by Mason Voehl Executive Director Artificial intelligence’s moment has been long in coming, and now it’s arrived. Testing the capacities of novel AI engines such as ChatGPT to “outsource” what has long been thought to be the strictly human...
I’m not even 40 yards from the trailhead sign at China Ranch when I approach a bend in Willow Creek. The gurgle of the creek hits me first, a warm laughing sound seldom heard in most reaches of the Mojave. A slight clearing in the mesquite bosque draws me forward,...
There is something special and almost sacred about a first impression. When faced with something new and mysterious, we tend to pay closer attention. Every slight gesture or nuance of a stranger commands our attention because we don’t yet know what is and isn’t...