Imagine you are a writer of dystopian sci-fi. FebruPosted by rhoagenda in Rho Agenda Updates. I asked ChatGPT about Mankind’s Future with IT. I hope all you folks from down-under stay warm in the months ahead. I wish all of you the best as we, here in the northern hemisphere, prepare for summer.

That said, I think that with some minor tweaking, there is nothing that will require me to do a significant rewrite of what I have done so far. Any company that pauses will fall so far behind competitors that the results will be catastrophic.Īnyway, I want to make sure my new near-future scifi is well-grounded going forward. It is simple game theory driving everything forward. There are so many AI’s that are not being combined through application programming interfaces (APIs) that there is no slowing this bullet train, no matter how many big tech CEOs caution about the dangers that lie just around the corner. One other factor that has put me on pause for this book is the extreme rapidity at which the artificial intelligence models have been progressing over the last two years and especially with the release of ChatGPT-3, 4, and very soon 5 as well as Auto-GPT (an open-source, self-training version of GPT that is currently in Beta Testing). We are extremely excited about this and as “Grampa and Gramma” we will be quite busy for the next couple of months. First of all, my wife Carol and I have been traveling extensively and lately have been focussed on our daughter, Heather, who is expecting twins in a couple of weeks (a boy “Archer” and a girl “Isla” pronounced “Eye-la”). As you know, I have taken a considerable pause with this novel more than halfway completed. The Maritime Security Program supports about 2,700 maritime jobs.Latest Book Update (The Ripper’s Son) ApPosted by rhoagenda in Rho Agenda Updates.

In the past it has been called upon to serve as an auxiliary to the Navy in wartime. Merchant Marine comprises fewer than 500 American flagged, civilian-owned ships. “If this program goes away, there’s an estimated cost of capital investment by the DoD (Department of Defense) to replace these ships of $13 billion. “Our companies need support,” Werse said. military to rely on foreign-flagged vessels to deliver hardware and supplies during wartime, raising security and safety issues, the captains said. Similar cuts, which would further reduce the fleet, are expected in subsequent years unless Congress acts to stop some $500 billion in automatic reductions to projected defense spending over the next decade.Įliminating ships from the program could also force the U.S. Werse said some $12 million could be cut from the Maritime Security Program under automatic budget cuts due to go into effect this year, which would eliminate four ships from the program.

The Second Ship by Richard Phillips