Wendy Mitchell has died. I feel I have, too.

I rarely feel much emotion when I learn that someone I’ve known has died. This…

Little brown birds

Somewhere I had found a study about this. But it didn’t seem to be anywhere.

The horror of talking to animals

Trying to decode animal communication with AI is a “thing” now. What…

Microsoft’s ChatAI is a warning

It’s happening very fast now.

Why DALL-E should scare us

It’s probably not why you think

When AI mimics consciousness

We cannot prove consciousness in anybody except ourselves. But AI may…

Two kinds of people

A basic difference shows how people approach our current crises.

The banality of evil, applied

The phrase “banality of evil” came from Hannah Arendt. Known as a political theorist, she covered the trial…

Closer Now

Artifical General Intelligence is … well, see what OpenAI says.