Technologicaldisruption


Jan. 16, 2025

AI Homework Helper: Welcome to Digital Detention

Listen, I just caught my neighbor’s kid using ChatGPT to write a poem about the futility of existence. Kid’s thirteen. When I was thirteen, the deepest thing I wrote was my name in the snow, if you catch my drift. Times change, I guess. Here I am, three fingers of bourbon in, trying to make sense of this brave new world where machines write our homework.

According to some fresh numbers from Pew Research (which I’m reading through whiskey-blurred vision), about 26% of teens are now using ChatGPT for their schoolwork. That’s doubled since their last count, which reminds me - I should probably double this drink.

Jan. 4, 2025

Robot Makes More Money Than Me (While I Drink Away My Savings)

Look, I’m three fingers of bourbon into my morning coffee, and I just read about some AI trading bot making a 500% return in a week. A goddamn week. Meanwhile, I’m still trying to figure out how my credit card debt doubled while I was passed out at Lucky’s last Thursday.

Let’s talk about Galileo FX, the latest silicon messiah promising to turn your lunch money into a yacht fund. This mechanical money manager apparently turned $3,200 into enough cash to make my bookie nervous - all while I was busy losing my rent money on what I thought was a “sure thing” in pharmaceutical stocks.