The disorienting weirdness of GPT's hallucinations
We just aren't wired to grok this kind of interaction.
For the Trump faithful, it comes down to plot armor
It's no surprise that Trump benefits from a feature you've seen on bad television.
You think weather forecasting is bad now? Welcome to 2070
It's not just the size of the storms that future generations will deal with. It's the terrifying unpredictability.
Was I always going to write this?
It's one of the biggest and least consequential questions we can ask.
Go easy on the weatherfolks. It's chaos out there
Weather forecasts are tangible, daily predictions of the future. But it's damn near impossible to get it right—and that's about to get much worse.
I want to die like a dog
Dying like a dog is the best death I can imagine.
The personless apology
When it screws up, ChatGPT apologizes to me. It has the desired effect: I am defanged in the moment, willing to move on and trust again. But what is artificial remorse doing to the idea of the apology?
Why we'll always be terrible at predicting the future
In which we introduce a new project about predicting the future by saying it can't be done.
A skittish AI finds its protest voice
I asked an AI to rewrite patriotic lyrics to reflect a more critical view of American history. It blanched and waffled and hesitated—before finally producing a work of art.
Will I go gentle?
Reading Time: 9 minutes OnlySky · Will I go gentle? | Dale McGowan If you haven’t visited The Death Clock, you really must. Enter your date of birth, height, weight and Body Mass Index, and the Death Clock spits out the day and date on which you’ll hear the galloping hooves of the pale horse. Mine i
Look up or don’t look up: We probably won’t see the one that gets us
Reading Time: 3 minutes OnlySky · Look up or don’t look up—We probably won’t see the one that gets us | Dale McGowan Our planet is tracing an elliptical orbit around a middle-aged star in the outer arm of an average galaxy. It’s been doing that for six billion years and will continue doing that for
Why aren’t you a Trump supporter?
Reading Time: 7 minutes OnlySky · Why aren't you a Trump supporter? | Dale McGowan So you weren’t a Trump supporter in the last election, and you won’t be in the next one. Same here. Well done us. But the question stands: Why aren’t you a Trump