My Artificial Intelligence Thoughts and Nothing Else
As tax deadlines approached in March, a new wave of highly sophisticated IRS impersonation scams emerged. Fraudsters used AI to generate perfect replicas of tax forms and official correspondence, bypassing…
Photo by www.kaboompics.com on Pexels Around Valentine’s Day, romance scams took a high-tech turn. Fraudsters utilized real-time deepfake video filters during video calls to maintain their fake personas, making the…
January saw a terrifying peak in AI voice cloning. Scammers began using three-second clips from social media to replicate a family member’s voice, calling elderly victims to claim they were…
Photo by Alexas Fotos on Pexels The year ended with OpenAI teasing a model they claimed showed “glimmers of AGI,” a massive hype high. But 2025 finished on a sobering…
Photo by Nana Dua on Pexels NVIDIA launched Blackwell 2 in November, an engineering high that promised 10x the efficiency of the previous year. However, the market hit a “low”…
Photo by Abhishek Navlakha on Pexels October saw a high for Meta and Lionsgate, who signed a landmark deal to train video models on cinematic archives legally. This was the…
Photo by Matheus Bertelli on Pexels OpenAI released “Strawberry 2” (o1-successor) in September, a massive high for scientific research. The model successfully solved several unsolved chemistry problems. However, the month…
Photo by Solen Feyissa on Pexels Apple Intelligence reached its final form in August with the iPhone 17 preview, marking a high for consumer adoption. By processing almost all AI…
Photo by Google DeepMind on Pexels July was defined by energy. In a historic high, Microsoft and OpenAI announced a multi-billion dollar investment in modular nuclear reactors to power their…
Photo by RDNE Stock project on Pexels June marked the full enforcement of the EU AI Act, a bureaucratic low for many US-based AI labs who had to pull services…
Stuart Glover