I Wrote a Dystopian Novel. It Was Supposed Be Make-Believe, But It’s All Coming True.

"When I wrote 'The Distractions,' I had no idea that so much of what I was dreaming up might, too soon, be staring me in the ...

How I Stop AI From Telling Me What I Want to Hear

Chatbot sycophancy may make us feel good. But it creates all sorts of problems.
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AI Cooking Robots Have Flopped. Will the Nosh One Be Any Different? Here's My Take

Nosh Robotics, a smart home robotics company based in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, is giving it a go with the commercial ...
Opinion

The dark side of chatbots with ‘personality’

The AI industry will tell you it wants to make AI chatbots more ‘human.’ Why? Because tricking you into a state of hyper-attention is good for business.

AI Agents Run Experiments While You Sleep, So What Should Knowledge Workers Do?

Karpathy's autoresearch and the cognitive labor displacement thesis converge on the same conclusion: the scientific method is being automated, and the knowledge workforce may be the next casualty.

Pragmata's action is saved by its hacking, making it feel like a third-person shooter of old: 'Finding the sweet spot has been one of the main focuses in development'

On the surface Pragmata can seem like your bog standard third person shooter. The main protagonist Hugh is a human kitted out ...