New short story: “NPC Encounters”
The first time you saw John after his funeral was as an anonymous ghoul in a melee fight you really…
New short story: “The Former Frontier”
It was good for the stock price. It was great for the brand. It was insanely good for corporate governance….
A couple of useful papers on modeling and measuring AIs and human minds
Here’s an interesting pair: Inferring Capabilities from Task Performance with Bayesian Triangulation: The paper describes a way to use hierarchical…
The Spy Who Knew Nothing
So the CIA has a program to train a chatbot to answer questions based on public data. This was to…
New short story: “Bedroom Memories”
Ever since his wife died he slept alone on their bed, breathing as quietly as possible lest the intangible intelligence…
Quick Link: Surveillance AI as an export
Exporting the Surveillance State via Trade in AI is an interesting paper from a group of economists from MIT, Harvard,…
New short story: “Ecological Succession”
Anne and Edward had met at work and admired each other before falling in love. Her forests were resilient egregores…
New short story: “The Thin Dotted Line”
The job comes with three perks: an NSA-proof new identity, the highest database access privileges a civilian other than the…
New short story: “Battlefield Conversion”
We killed Joan — our Joan, our leader, so brave on Monday when the cops took her — the Friday…
The distracted geopolitics of stochastic parrots
The EU, as reported by Wired, is getting increasingly enthusiastic-slash nervous about making their own AI, or at least their…