Okay, AI Is Cool. But I Still Loathe It

This diagram of a perceptron, an early machine-learning method, might appear cryptic, but Anil Ananthaswamy explains it clearly in Why Machines Learn. HOBOKEN, JULY 18, 2026. In December 1985, I visited the Nevada Test Site the day before scientists detonated a nuclear device in a tunnel bored into the side of a mountain. I went to Nevada because I hated nuclear weapons and thought research on…