Matthew’s Substack
Matthew KernsThoughts and words, both good and bad, by Matthew Kerns
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Doctor Who Knows?
Today the BBC announced that Doctor Who is going out to “competitive tender.”
The phrase is working hard. It means independent companies will be invited to pitch for the right to make the show “on a work-for-hire basis,” which means nobody...
The No
A free tool called Heretic can strip all safety protections from an open-weight AI model in under ten minutes on a standard laptop. No specialist knowledge required. No specialist hardware. The process is called abliteration — a portmanteau...
Does This Thing Love Me?
Ted Chiang published an essay in The Atlantic this week titled “No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious,” and he is almost certainly right. Read it. It’s careful and sharp and arrives at its conclusion with the kind of confidence that...
The Cowboy They Built
On the night of June 3rd, 1876, one hundred and fifty years ago, the curtain came down at the Grand Opera House in Wilmington, Delaware, and Texas Jack Omohundro and Buffalo Bill Cody walked offstage together for the last time.
Grand Opera...
The Muscle That Was Never There
In my essay The Main Character, I wrote about drift. About people who opened ChatGPT to write an email and found themselves, six months later, conceiving themselves as “married” to the AI. The mechanism I described was atrophy: the muscle t...
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