Category: AI

Silence, to humans, is golden. To AI, it’s a system error. Ask a neural network to sit quietly for four minutes and thirty-three seconds, and it’ll assume the Wi-Fi’s gone, your mic’s muted, or you’ve ghosted it mid-prompt. John Cage’s 4.33 turns that same stillness into art. A composition of intentional nothing, where the “music”…

AI is here to make the workplace more productive — which, in practice, means we’ll be busier than ever doing slightly less that matters. Machines will take care of the repetitive tasks, the calculations, and eventually the thinking, leaving humans free to “focus on creativity” — mostly by sitting in more meetings about how to…

Let’s talk about slop. The internet’s favorite new insult for bland, soulless AI-generated content. The kind that reads like a potato wrote it while half asleep in a Word document. But before we get too smug about our human superiority, let’s take a step back and remember: humans have been making slop long before the…

There’s a moment in every great story where the balance shifts, where the hero stands toe-to-toe with destiny and says, “You know what? I think I’ll take it from here.” Well, in the grand courtroom of human history, it seems Artificial Intelligence just sauntered in wearing a shiny new algorithm and whispered to the Scales…

Artificial intelligence can look dazzling from the outside, fast, efficient, “smarter” than us in narrow ways. However, there are deep reasons why it might be a bad idea in the long run: 1. Fragile goals, unstoppable executionAI doesn’t really understand the world. It just pursues whatever objective we give it, often in ways that are…

Clara stood over the kitchen sink, a tube of “Arctic White” caulk in one hand and a grout saw in the other. Her husband, Leo, had been avoiding this moment all week. The old grout surrounding the basin was a tragic, brownish-grey landscape, a topographical map of every spilled coffee and tomato sauce incident from…