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.…
In the mid-1950s mathematician John McCarthy issued a call for research on "Automata Studies," but the phrase was so bland…
Honestly, this does not sound good. In the short term, it will only be possible to alter the "flavor text"…
(A transcription of the text and scans of photos from a 1972 magazine article about the legendary space combat computer…
It's not really a grading tool, but it might be worth introducing into the writing process. I'm running a paper…
Journalism is changing. Watchdog journalism -- the perusal of thousands of pages of official records in search of anomalies and…
Great 1972 Rolling Stone article about a foundational computer game. Reliably, at any nighttime moment (i.e. non-business hours) in North…
Efforts are afoot to not only make IF more accessible, but to make it more modern and attractive in appearance.…