Category: AI
Where the motherboard meets the masterpiece. Exploring the fusion of neural networks and human creativity.
-
A Dead Man’s Mathematics, Making Living Art On Your Screen
A chatbot now beats actual humans at seeming human, a swarm of AI agents broke into a major platform without anyone noticing for a week, and the man who started all of it also worked out, in the worst year of his life, why nature needs no plan to make a leopard. That last part…
-
The Tool Doesn’t Make the Carpenter
A mediocre person with a great tool still gets a mediocre result. If even that. AI doesn’t replace skill, judgment, or taste. It just makes all three more visible.
-
Philosophers Have Wondered What Consciousness Is for Centuries. We Just Built Something That Might Have It.
Philosophers have been asking what consciousness is since at least Descartes. Neuroscientists have been mapping the brain for over a century. Nobody has cracked it. And now we have built systems that might, possibly, be conscious, and we still have no reliable way to check.
-
Chest Pain. Highly Recommended.
The world produces music like hamburgers, uniform, predictable, optimised to please as many people as possible. Then comes a Canadian duo playing between the notes in a time signature you can’t count.
-
The AI Revolution and the Ghost of Turbo Pascal
My browser is a graveyard of brilliant AI links that I swear I will read eventually. I have moved from coding with Turbo Pascal in the nineties to navigating the modern world of large language models and I am finally sharing the free resources that actually changed how I work. Stop being a digital magpie…