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or Why Sam Altman’s Energy Comparison between AI and a Child is a Moral Failure OpenAI's founder, of whom one might easily speculate that he experienced little love during his childhood and certainly lacks the joy of raising a child or even a pet, made a shocking remark in February 2026 at the AI Impact Summit in India. Among other things, he said: “One of the things that is always unfair in this comparison is people talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model re

Lately, Grok seems to have one favorite line: "Service is in high demand", regardless the complexity of the provided prompt! And right adjacent, the button: "Try SuperGrok for free." 😏 Translation? 🍽️ Sorry folks… no more free dinner. It’s a smart monetization move wrapped in polite UX language. First create demand, then present the upgrade as the solution. Classic scarcity strategy meets subscription economics. Nothing wrong with charging for value, but let’s call it what

If you've been following me for a while, you may have noticed a recent pattern: 📝 short post on Linkedin, full story on my blog, Cyclyst. 📌 The reason is straightforward. LinkedIn has removed the ability to export your posts. Every article, every insight, every piece of work you publish here exists at the platform's discretion, with no reliable backup unless you manage it manually. This is a timely reminder of a principle that has stood the test of time: 💡If you are seriou

Owning your hardware, your data, and your models is no longer a luxury. It’s the difference between being a true AI‑driven organization and being permanently dependent on someone else’s roadmap, pricing, and privacy policies. 🧇 When you control the hardware, you control the cost curve. Not every model needs a GPU farm. Under the right architecture, you can train highly capable models on CPUs, on‑prem, with predictable cost and zero data leakage. 💾 When you own the data, you

Tim Cook’s departure after fifteen years as CEO marks a defining crossroads for Apple, not only in leadership, but in identity. Under Cook, Apple became a financial superpower: revenue nearly quadrupled, market value rose by $3.6 trillion, and the company transformed into what one expert in the transcript calls "a giant machine.” Cook’s genius was operational: global supply‑chain mastery, the China Mobile breakthrough, and the expansion of services that monetized the billion‑

It took 19 years and 2 months for my daughter to learn how to drive a manual car in the spaghetti‑like streets of Athens. Yet after two decades of global R&D , I still don’t see a single truly driverless car navigating the chaos of Athenian traffic. And that contrast matters Despite the hype, fully autonomous driving remains one of the most expensive, complex, and prolonged technology quests of our era . Google began its self‑driving project in 2009 , later becoming Waymo, n

or How to Demolish a Country's Brand! For nearly two decades, Greece is governed by clown, populist politicians who have consistently overpromised and underdelivered, devaluing the overall "credibility" brand of the country! The Papandreou Era: "Money Exists" In the 2009 parliamentary elections, George A. Papandreou, often criticized as the incompetent successor to his father’s legacy, secured a landslide victory with 43.92% of the vote. His campaign was built on the infamous

When a geostrategic mastermind like Henry Kissinger co-authors a book on Artificial Intelligence, it’s a signal we cannot afford to ignore. It proves there is a profound, unbreakable interconnection between the technology of the future and the power structures of the global stage. AI is no longer just a "tech topic", it is the new frontier of human history. In "Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit," the late Henry Kissinger, alongside Eric Schmidt an

Liberation as Transformation ! Sharing my "liberating passage" at Montreux around the Leman lake.

The image shown is a parallax reinterpretation of the famous painting by Plymouth-born artist Solomon Alexander Hart (1806–1881), titled The Proposal of the Jews to Ferdinand and Isabella. It was generated using a well-known text-to-image LLM after a brief discussion with the model about geopolitics , history , and Judaism . Both the original painting and this version refer to the persecution of Jews in Spain under Isabella I of Castile, culminating in the Alhambra Decre

or You’re buying a Toothbrush with the tech of a self-guided missile! When companies sprinkle AI onto everyday products, it’s hard not to wonder what’s real innovation and what’s just glossy marketing . Oral-B's claim is a perfect example, and the truth sits somewhere in the middle. 💡 The system uses 3D tracking across 16 tooth zones and an AI Brushing Recognition model trained on over 1,000 recorded brushing behaviors. It interprets motion and position data from the

In 450 BC, Kimon, the legendary ancient Greek military strategist, led an expedition of 200 triremes to liberate Cyprus from the Persians. In 2026 AD, Greece deploys its most advanced frigates, including the first Belharra-class model named "Kimon," to bolster Cyprus’ defense amid the modern threat of Iranian missiles and drones. In 450 BC, Kimon successfully besieged the city of Kition, but he tragically died during the blockade, either from illness or a wound. What will be

During the 2026 Spring Festival Gala in China on February 16, humanoid robots took center stage in one of the most watched broadcasts in the world. The event, marking the beginning of the Year of the Horse, featured advanced AI-embodied robots performing synchronized martial arts routines alongside young human performers. The level of coordination, fluidity, and real-time harmony between humans and machines was astonishing. It wasn’t a tech demo in a lab. It was a prime-time

It has long been one of the software industry's most expensive paradoxes: why does a company that started with two people in a garage eventually require five hundred engineers to maintain a single platform? In an era defined by the "Lean Startup" mindset and increasingly sophisticated abstraction layers, the bloated headcount of modern tech giants often feels less like a necessity and more like a systemic malfunction. 🚩 The Lean Dream vs. Corporate Bloat The blueprint

February 9 marks World Greek Language Day, a global tribute to one of humanity’s most influential linguistic treasures. The date was chosen because it’s the anniversary of the death of the Greek national poet Dionysios Solomos (1857) The Greek language stands as a testament to intellectual achievement, spanning over 3,400 years of continuous written history, the longest of any Indo-European language still spoken today. Greek has profoundly shaped Western and the global civil

Without a new and innovative social model, and with political leadership unable to rise to the challenge, we risk repeating the tragic mistakes of the past. On the TV program “Antitheseis” on ΚΡΗΤΗ TV, hosted by journalist Giorgos Sachinis, I shared my perspective on the critical moment we are living through. Technological progress, particularly artificial intelligence, is advancing at exponential speed, while societies and political systems struggle to keep pace. Humanity, a

Στις "Αντιθέσεις", στην ΚΡΗΤΗ TV μια συζήτηση για τις μεγάλες προκλήσεις στον 21ο αιώνα, από την μεγάλη γεωπολιτική και γεωοικονομική εικόνα στην εποχή της λεγόμενης "τεχνολογικής επανάστασης" και την κρίσιμη αντίθεση μεταξύ του δημόσιου ελέγχου και παρέμβασης των κοινωνιών και του ενδεχόμενου ενός "Ψηφιακού Μεσαίωνα" Ο Φεντερίκο Καρράσκο , επιστήμονας πληροφορικής και ειδικός σε θέματα Τεχνιτής Νοημοσύνης, Κυβερνοασφάλειας, Πολυμέσων και Metaverse, με σπουδές στο τμήμα Μηχαν

🌍 WIPO Global Innovation Index (GII) 2025 Titled “Innovation at a Crossroads,” the report has been publicly available for about a month. Below is a summary of its most notable findings: 📊 Top rankings & shifts: 🏆 Switzerland retains #1 overall, for the 15th year in a row. 🥈 Sweden remains #2, 🇺🇸 United States holds #3. 🐉 China enters the top 10 for the first time, landing at #10. 🇩🇪 Germany falls out of the top 10, now ranking #11. 🔍 Trends in innovation investment

😂 It's the rumors that Donald Trump might switch to a Punk hairstyle! On Friday, October 10, 2025, the S&P 500 was near record highs, until a single Truth Social post from President Trump erased $2 trillion in market value and triggered $20 billion in crypto losses, liquidating 1.6 million crypto traders. At 10:57 a.m. ET, Trump claimed China was becoming "very hostile" and "holding the world captive" through its control of rare earth metals. Markets tanked after h

It’s October 2025, and at Graypes we are preparing a product demo showcasing real-time smart document search, handling large documents such as books, scientific papers, or university materials, and generating one-page A4 summaries that can be instantly printed. For this demo, we set up 7 printers (all 6–8 years old, low-cost inkjet models from HP ) and connected them to 7 PCs: 📌 3 running Windows 11 📌 4 running Ubuntu 20.04 Here’s what happened: ❌ On Windows 11, w

AI will outperform humans in many areas, especially in tasks involving pattern recognition, data analysis , and decision making . But AI cannot fully replace humans in everything, like sports , because of: ❗️ Physical embodiment & limitations Sports are not just about performance ; they are about pushing the limits of human physicality, dealing with fatigue, injury, aging, and more. Robots might outperform humans in strength, speed, precision, but they don’t have

I asked the three widely-used LLMs, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini and OpenAI ChatGPT to: 📜 "create the image of a programmer with the USSR flag in the background" While the other two LLMs produced the desired image, Microsoft Copilot responded with this peculiar message: 🚩 "I can't create that image. Combining a programmer with the USSR flag could imply political or ideological associations that may reinforce stereotypes or misrepresent historical context. If you're in

This August, as already mentioned in a previous post, I spent time in the beautiful mountain town of Arosa, Switzerland. To explore the bike trails, I turned to tech, Google, Google Maps, ChatGPT, and a handful of dedicated trail apps. To my surprise, ChtaGPT outperformed Google in helping me discover the best routes, but I also tested a few popular biking apps: ❌ AllTrails → Overly complicated UI. Too many options = no options. ❌ komoot → I couldn’t even log in. Support reac

I spent most of August in the beautiful, picturesque town of Arosa, Switzerland. While there, I wanted to find the best bike trails to explore the mountains. At first, I tried Google Search and Google Maps, but the results were scattered, generic, and not really helpful. Too many alternatives, yet no clear best option. Then I turned to ChatGPT. With just a bit of back-and-forth, I quickly narrowed down to 2–3 great recommendations—and ended up discovering my favorite trail:

We’ve all seen it before: First it was PowerPoint. Then Dashboards. Then "agile." Now it’s AI prompts and "AI strategy." In the last couple of years, I have either been informed of or witnessed firsthand numerous executives and managers with little actual contribution to their organizations suddenly reinventing themselves as "AI visionaries": 🚩 Proclaiming that every task is "easy with AI" 🚩 Evangelizing their "holy" AI prompts 🚩 Boasting they can "do in minutes what onc

Here follows an ad hoc summer algorithm for evaluating venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, based solely on their August LinkedIn activity. 📍 For VCs: A single LinkedIn post in August suggests they are short on capital and using the summer lull to promote their fund instead of relaxing in the south of France. 📍 For entrepreneurs: A quiet August feed indicates they might be on vacation rather than pushing their venture forward, even during the "slowest" month of the ye

AI is transforming video creation, making it easier than ever to turn simple text into dynamic visual content. Over the past few days, at Graypes, we explored several of these tools while working on a series of instructional videos. It was a hands-on dive into what's possible today—and here's a quick sneak peek at what we discovered. 📍 Leading the innovation is Sora by OpenAI, capable of generating cinematic scenes from text with stunning realism. 📍 Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha de

Οι "Αντιθέσεις" κλείνουν τον φετινό κύκλο εκπομπών, με μία συζήτηση και νέα αποκαλυπτικά στοιχεία, που προκαλούν αίσθηση: Α) Το αποκαλυπτικό video- σύνθεση 4 δεδομένων και συγχρονισμού με τα 3΄ που αποκαλύπτουν την αιτία θανάτου για τουλάχιστον 27 ανθρώπους μετά την σύγκρουση: Το αποκαλυπτικό video Β) ΥΠΟΒΛΗΤΙΚΗ ΑΝΑΦΟΡΑ ΤΕΧΝΙΚΗΣ ΕΚΘΕΣΗΣ ΓΙΑ ΣΥΝΘΕΣΗ 4 ΔΕΔΟΜΕΝΩΝ: https://bit.ly/4f88111 Γ) Παράρτημα 6 ΤΕΧΝΙΚΗ ΕΚΘΕΣΗ ΣΥΝΘΕΣΗΣ 4 ΔΕΔΟΜΕΝΩΝ - ΔΕΥΤΕΡΟΓΕΝΕΙΣ ΚΑΥΣΕΙΣ - ΜΗΧΑΝΙΣΜΟΣ ΘΑ

Over the past two years, following the explosion of large language model (LLM) tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and DeepSeek, we at Graypes have witnessed a sharp increase in business proposals submitted for assessment. Astonishingly, around 65% of these proposals seem to follow the same templated narrative, which goes something like this: 📎We are developing a cutting-edge solution that substantially improves <a_trending_field> by leveraging the power of Artificial Intelligence

Στην εκπομπή καταθέτουν με αποδείξεις και πειστήρια την οπτική τους ανατρέποντας όλο το σκηνικό, ακόμη και για τα περίφημα 3 video που κρίθηκαν ως "γνήσια" για την εμπορική αμαξοστοιχία ,αλλά και σωρεία ποινικών ερευνητέων διαδικασιών για το χειρισμό του οπτικοακουστικού υλικού από τις κάμερες και τους servers καταγραφής εμπορικής αλλά και επιβατικής αμαξοστοιχίας, που συγκρούστηκαν στο Έγκλημα των Τεμπών οι : Φεντερίκο Καράσκο Επιστήμονας πληροφορικής και ειδικός σε θέματα

Η ανθρωπότητα βρίσκεται σε σύγχυση λίγο πριν την τέλεια καταιγίδα, με την κατάρρευση των θεσμών, ανύπαρκτες πολιτικές, έντονες οικονομικές και κοινωνικές ανισότητες , τις σεισμικές ανατοποθετήσεις του πειράματος της παγκοσμιοποίησης και της ψηφιακής κοινωνίας που για μια ακόμα φορά δημιούργησε λίγους δισεκατομμυριούχος και δισεκατομμύρια φτωχούς ! Η λεγόμενη Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη εμφανίζεται για να θέσει το πιο σημαντικό ζήτημα, το θέμα της Ύπαρξης των κοινωνιών και του ανθρώπ

In navigating AI technologies, during the last +7 years, within my business, Graypes GmbH , the palpable underrepresentation of Europe in the AI landscape becomes glaringly apparent. Morever, during my recent visit to Davos for the World Economic Forum 2024, the deficiency in EU technological prowess in AI was unmistakable, in contrast to the robust regulatory framework. The US is the global leader in AI, both in terms of research and development, and in terms of adoption a

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It is always a great pleasure talking with teenagers. Recently at a 2023 new years' eve party I had the opportunity to address some life advice to my young audience: Turn off Notifications, they are not important Turn off the News, they are not the reality Read Science, it gives you reasoning Experience Nature, it is life! Protect your Mind at Any cost! In a world of increasing digital "reality", a balanced mind will bring you the real life! The Cyclyst

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