Building in Economic Development AI “Fallout Shelter” In eighth grade, I built a fallout shelter in my parents’ basement. (Yes, I really did.) I stockpiled my mom’s canned peaches and tomatoes and felt strangely proud of the 30 gallons of “drinkable water”...
February had me reflecting on connection. This month, we celebrated Valentine’s Day, a day devoted to romantic love, and Black History Month, a commemoration of important people, events, and contributions in African-American history, in addition to a handful of other...
I purchased a new MacBook earlier this year, but was dreading the migration process. I needed to clean up and streamline my old MacBook, but I had grown accustomed to where everything was, and the thought of going through all of my files seemed daunting, which made me...
What do you do when you realize the chatbot you’ve been using might be smarter than you? That moment hit me today while using Grok3. I asked it to write an article for The Whittaker Report—covering its own development, the Memphis data center where it lives, its...
AI and Your Digital Twin…Continued Recent news highlights the growing impact of AI-powered digital twins. A notable example involves social media influencer Caryn Marjorie, whose content garners over a billion views monthly on Snapchat. Last year, her AI clone,...