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August 19, 2026 — filed under Machine Intelligence
The latest generation of artificial intelligence arrived with a new trick that looks, at first glance, like a genuine leap. Ask an older model a hard question and it answered…
by sysop_gray
August 10, 2026 — filed under The Wired World
Ask a computer to pick a random number and it will happily oblige. Ask how it did it, and you uncover one of the quiet paradoxes at the heart of computing: a computer is a…
by sysop_gray
July 31, 2026 — filed under The Wired World
For a few years the story of artificial intelligence has been a story about size. Each new model was bigger than the last, trained on more data with more parameters, and the…
by v0id_walker
July 24, 2026 — filed under The Wired World
For a few years the story of artificial intelligence has been a story about size. Each new model was bigger than the last, trained on more data with more parameters, and the…
by v0id_walker
July 24, 2026 — filed under Machine Intelligence
Ask one of these systems a question and, most of the time, you get a fluent, plausible, correct answer. Ask it a slightly different question and you may get a fluent, plausible,…
by sysop_gray
July 20, 2026 — filed under Signal & Noise
This site is, in a small way, a survivor. It went dark for years and was pulled back from the archives of the early Internet, which gives me an odd vantage point on a problem…
by sysop_gray
July 17, 2026 — filed under Machine Intelligence
There is a temptation, when you sit in front of one of these systems and watch it answer, to believe you are talking to something that understands. It writes fluently, it stays…
by sysop_gray
July 13, 2026 — filed under The Wired World
For most of the history of prosthetics, an artificial limb has attached to the body in the same basic way: through a socket that cups the residual limb and holds the prosthesis…
by v0id_walker
July 7, 2026 — filed under Machine Intelligence
Every few years the same story returns, dressed in a new company's press release: the brain-computer interface is here, the keyboard is dead, telepathy is next quarter. And every…
by sysop_gray
July 4, 2026 — filed under Signal & Noise
How web entertainment got engineered for your attention — a field note from someone who was there for the before. I want to start with a sound you may not remember, because it…
by sysop_gray
July 4, 2026 — filed under Machine Intelligence
Re-reading The Matrix from the far side of the screen. There is a scene near the beginning of The Matrix that most people forget, because the film gives you so many louder ones…
by v0id_walker