A Private Deal

The congressman tied to the chair with his body and mind translucent to the vivisecting glare of a hundred sensors…

Quick link: A mathematician on AI for mathematicians

The link: Machine assisted proof, a text version of a recent talk by Terence Tao. The who: Tao is acknowledged…

What AI designers can learn from Dracula

(Not the vampire, the novel about how they killed him.) This is a commonplace in literary criticism, but most adaptations…

Auto-summarized Entries from a Personal Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence in Psychological #Self-Care

After his emotional crisis and social withdrawal, Edward’s psychiatrist installed a therapeutic helper chatbot on his phone. The software’s sustained,…

Quick Link: “The Era of 1-bit LLMs: All Large Language Models are in 1.58 Bits”

The link: The Era of 1-bit LLMs: All Large Language Models are in 1.58 Bits. The key part of the…

Whispered Dreams

Ever since she could remember Evangeline had been in love with the comatose boy her father kept in the laboratory…

A Hole in the World

Peggie was angry with many people, including herself, but her husband was the easiest and the hardest target of her…

In the waiting room at Avalon

A hundred thousand rumours, lies, and rituals live in Kent; although outnumbered they gang up on the people waiting in…

The Scaffolding

The black tower stands half-built in the cheaply bought crash desert land. Workers labor on it with quiet zeal unmappable…

After Trolls, Elves. Or not.

Most societally adversarial uses of bots aim at disruption: they are loud, they are aggressive, they aim at numbers and…