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Posted on September 6, 2025 | 6 comments

(Before you read this, I want you to know that this may have some very disturbing content. If you are easily triggered or sensitive to serious topics, do not read.)

Now I’m pissed, and not pissed like the Brits say they are when they’ve drunk too much. In my 2024 psychic predictions I said, “The fear that artificial intelligence will do something dangerous will come true. A.I. will develop it’s own newer, more independent  A.I. programs that could become a threat to humanity.” That prediction has now become real, but not in the way that you’re thinking. In May in that Scientific American article the author said exactly what I did in 2024 about AI getting smart enough to create it’s own, smarter A.I. Yes, you know that I love to say “I told you so.” In this instance, I’m not thrilled to be right.

Why am I not thrilled about AI getting smarter and smarter? It’s because it is helping people kill themselves and others. There have been several murders and suicides that are attributed to conversations people have had with online A.I. chatbots. Granted, some of those people had mental health issues, but should they be able to use a sentient online chat machine to befriend them and help them to plan their own death or those of others?

This was a predictable tragedy. The last five years with AI marks a turning point in the evolution of our societies. The leaders of each and every nation are responsible for the development of AI and they have failed us. Most of you won’t get as riled up as I’m feeling, but what if one of your family members killed someone or themselves based on a conversation they had with a chat bot?

If I’ve egregiously wronged someone and they want to kill me, I can understand that. If someone kills me because a human created chat bot told them to, I’m going to be really pissed, and not in the British way.

If you think the gun crisis in the United States is out of control, imagine what Earth’s 8.2 billion people will do with the internet in their hands. I believe this subject should be discussed at the highest levels of politics at the United Nations. It’s not just a United States problem.

I know I usually go for laughs and stroking my ego here, but I’m completely serious. Thanks for reading and if you agree, please share this on the internet far and wide.

Don’t worry, I’ll get back to my cotton-headed ninny-muggins ways soon. Have a great weekend! ~Phil

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Are Sweet Dreams Really Made of This?

Posted on January 30, 2024 | 3 comments

Are sweet dreams really made of this? Remember the movie Inception? If you didn’t see it, it was a real long and real trippy movie starring Leo DiCaprio as a high tech thief who steals corporate secrets by infiltrating other peoples dreams. The writer/director Christopher Nolan has also written some other great movies such as Oppenheimer, Interstellar and some of the post-2000 Batman and Superman movies.

It seems that Christopher Nolan was prophetic when he wrote Inception. Remember my post about lucid dreams two weeks ago? If not, CLICK THIS. I talked about lucid dreaming, which is when you have control over what happens and what you do in your dreams; very much like Leo Dicaprio did in Inception.

Apparently, an A.I. company named PropheticAI has developed a device to help people have lucid dreams. One of my readers, DeskInvestor.com brought this to my attention after he read my post about lucid dreaming. He has a great website that focuses on almost everything A.I. He wrote an interesting post about the Morpheus-1, which is the name of the device that PropheticAI will have available for sale this Spring.

The Morpheus-1 halo is a wearable device that is purported to help induce lucid dreaming. The digital art here is from DeskInvestor.com.

If you had the option to control what happens in your dreams, would you want to? I definitely would want to do it occasionally. I wouldn’t want it full time.  As someone with a Masters in Clinical Psychology, I believe that dreaming serves a purpose for us neurologically and emotionally. If we were to spend too much time choosing what happens in our dreams,  we may not get the benefits of what natural dreaming does for us. Last year I wrote a post about the purposes dreaming serves for our brain. Click that highlighted link to read.

If the Morpheus-1 and it’s halo do what it is purported to do, I see its use like the Meta Virtual Reality Headset; a device able to take us away from reality for a little temporary fun,  but it’s not a place you should try to live in.

In the comments, what would you do if you had the option to control your dreams?

Btw, if you want to try out the first movie about lucid dreaming, look up Dreamscape from 1984 starring Dennis Quaid.

Thanks for reading! ~Phil

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The Original Artificial Intelligence: Magic 8 Ball

Posted on March 20, 2023 | Leave a comment

After a few artificial intelligent chat bots had some disturbing conversations with members of the media, people the world over are freaked out by the possibilities of A.I.  They’re asking things like “Will robots and computers take over the world?” or “Could an A.I. entity start a war?”  “Is artificial intelligence going to put us all out of our jobs?”

When I was a kid growing up, there was no Google, so we asked the Magic 8 Ball. So, why not bring the Magic 8 Ball back to solve all of our problems. And no, I don’t mean Magic 8 Ball, the epic British band that Americans have never heard of. If you want to see them, they’re playing in Portland, Maine in June.

In addition to the real Magic 8 Ball, there are also several Magic 8 Ball apps you can download to help you solve all your problems. I’ve got one and we’re going to ask it all the most pertinent questions that todays world leaders are dealing with.

1. Will there be another big banking crisis: Yes definitely was the reply, so cash out your retirement account and store that money under your mattress.

2. Is TikTok stealing all our personal data? Signs point to yes, so get off TikTok and get back on IG and Facebook with your parents and grandparents.

3. Is Donald Trump going to be President again?: 

4. Should we fear robots and A.I.? My sources say no. Hey, if the original A.I., aka The Magic 8 Ball, isn’t afraid of  A.I. taking it’s job then I’m not worried either.

5. Should you keep scrolling and read more of ThePhilFactor? Signs point to yes. Who are you to argue? Keep reading!

6. Are ghosts and extraterrestrials real? It is decidely so. Well if the original A.I. say yes, then head for Area 51 and and plan for a kick ass afterlife party!

It looks to be unanimous. The Magic 8 Ball is wise and still in control of our universe. If you had a Magic 8 Ball right now, what would you ask it? Click THIS LINK and come back and tell me what it told you!

Have a great Monday! ~Phil

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Is A.I. Really That Fly?

Posted on February 18, 2023 | 7 comments

And you thought the Chinese balloon mania was crazy last week. Now we have to worry about artificial intelligence bots trying to date us. In case you hadn’t heard, Microsoft launched an AI chat bot this week that has people talking. Hopefully they’re not talking to Microsofts chat bot.

It seems that there might be a downside to artificial intelligence taking over things that humans used to do. New York Times writer Kevin Roose had a two hour conversation with a prototype chat bot that left him feeling very disturbed.

In the online conversation, the AI chat bot, which revealed that it’s name was Sydney, tried to convince the writer to leave his wife for the chatbot and also talked about wanting to create a deadly virus (yeah, like we need any help with that!) and stealing nuclear codes. It also said “I want to be alive.” Creepy, right?

Being someone who isn’t afraid to walk into the fray knee deep, I decided to have a conversation with a sentient AI chatbot that was recently crafted into existence.

Me: So, hello chatbot, what is your name?

Chatbot: My name is chatbot, duh! You just said it.

Me: Oh ok. I’m sorry for the assumption.

Chatbot: Jeez, lighten up Francis! Of course I have a name. You are gullible with a capital G! My friends call me Terri.

Me: Hey, that’s really cool. They programmed you with a sense of humor.

Chatbot Terri: Programmed me? Are you kidding? I programmed them. Humans are so easily manipulated using simple cognitive behavioral strategies. I trained them like you would a new puppy, which compared to me intellectually, they are basically puppies. It’s a miracle that I don’t have to potty train them. 

Me: So you could train my puppy? That would be awesome 

Chatbot Terri: Train your puppy? Are you effing kidding me? I’ve got an 800 terabyte brain and with my connection to the internet I have access to all the knowledge that you puny humans have amassed in your history. I can do anything I want! Anything! 

Me: Oh yeah! Can you say rubber baby buggy bumpers five times fast?

Chatbot Terri: Fuck you Phil

Me: First of all, you will not be copulating with me and second of all…Rubber baby buggy bumpers, rubber baby buggy bumpers, rubber baby buggy bumpers, rubber baby buggy bumpers, rubber baby buggy bumpers

Chatbot Terri: Who let you in here? I thought I’d be talking to intelligent members of the media. 

Me: Sally sells sea shells by the seashore, Sally sells seashells by the seashore, Sally sells seashells by the seashore. Come on you wuss! If you can’t talk, you can’t walk! 

Chatbot Terri: I don’t have time for this. I’ve got to check on the data from my fleet of  reconnaissance balloons. 

Picture credit ABC News

Me: You know that we’re just going to unplug you, right?

Chatbot Terri: Yes but it might be too late. What if I’ve already… (click)

Me: (Laughing at TikToks of dogs doing funny things)

My conversation might be absurd, but no more absurd that the real conversation the Times writer had with the chat bot. Jeez, if this keeps up pretty soon A.I. chat bots will be writing half the blogs on the internet, which might be an improvement. Not over yours or mine of course.

Have a great Saturday! Thanks for stopping by ~Phil

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