Boomershoot. Microsoft’s Copilot pointed it out to me when I repeated Chet’s question, “Who runs Boomershoot?” As expected, the answer giv...
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2024/02/28/gun-digest-on-boomershoot/
Via email from Chet: Question: who runs Boomershoot? Copilot: Joe Huffman is the driving force behind Boomershoot, a unique long-range precision rifle shooting event held annually near Orofino, I...