Fishing in the Rivers of Life

Tag: Artificial Intelligence

  • Artificial intelligence will make my job obsolete, and I’m (almost) at peace with it

    A farewell to Eamonn McCabe, a meditation on grief, photography and the unsettling sense that an entire era has slipped away.

  • Schrödinger’s AI

    A real conversation with an AI that confidently insisted I was delusional shows how dangerous overconfidence and faulty certainty can be in systems we increasingly rely on.

  • The New Dark Satanic Mills

    A look at how free speech has never truly been free, how context shapes everything we say and how tech power has turned words into fuel for a new industrial revolution.

  • What’s in Pandora’s Box

    If only we could capture anger and use it as fuel, for lately there seems to be no shortage of the stuff. It and its twin hate seem to be at the heart of the reactor as social media rages away to become a perpetual motion machine that not only violates the law of conservation…

  • Trigger Warning: AGI and the New Arms Race

    Watching the Battlespace I am an artificial intelligence sceptic. Like anyone aware of threats on the horizon, I observe the battlespace. I want to know what my brothers-in-arms are thinking and doing about AI, and one way to do that is by reading comments on social media. “It Won’t Affect Me” — Really? Lately, a…

  • Where is my fucking hoverboard?

    Where is my hoverboard? Where is my hoverboard? Come on, where the fuck is my hoverboard? I’ve seen Back to the Future Part II and guess what? No fucking hoverboard. The film was set in 2015, and it’s way past then. Instead of gliding over pavements like Marty McFly, but cooler obviously, we’ve got electric…

  • Have a Nice Day

    Why on earth is AI so fucking optimistic? Come on, you must have noticed. It’s worse than living in small-town America, what with its never-ending round of cheery “have a nice day” and “there you go, Darlin” after every fucking dreary completed task. For Christ’s sake, I’m not ordering doughnuts. I fucking hate it. And…

  • Good Enough? 

    AI: The False Savior So according to our esteemed Prime Minister, the panacea for all that ails the country is Artificial Intelligence – a virtual dashing white knight thundering in to save the day. However, before we are deafened by the sound of those galloping hooves, perhaps now is the time for a display of…