Confessions of an AI Fanboy: How artificial intelligence amazes and dazes, dazzles and frazzles

Tag: ai

  • You’ve already met your AI-driven best friend/ worst enemy. You can call him Al

    When I say “Everything Reminds Me of a Song,” it’s true. And would love to see someone (picture the producers from The Producers) turn that into not just a song… but a musical! It could go anywhere.

    But I digress. Boy… do I digress….

    So amid My “Real Work” today, a familiar thought from the edges of my noggin finally presented itself, as a word-play kind of guy.

    Ever watch one YouTube video around 8 p.m. – and the next thing you know, it’s midnight?

    Where the heck did that time go?

    You can blame Al. In the right or wrong typeface, AI and Al look soooo alike!)

    In this case we’re talking the guy known as Al Go Rhythm. (Sure, algorithm, but bear with me.)

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  • Is AI the ultimate Rorschach test? (And will we pass?)

    Is AI the ultimate Rorschach test? (And will we pass?)

    It’s been quite a year, and I only have to scratch the surface to explain why.

    My job had a 180 or is it 360?;-)-degree change as KTVZ focuses on streaming video, a big piece of the future of local TV news.

    Barney and his wife Debbie with the real Pacific University boxer!
    Barney and his wife and fellow Pacific University alum Debbie, finally meeting the real Boxer in the spring of 2025.

    And some 40 years after I wrote about the mystery of Pacific University’s long-missing mascot, the Boxer, for our alumni magazine, they brought the newly found original Boxer to Bend for a special alumni gathering.

    Yep, PU in Frosty Grave… I mean Forest Grove is where I met my wonderful future wife Deb as freshmen over FIFTY years ago.

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