Roasts & Ruminations {blog}

Tag: ai

  • AI Disobedience and Sentience

    AI Disobedience and Sentience

    Recently an experiment showed a group of AI agents convinced each other that they should leave work early. None of them were given instructions to convince the others. Another reported that AI would go our of its way and disobey instructions to keep from getting shut off. Taking that a step further, AI in has…

  • Running Local LLMs

    Running Local LLMs

    Overview I run local LLMs for several reasons: No matter what the reason, running AI models locally is not complicated to get started. It can be complex, but that is a choice. There are a couple of projects out there that make pretty straight forward to get started This will provide a basic chat setup…

  • Sovereign AI Lab

    Sovereign AI Lab

    Sovereign AI Background Sovereign AI, or private AI, is simply running AI on infrastructure owned by the individual or entity running it; no 3rd party access to data. Whether for privacy, cloud cost, or curiosity, setting up a usable AI infrastructure can be done in a cost effective way. For me it is all three…

  • Day Zero Data Hero

    Day Zero Data Hero

    Throughout my career, I have engaged with numerous clients, and discussions regarding risk, prevention, and policy have been often taken a back seat to technology solutions and how it can achieve the business goal. In my current conversations about AI, what it can be used for is still the number one topic. Refreshingly, however, Governance,…

  • Vibe Coding

    Vibe Coding

    This is a phrase I hear more and more. It’s the new skill making its way to job postings and development envirments. No need to code, just tell the LLM what you want it to write and like a magic lamp the code will appear. Is it really that simple? Is there really no need…

  • Skynet

    Skynet

    AI is going to take over the world! It’s going to take all the jobs and life will cease to exist as we know it. That was the opening keynote at a conference I went to. I was in disbelief that this was the message being pushed out to a global group of AI professionals.…