I've already said a lot about the Fremont Street Experience, but walking up and down that covered street scene was about the only thing we did yesterday. Here is where you can get a sense and whiff of the culture of Las Vegas. A pedestrian mall in the olde downtown known for years as Glitter Gulch, for it had the first neon signs. The ceiling is 90 feet high and runs for 1375 feet. There are three stages, and the acts are usually free. There is the SlotZilla zip line if that is your interest. Some history. Fremont Street had Las Vegas' first hotel ( Hotel Nevada in 1906 that is today called the Golden Gate ). First telephone in 1907, paved street ( 1925 ), gaming license to the Northern Club, traffic light, elevator ( Apache Hotel ) in 1932 and high rise.  Can you believe this was the Fremont Hotel in 1956?   The Horseshoe was the first casino to install carpeting, and the Golden Nugget was the first structure designed to be a casino. However, by 1992 80% of the casino market w

While we love it, this cruise must be getting awfully boring for most of you.  So today I'll focus on something weighty, the  Artificial Intelligence Arms Race , mostly from an article by Andrew Chow and Billy Perrigo of  Time  magazine.  You can read the details yourself, so I'll only provide some highlights. Starts poetically with: T o create is human. For the past 300,000 years we’ve been unique in our ability to make art, cuisine, manifestos, societies: to envision and craft something new where there was nothing before . Then: Now we have company. While you’re reading this sentence,  artificial intelligence  (AI) programs are painting cosmic portraits, responding to emails, preparing tax returns, and recording  metal songs . They’re writing pitch decks, debugging code, sketching architectural blueprints, and providing health advic e. While much of AI is still only coming, this technology is already being used to price products like medicine, assemble cars and determine ads