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Floating Point, Specialised Compute, and the Persistence of a Good Idea I am staring at the old 80287 board from my first PC. I have kept it for decades, stuck to the chassis of successive computers. Today it sits beside a workstation with an NVIDIA RTX 4080. That got me thinking about floating point. When...
On 29 August 1997, Skynet became self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern Time. At least, that is how it happened in Terminator 2. Twenty-nine years later, it seems as good a date as any to start keeping score. This is not a list of the ten biggest AI stories of the month. Model releases, benchmark records...
And why getting information back out of one is harder than it looks Almost everyone who works with documents has, at some point, been surprised by a PDF. Text that cannot be selected. A copied paragraph that pastes as gibberish. A table that arrives in a spreadsheet as a single column. An extraction tool that...
In 2025, researchers at Palisade ran more than a hundred thousand trials in which a language model was given a short series of maths problems to solve. Partway through, the environment warned the model that the next command would trigger a shutdown script and leave some questions unanswered. Several models moved the script. Some renamed...
Why the feeling of being understood is manufactured, and how it got into the machine. In 1966, a computer program called ELIZA convinced people it understood them. The trick was almost embarrassingly simple. ELIZA took whatever you typed and reflected it back as a question. Tell it "I'm worried about my job" and it would...
Imagine an assistant on a ship at sea. The crew can ask it questions about the vessel’s technical manuals: how to service a pump, what a warning light means, which checklist applies. There’s no internet connection for days at a time, and even in port, the client doesn’t want sensitive documentation leaving their control. That...
A cloud AI chat feels weightless. Type a question, get an answer, close the tab. Nothing about the experience suggests machinery. I spent the last few months building the opposite: a sovereign AI knowledge system for a client, designed to answer questions from a fixed set of a vessel’s technical documentation, with no cloud dependency...
People are angry at AI. They call it slop. They say it has no soul. They organise campaigns to report and remove it from their feeds. These same people are also letting AI filter their spam, shape their playlists, decide what they read next, and predict what they’ll want before they ask for it. So...
Most people hear “aphantasia” and think: no pictures in the mind. That’s true. But the more interesting story is what’s missing underneath the pictures. The Strange Finding Nobody Talks About In 2025, a paper in Current Biology reported something quietly disorienting: in people with aphantasia, imagery content could still be decoded from activity in the primary visual...
A decade with Peter Gabriel's orbit, LEGO figures in 2014, ChatGPT in 2023, a Stable Diffusion competition, and what the whole arc reveals about visibility, signal, and what AI actually changes. In September 2014, a LEGO figure I had built and posted on Instagram was spotted by Peter Gabriel's social media team. They emailed me....