Digital Dreams and Bourbon Nightmares: The Coming Robot Apocalypse

Look, I wouldn’t normally write about this superintelligence stuff before noon, but my bourbon’s getting warm and these press releases keep piling up like empties at last call. Everyone’s talking about how AI is going to evolve from today’s chatbots into something that’ll make Einstein look like a kindergartener eating paste.

Let me break this down while I pour another drink.

Remember 1956? Neither do I, but apparently some big brains at Dartmouth thought they’d crack this whole artificial intelligence thing over a summer. Real cute. Here we are, 68 years later, and the best we’ve got are chatbots that sound like your friend who took one philosophy class and won’t shut up about it.

Digital Archives as Memory Banks: When Your Past Becomes Someone Else's Training Data

The Italian data protection watchdog just fired a warning shot across the bow of what might be one of the more fascinating battles of our time - who owns the crystallized memories of our collective past? GEDI, a major Italian publisher, was about to hand over its archives to OpenAI for training purposes, essentially offering up decades of personal stories, scandals, tragedies, and triumphs as cognitive fuel for large language models.