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The machine fights back
AI is coming for government, just not in the way that public servants are thinking about it
The vocabulary of agents
Some disorganized thoughts on what it will mean to write software in the future
Every American is bilingual
A system you’re in, but probably never noticed, and now can’t unsee.
How we watermark things
A quick explanation of how we add metadata to content.
How to watermark AI
A post about a post about Unicode
Unicode is all you need
A simple idea for marking AI-generated content would have wide-ranging benefits for humans.
I woke up tomorrow
Day one of living with a benevolent AGI
The last millimetre problem
Apple is Ono-Sendai, and we’re pushing beyond real-time to anticipatory interfaces
My car is broken and so’s the car industry
Some thoughts on digital obsolescence, carmakers, and rent-taking
Music’s Golden Age
Any song, any time, anywhere, right now. But for how long?
Why did you pull out an umbrella?
Some hard lessons about being a better conversationalist.
Social contagion
The real issue with bank regulation in the modern era
What comes after the attention economy?
Channeling Herbert Simon to understand post-AI scarcity and abundance
Play your part
Remixing my thinking on AI-generated art.
Downgrade
I was eleven when my parents deleted my dog.
Why hasn't Google launched a chatbot?
The real AI breakthrough is as likely to come from a tiny startup as a tech titan.
We just got much better at understanding questions
Answering them correctly is another matter.
Everyone’s Illustrated Primer
We worry about AI helping students cheat. We should worry whether schools are obsolete.
Severe Cow Warning
A tale of bovine bureaucracy that deserves more attention