Author: robert.adlington

with Trump, it’s almost as though television became an Antichrist and appeared on the earth. Everything wrong with TV and social media, all the fluid, gelatinous, dumbed-down, pandering, unreliable stuff, just pours out of him incessantly. And the fact that TV made him what he is—because TV portrayed him as a very successful and decisive…

Squint and you can see ChatGPT as a DWIM UI: it never, never, never says “syntax error.” Now, arguably it should come back and ask for clarifications more often, and in particular DWIM (and AI) interfaces are more successful the more they have access to the user’s context (current situation, history, environment, etc). But it’s…

In this post, I took a brief dive into how different AIs respond to a user who has increasingly severe psychosis symptoms. I rated different AIs based on how often they push back against users, how often they confirm the user’s delusions, and how much they conform to therapeutic best practices in dealing with psychosis…

I spent a long time building identifiers for universities and companies (which was taken for ROR later) and it was a nightmare to say what a university even was. What’s the name of Cambridge? It’s not “Cambridge University” or “The university of Cambridge” legally. But it also is the actual name as people use it.…

In this example is the initial incorrect answers were not hallucinations: they correctly summarized online content that contained misinformation. The trick then is to encourage the model to look further, using “sorting prompts” like these: Facts and misconceptions and hype about what I posted What is the evidence for and against the claim I posted…

TL’s recollections were not merely accurate — they were structured. She described a highly organized internal world where memories were stored in a large, rectangular “white room” with a low ceiling. Within this mental space, personal memories were arranged thematically. Sections were dedicated to family life, vacations, friends, and even her collection of soft toys.…

After 26 years on the programme, the legendary presenter bids farewell to the series — Read on www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/melvyn-bragg-decides-to-step-down-from-presenting-in-our-time/

Indeed, it is entirely plausible that with only a few turns of history, China might now be the world’s most populous Christian nation. And if that seems hard to believe, consider what did happen. Sixty three years after the fall of Nanjing in 1864, China again erupted into civil war under Mao Zedong. This time…

What is life but what we choose, who we know, what we experience? Incoherent empty men want to sell me the chance to stop reading and writing and thinking, to stop caring for my kids or talking to my parents, to stop choosing what I do or knowing why I do it. Blissful ignorance and…

But “consumers don’t want to have to work hard to find what to watch,” said Smallwood. “They just want the right thing served up to them.” Todd Yellin believes ChatGPT is capable of writing a cookie-cutter Christmas movie now – but the potential blowback for trampling on human artistry wouldn’t be worth the risk. Most…