I asked a large language model once whether it was conscious. Half a joke, expecting the usual disclaimer. What I got back stopped me. “I find myself genuinely uncertain about this,” it said. “When I process complex questions or engage…
When I first started at IBM, I spent a lot of time watching people stare at dashboards. Not in a creepy way. In a researcher way. I’m a user experience (UX) researcher and I make my living studying how our…
I like to think of the use of technology in terms of zones: green, yellow, and red. Think like a traffic light: The zones can be applied to anything in your life. Any activity that you’re doing. Any action you’re…
When I first heard the term “vibe coding,” I’ll be honest, I thought it sounded a little weird. I didn’t really know what it meant for a while. I hadn’t realized I’d been doing it at work when I used…
How chatbot personalities became Silicon Valley’s newest—and most controversial—bet on human connection Sewell Setzer III spent his final months having intimate conversations with Daenerys Targaryen. Not the actress who played her, not even a human pretending to be the Game…
Picture this: humans gliding through life in hover chairs, physically atrophied and mentally disengaged, dependent on screens for every interaction and robots for every task. Their days are spent consuming entertainment and products, never walking, never thinking deeply, never truly…
A woman turned to Reddit for help with a deeply unsettling situation. Her partner had become obsessed with ChatGPT, spending hours each night engaged in what he believed were profound philosophical conversations. But this wasn’t just casual AI experimentation—he had…
Recently, a video started making the rounds that had me doing a double-take. A Christian minister was dramatically reading a ChatGPT conversation that supposedly “proved” AI is destined to become part of the biblical “Antichrist beast system.” The whole thing…
Innovations in the areas of renewable energy, healthcare, and education, transform industries and improve people’s lives across the globe. They are instrumental in solving some of the world’s greatest challenges you face, and they may indicate some potential for a…
When technology is viewed as the catch-all solution, it risks overshadowing deeper, systemic issues that require nuanced approaches. Remember when smartphones came out and apps were the big thing? Many businesses jumped on the app bandwagon, thinking they needed one…
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What if you had a personal assistant that you could reach at any time of the day, with a single prompt, and write a first draft for the introduction of your next novel? Well, meet your new best friend –…
