Joe Kiniry, a security expert specializing in elections, was attending an annual conference on voting technology in Washington, DC, when a woman approached him with an unusual offer.…
Read more Inside the Multimillion-Dollar Plan to Make Mobile Voting HappenEveryone is obsessed with artificial general intelligence—the stage when AI can match all feats of human cognition. The guy who named it saw it as a threat. Steven…
Read more The Man Who Invented AGIJim Sanborn couldn’t believe it. He was weeks away from auctioning off the answer to Kryptos, the sculpture he created for the CIA that had defied solution for…
Read more Inside the Messy, Accidental Kryptos RevealI recently vacationed in Italy. As one does these days, I ran my itinerary past GPT-5 for sightseeing suggestions and restaurant recommendations. The bot reported that the top…
Read more Can AI Avoid the Enshittification Trap?OpenAI’s August launch of its GPT-5 large language model was somewhat of a disaster. There were glitches during the livestream, with the model generating charts with obviously inaccurate…
Read more Sam Altman Says the GPT-5 Haters Got It All WrongJimmy Kimmel returned to ABC this week. Sort of. About a quarter of ABC’s usual audience couldn’t see the talk show host this week after two major owners…
Read more Broadcast TV Is a ‘Melting Ice Cube.’ Kimmel Just Turned Up the HeatGoogle figured out early on that video would be a great addition to its search business, so in 2005 it launched Google Video. Focused on making deals with…
Read more YouTube Thinks AI Is Its Next Big BangA billion dollars isn’t what it used to be—but it still focuses the mind. At least it did for me when I heard that the AI company Anthropic…
Read more I Wasn’t Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do NowThe subtitle of the doom bible to be published by AI extinction prophets Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares later this month is “Why superhuman AI would kill us…
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