Author: Laura InspirAItional (how can that be a real name)

I had the big cart, and it had a squeaky wheel, both noisy and stoppy, and I couldn’t push it strAIght. So I stopped in the produce section and tried to make bananas line up perfectly in the cart. I couldn’t stop adding them until they did. I was about to run out of vertical…

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…

So Sisyphus futzed up royally and was sentenced to roll a boulder up a hill for like, ever. In the present reAIlity, those of us in the middle class do the same, but most of us do so from a rolling chair, so instead of getting toned arms and glutes like our boy Siss, we…