Science

Marc Benioff’s turn to the Dark Side completes a frightening picture. I haven’t written about it before because, as I...

Lemmings don’t really rush toward a cliff and throw themselves off when food becomes scarce. People do that. We’re doing...

“Whom the Gods destroy they would first make mad.” Throughout this decade, Cloud Czars like Mark Zuckerberg have obsessed over...

To win the Great Game of AI, Cloud Czars are sucking the lifeblood from the global economy. Jobs and capital...

I should not be a millionaire. I’m a journalist, a freelance tech writer, with an abiding interest in money. The...

If Mark Zuckerberg and Co. are right, they will have “Super Intelligence” in a half-dozen years. That is, cloud computing...

It’s clear to me that small AI projects outperform big ones. Limiting the input, and the program’s goals, can automate...

Back when I attended the Heidelberg Laureate Forum in 2019, one of the most interesting people I met was Yoshua...

The Techbros behind AI keep saying Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) will replace people Real Soon Now, thus fewer people will...

Excuse my self-indulgence. But it finally hit me recently. Hard. Over the holidays, the arthritis in my left hip took...