Some stories just keep coming round and round again. That’s why God invented Snopes; to helpfully and hopefully explore the veracity of stories shared by your friends on social media. Put another way, there are places to see if a story is bullshit. That stuff shows up everywhere, but Facebook is a goldmine of interesting […]

On Halloween night, while waiting for kids to come begging for candy, I sat on the couch and started throwing strange but simple prompts at DALL-E 3, and basically just having fun. In case you haven’t spent much time with DALL-E 3, it’s different in that, on the back end, ChatGPT will take your simple

Feeling a little on edge? Like someone is looking over your shoulder? Do you hear a creaking sound in an otherwise silent room? Wait! Was there something moving in the shadows? You could swear you just heard a low kind of moaning sound, as though the saddest, loneliest creature in the universe were writhing in

Let’s start with my tragic backstory. I suffered with crippling back pain for more than twenty years. I’m talking about being out on my back, unable to drive, barely able to walk, or work. I spent every moment trying to deal with the pain while doing my best to lead something resembling a normal life.

TRIGGER WARNING! This post paints AI in a largely positive way. Readers who feel threatened by positive outlooks may want to avoid this one. Too often, discussions about AI’s future pit humanity against machine, as if preparing for some cataclysmic showdown. Yet, this perspective fails to recognize the symbiotic relationship that could exist between humans

If you don’t know what I’m talking about here, consider yourself lucky and just move on. This isn’t likely to be too interesting for you and it might just gross you out. If you do know about nasal polyps, or you know of someone who suffers with nasal polyps, you may want to hang around.

“If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” – Abraham Maslow I’m not entirely sure why, but I’ve been putting off responding to this. I suppose it’s partly because I had such a visceral reaction to it. Maybe I wanted to write from detached criticism rather than my initial, “Oh, puh-lease!”

As viral art apps from Stable Diffusion, to Midjourney, to DALL-E 2, stoke fears about machines stealing human creativity, it’s worth remembering we’ve been training AI to enhance our creative skills longer than you may realize. Every snapshot you’ve taken with your smartphone camera in the last decade relied on artificial intelligence – the same

Years ago, when we bought our first Google Home unit (as soon as it was available), I described the technology as “magic”. I demonstrated it to my kids, pointing out the fact that you could ask the Assistant for the weather, or to explain something, or translate from one language to another. You could ask

As I write this, the WGA, the Writers Guild of America, has been on strike for three months; the strike started May 2, 2023. Just over a month later, the union, which represents screenwriters who work on movies and television (including streaming media), was joined on the picket line by another union, SAG-AFTRA, which is