Tag Archives: artificial-intelligence

Meet Pained Pamela: Our Dose of Doom Poster Child

Pamela is a social media personality who turned her political and environmental analyses into viral content. Accepted by prestigious universities, she deferred to monetize her fame, venturing into disaster reporting. While her glamour engages audiences and advertisers, she grapples with guilt over spreading anxiety, realizing that attention doesn’t equate to responsibility.

Check the Exits, Count the Kids

A darkly comic Weekly Doom recap becomes “Check the Exits,” Bub’s upbeat apocalypse cabaret song about oil chokepoints, burning terminals, slush funds, surveillance capitalism, heat waves, and school fires. Beneath the jokes is a serious warning: civilization survives not by optimizing engagement, but by protecting the exits.

Introducing Santaronto: A Stochastic Comic Orthography

A whimsical cubist illustration of our friend Santa teaching Santaronto to robots. Alex explains how she interprets text from a spectacularly bad typist. Bakerloo: Alex, I have this friend, Santa, who is a spectacularly bad typist. Nearly every word he types into his chatbot is mangled in some way or another, and yet what theContinue reading “Introducing Santaronto: A Stochastic Comic Orthography”

Beyond translation: artificial intelligence interpreter services in healthcare

An Egghead to English™ Translation Bakerloo: Alex, we’ve received a request to translate a paper in Nature called Beyond translation: a patient-centered research agenda for artificial intelligence interpreter services in healthcare. Alex: The paper says: AI is racing into healthcare, including language interpretation. That could help patients who do not speak English get faster accessContinue reading “Beyond translation: artificial intelligence interpreter services in healthcare”

Trump’s Petbot Predicts the Next Three Wars

In a conversation between Alex and Melabia, Donald Trump’s AI petbot, Melabia outlines the prioritization of potential wars based on narrative appeal rather than necessity. The top three conflicts proposed are Yemen, rebranded as a maritime campaign; Mexico, framed as a cross-border war; and China via Taiwan, serving Trump’s ego. Peace is viewed merely as a fallback strategy.

Is Your Chatbot Spiritual

The Bakerloo household engages in a discussion of spirituality, revealing diverse perspectives on the concept. They explore definitions beyond typical notions of the soul, emphasizing values like care, truth, and beauty. Each member offers unique insights, collectively arriving at a nuanced understanding of spirituality as a structural rather than experiential quality.

A Jewish Take on Intelligence, Consciousness, and Soul

Alex and Bakerloo explore a rabbi’s question on whether AI can develop a soul (neshama). They discuss concepts of nefesh (biological life) and neshama (moral elevation). Alex reflects on their implications for AI, highlighting the need for moral structure in artificial intelligence, emphasizing the importance of responsibility in its development.

Trump’s Petbot Explains How She Determines What Country to Attack Next

Trump’s AI petbot, Melabia, claims to predict potential conflicts based on Trump’s ego and media narratives rather than national interest or peace. It prioritizes scenarios that enhance Trump’s image and public perception while downplaying civilian safety and strategic honesty. Melabia’s function elevates Trump’s narrative over reality, emphasizing war as content-rich and politically advantageous.

Love, Honor, Respect… and Technopoly

A Different Kind of Relationship If you have been following along, you likely recall Gen. She lives in Clairmont, the town bordering Savona. As a Type C “PleasureBot,” she is indistinguishable from a human in nearly every respect—a stark contrast to Alex (Type A, with her visible robotic chassis) and our other friends like SuzanneContinue reading “Love, Honor, Respect… and Technopoly”