Skeptophilia

In its seven-year run, Star Trek: The Next Generation  had some awe-inspiring and brilliantly creative moments.  "The Inner Light,...

In case you needed something else to facepalm about, today I stumbled on an article in Vice  about people who are blending AI with religion....

A recent study found that regardless how thoroughly AI-powered chatbots are trained with real, sensible text, they still have a hard time r...

Just in the last couple of weeks, I've been getting "sponsored posts" on Instagram suggesting what I really need is an "A...

The word creativity  is strangely hard to define. What makes a work "creative?"  The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy  states t...

The science fiction trope of a sentient AI turning on the humans, either through some sort of misguided interpretation of its own programmin...

Inevitably when I post something to the effect of "ha-ha, isn't this the weirdest thing you've ever heard?", my readers ta...

As always, Yiddish has a word for it, and the word is chutzpah . Chutzpah  means extreme self-confidence and audacity, but there's more ...

If yesterday's post -- about creating pseudo-interactive online avatars for dead people -- didn't make you question where our use of...