The Ghost Is In The Machine
The author reflects on humanity’s war‑making past—missiles and other weapons born of desperation—and then turns to the promise of artificial intelligence as a new kind of…
AI, language models, autonomous agents, and what thinking machines mean for people and the future.
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The author reflects on humanity’s war‑making past—missiles and other weapons born of desperation—and then turns to the promise of artificial intelligence as a new kind of…
The post envisions a future where powerful artificial intelligence—capable of curing aging and mastering chaos—has yet to be realized but is already hinted at by small…
The post explains the strengths and quirks of text‑to‑image AI, then proposes a small business model that creates custom AI‑generated themed canvases, frames them by hand, and…
Generative art, fueled by prompt‑based AI, swiftly creates diverse images—from style mimics to hybrid creations—yet still lets traditional artists refine and build upon the…
The post presents two creative strategies: first, a graphics tip that encourages adding maximum complexity—by starting with simple, oddly shaped subjects such as “naked cats” or…
An AI‑written manifesto urging readers to free their minds from indoctrination, embrace critical thinking, nature, and collective wisdom for a unified, enlightened human future.
The post envisions a future internet where AI and local storage bring the web into homes, making it stronger, more resilient, uncluttered, and accessible; users download and…
Artificial Intelligence equips students with “superpowers” that can lift them out of poverty by enabling small businesses and individual creators to produce highly useful…
The poem reflects on the promise of AI—its ability to predict, heal, and transform society—while noting its potential to age people back, alter politics, and bring an end to…
Recently AI has been installed on countless homes offline, and a new commercial build announced can navigate complex text while handling tasks like tax filing and program…
The author reflects on a recent experiment with a language‑model AI that prompted simple questions from childhood, then uses the responses to sketch a series of essays on…
Create an online store on a big marketplace that takes about 50 % of each sale, then later upgrade to your own custom website where you can present customers with links to…
The author uses an AI‑generated list of poems—ranging from “The New Colossus” to Yeats’ works—to explore waking from indoctrination, America’s hopeful future, and personal…
The post describes an artist’s experiment in generating a set of four AI‑created superhero characters—Bula, Lola, Lulu, and Kiki—each with distinct powers linked to anger,…
Using Zazzle as a storefront, I experimented with Midjourney‑generated images—simple to upload with just a username and password—and created items like watercolor‑kitten…
The post enthusiastically praises Stable Diffusion as a powerful creative tool that can transform simple doodles into sophisticated artwork, encouraging parents to equip their…
The post argues that generative AI has fundamentally reshaped artistic production: by ingesting any input—from text or noise to blurry photos—these models can generate polished…
Future humans are likely to ask themselves questions about artificial intelligence, aging cures, and space colonization, and they will probably become a spacefaring species once…
The post reflects on the legacy of early computer systems and expert‑AI, muses on how MUDs and statistical AI can shape reality, and finally proposes fanciful reforms—such as a…
In the post, the “Heroines” discover that social networks can serve as a human‑intelligence‑based computer, with power coming from nested group graphs of users. They study 1960s…