Robots for the Rest of Us
David BerrebyRobots & their AI. How we're changing them. How they're changing us.
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11 Ways of Looking at a Robot
Fable illustrated by Gemini. My prompt: “Illustrate the fable of the blind men examining the elephant, in the style of a 19th century realist painting.”
AI can write and talk and sing and draw, but it’s not alive. You know it’s machine. Ju...
Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, AI is From Bxzztgft
What we have here is a failure to communicate. This is Gemini’s response to a prompt asking for a cyborg-style illustration of the myth of Tithonus, who got the gift of immortality from a mighty being who didn’t actually understand what he...
Why Did an AI Tell Me AI Probably Caused the Mass Killing of Children at an Iranian School?
We know U.S. forces use artificial intelligence tools against Iran (including the supposedly now-banned Claude). And it almost certainly was a U.S. missile strike that destroyed a school in Minab, Iran on February 28, killing nearly 200 peo...
No Thoughts. No Desires. Yet It Speaks
This is what you get when you ask Google’s Nano Banana Pro to come up with a brain version of Magritte’s “La Trahison des Images (Ceci n’est pas une pipe)”.
When I was an English-lit major in the 1970s, post-structuralist literary theory...
Life With AI: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
In this metaphor, are humans the monkey or the book? Answer: Yes! Reproduction of a wood engraving by H. Linton after E. Morin. Public Domain.
In early 2023, OpenAI’s ChatGPT began experimenting with me, looking for ways to integrate me in...
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