Half a century ago, Lewis Mumford developed a concept that explains why we trade autonomy for convenience

ChatGPT, Claude and other language models have dominated the mainstream discussions and use. However the future of AI lies in models outside of language.

Scaling will run out. The question is when.

Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington told me that they believe generative AI can help millions of suffering people. I’m not so sure.

The immediate future of generative AI looks a bit like Facebook’s past.

ChatGPT and LLMs can do anything (or look like they can), so what can you do with them? How do you know? Do we move to chat bots as a magical general-purpose interface, or do we unbundle them back into single-purpose software? What are the products?

Even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was skeptical a few weeks ago: "I probably trust the answers that come out of ChatGPT the least of anybody on Earth."

A new series focused on AI literacy outside the hype-doom binary. For the first installment, Reality Studies looks at questions of labor in the context of generative AI.

The capacity of AI to generate content is overwhelming the web.