Karl Murray

I've been using AI generated audio to augment my public speaking. With this tool I am able to create professional audio and even dub my own voice. With even a limited understanding of AI and these tools you can create well structured, professional dialog with a range of voices and languages. If you have sharp ears you might even recognize Glinda from NVIDIA's video game demo :-). I did! check out the link below for more info. https://elevenlabs.io/text-to-speech Thanks to Eleven Labs for help...

The year 2023 has been an interesting one and has changed how I consider my role in IT and in life forever. There will never again be a time when I don't know what is going on in the tech space especially as it relates to AI and where this technology is headed in the future. I went from dismissal of ChatGPT as just another chat bot, which have been around for a long time but not very capable to using the tool nearly every day. If nothing more ChatGPT and other LLMs, Claude, Bard, Llama, Mistral ...

{editor note email removed, spelling errors left in} I would like to create a charter for a new not for profit company with the goal of solving the alignment problem. In order to do this we need to make sure that the business itself runs in alignment with human values. Please help me generate this documnet Certainly, I can assist you in drafting a charter for your new not-for-profit company with the goal of solving the alignment problem while ensuring that the business operates in alignment wi...

Below is part of my conversation with ChatGPT(3.5) my original transcript is unreadable by humans because I was just dictating raw to my note app without editing. This is basically 2/5 until I got stuck again. I want to put this out in to the world with a follow-up to come later. Thank you for sending all the parts of the text. I have received them all and will now process the request. To confirm, you had requested that I rewrite the text and remove redundant or rambling text while making minim...

Introduction: The rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have transformed our world in ways we never thought possible. From chatbots to self-driving cars, AI-powered technologies are becoming increasingly prevalent in our daily lives. However, as these technologies evolve at a breakneck pace, ethical and security concerns are becoming increasingly relevant. In this essay, we will explore the unstoppable advance of AI, the role of platforms like GitHub and Hugging Face in fostering i...

Where the crawdads sing is a special film about familiar subject matter that was done in just the right way to keep me engaged throughout. The characters felt honest and real and not overly complicated. The film's tone is just right and while it does feel a bit slow at times it really doesn't linger too long. I went and saw this with my wife and we talked longer about this more than any movie that I can recall. It's worth the money, it isn't flashy or a mind bending thriller but with your attent...

Cody Carpenter's score walks through a movie that in all honesty should have stayed in 1984. Conceptually there is a lot to like in the movie but in 2022 we have seen it all before and seen it done better. Stagger things meets the suicide squad in what felt rushed, and oddly boring remake. I wanted to like this but it just didn't grab me the way it could have. I just can't recommend Firestarter, given more time it could have been great. ...

A bug in computer and systems engineering parlance is when software doesn't run in a way that you expect. In other words it runs perfectly well in a way that you don't want. As with other things in life allowing the perfect to get in the way of the good will keep most things from the ever existing. I've learned through my travels that when explaining something technical it is better to be simple than to be accurate and on November 3rd 1971 and engineer working on the Unix project noted the follo...

Oh walnut perched on my house; the Easter egg of a squirrel's creation. You were hidden in plane sight by a clever squirrel with either no, or incredibly large amounts of imagination. You sat there in the cold and wind and snow. I wondered if you were forgotten or saved for last. Today I will never know, for you are gone. Were you the reward of a clever squirrel, or the prize of a lucky one? Farewell walnut you served your tree well. ...

In 1993 when I was 10 years old my mom went out and did something unthinkable. She went to the store and spent about $2,500 on a 'Leading Edge' computer. It was a 486 and ran windows 3.1. When I was a young child I thought I wanted to be a TV repair man, it seemed like the right thing to do for some reason. This idea quickly morphed into computer repair once I got my hands on one. At that time computers were still considered a luxury. We didn't even have dial up internet yet. The neighbor came d...