Imagine yourself in 1985, whether you were alive at the time or not. You know nothing about computers, but somehow find yourself at a DOS or UNIX command prompt, staring at cryptic characters in an oddly angular font, glowing white against the flat, featureless black of the screen. Let’s imagine that you are used to […]
Category: Artificial Intelligence
A Few Thoughts on the New Programming
I remember one of the first programs I wrote, when everything about programming, the web, and the world of computing was new to me, which was a simple implementation of Conway’s Game of Life using an HTML table for the grid. Nothing fancy, nothing that hasn’t been done a million times before, just a fun […]
The Anthropomorphic Interface
Well, here we are, the future has arrived. We are living in the age of AI, our heads spinning with the possibilities and dangers, trying to understand what it all means for art, society, our jobs, our lives. These are big questions, and this is a humble programming blog (at least it was originally intended […]
On Using ChatGPT For a Few Minutes
They say that one of the reasons to write is to find out what you think, and looking over my previous blog posts it seems I spend more time thinking about Artificial Intelligence than I knew. I am a spectator to that world, someone who finds it fascinating as technology and as cultural phenomenon, as […]