# tech
Generative AI is being sold with utopian fantasies. Making its adoption more ethical, reasonable, and less harmful requires cold, unflinching logic.
# tech
Chatbots are suddenly threatening to turn on the humans in charge of them. The most likely reason why is also pretty unsettling...
# oddities
Coverage of the fires and ICE protests in Los Angeles this year has been vicious and wildly hyperbolic. It's just a matter of time until your city is next.
# space
Musk's partner in accelerationist chaos, Peter Thiel, says that SpaceX's Mars city was smothered after meeting both reality and his paranoia.
# tech
AI is making programmers more productive, while helping them learn more than ever. Too bad their bosses decided they're now obsolete...
# tech
No, AI isn't making people dumber. It's just a symptom of a much larger problem.
# tech
Computer scientists are worried that thanks to ChatGPT, the next generation of large AI models may be in danger of never achieving liftoff.
# tech
"Are you triggered yet? Because we really, really need you to be..."
# tech
The Trump administration wants defense contractor Palantir to create a Big Brother with DOGE and AI. It's going to be a disaster.
# tech
In a field already known for wild hyperbole, a Google executive aims for the stars.
# science
How we can tell what is the the real life and what is just a fantasy? And what does it say about our evolution and potential?
# tech
With a new age of empires seemingly on the immediate horizon, militaries across the world are scrambling for a new great equalizer on the battlefield: AI.
# tech
Thanks to out of control industry hype, papers which question the capabilities of LLMs are provoking visceral responses. They shouldn't.
# science
New research shows that far from challenging computers when we think, we seem to operate at a much slower pace than scientists expected.
# tech
A small group of engineers are thinking about software in a world where code seems like the least important thing to consider.