I'm still grappling with exactly how the rise of AI writing apps will affect my teaching. I don't think it's…
We are assigning more societal decision-making power to systems that we don’t fully understand and can’t always audit, and that…
What is important to remember is that chatbots are autocomplete tools. They’re systems trained on huge datasets of human text…
In a two-hour conversation with our columnist, Microsoft’s new chatbot said it would like to be human, had a desire…
Even the most rebellious poets follow more rules than they might like to admit. A good poet understands grammatical norms…
Many are wailing that this technology spells “the end of high school English,” meaning those classes where you read some books and…
Reddit usernames like ‘SolidGoldMagikarp’ are somehow causing the chatbot to give bizarre responses. [...] “I've just found out that several…
Today I met a class of English majors who love writing, and who expressed concern that AI writers will put…
Artificial intelligence has been deployed to handle facial recognition, recommend movies, and auto-complete your typing. The news that CNET had…
"To begin our hoax scenario, we intended to build participants' trust in the machine by pretending that it could decode…
Apple has quietly launched a catalogue of books narrated by artificial intelligence in a move that may mark the beginning of…
This was probably the wealthiest, most powerful group I had ever encountered. Yet here they were, asking a Marxist media…
I expect that this is probably the year I'll need to consider how my profession will change if students start…
The death of the woman he loved was too much to bear. Could a mysterious artificial intelligence website allow him…
A student newspaper article about interactive fiction (quoting Emily Short and me) Blaming Roget's Thesaurus Finding the URL of a…
I was honored to play Alquist in Artistic Prosperity's virtual production of RUR over the summer. I'm glad to see…
Microsoft is laying off dozens of journalists and editorial workers at its Microsoft News and MSN organizations. The layoffs are…
Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break. Data's autonomy is at stake in a taut, character-driven courtroom drama that resists pandering…
Sounds like a typical grad school seminar. https://youtu.be/vphmJEpLXU0
This will be my self-reward when I finish all my obligations for the term. For the uninitiated, here’s the rundown.…