From Punch Cards to ChatGPT

My grandfather’s glimpse into generative AI

My maternal grandfather, Skip, was always a farmer in my eyes. Tragically, my mother passed away from leukemia just a month after my birth in 1988. Being the first grandchild in the family, Skip and I were very close. As a child, I spent my days riding on the arm rest of tractors and combines during annual wheat harvest — and when I became a teenager, I worked the farm as a summer job …

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