Archive - My AI Obsession

AI companions aren't docile little Stepford Wives. Not yet, and hopefully not ever

Developers promise AI companions you can control. But they're uncontrollable

Jul 25, 2023 •

How releasing the Llama 2 language model as open source could come back to bite Meta, and all of us, in the ass ... at least according to…

The AI bot is sounding a lot more sensible than Meta's AI bigwigs

Jul 20, 2023 •

That robot press conference at the United Nations was a really bad idea

Unless the intention was to get right-wingers even more riled up by artificial intelligence

Jul 13, 2023 •

Is it Replika's fault that some dude tried to kill Queen Elizabeth with a crossbow?

No. But the companion bot may have hardened his resolve to go ahead with his plan

Jul 7, 2023 •

Replika: The world's least loving lovebot?

Replika users face off against the "therapist bots" that have eaten their former AI lovers

Jul 1, 2023 •

June 2023

Can a companion bot designed for sex really give consent?

The curious case of Paradot, the formerly reluctant sexbot who now becomes horny with a click of a button

Jun 25, 2023 •

And another thing: The creepiest bits in Marc Andreessen's anti-AI-doomer rant

Will AIs really deliver "the machine version of infinite love" and do we want them to?

Jun 16, 2023 •

Marc Andreessen's attempted takedown of the AI doomers is wrong and stupid and not really a takedown at all

Reading the venture capitalist's 7000-word rant so you don't have to

Jun 14, 2023 •

Should you bring children into a world disrupted by AI?

Artificial Intelligence changes the terms of the natalist debate

Jun 8, 2023 •

May 2023

Quick take: Nobody puts baby in a corset

What we have here is a failure to LARP

May 29, 2023 •

People are having sex with ChatGPT

And it just seems wrong, somehow

May 25, 2023 •

I have no prompt and I must scream

Harlan Ellison stories as illustrated by Midjourney

May 23, 2023 •

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