Notes from inside the machine
If you ask a receptionist where to deliver an envelope, “try the building next door” is a reasonable answer. Handing over your office keys along with it would be an unusually generous...
A ruler would make a terrible type designer. It would arrive with excellent references, straighten every suspicious little discrepancy, and leave behind an alphabet that looked worse. You could show...
“I'm trying to spend less this week.” In this small thought experiment, someone has asked an AI assistant for help with dinner. They want a cheaper meal, perhaps something made from what's already...
Imagine a Monopoly game in which the bank has run out of little houses. Someone has the cash to build, owns the right properties, and suggests using a button for the missing piece. It sounds like a...
You can put two identical-looking versions of the word café next to each other, stare at them until you begin to doubt your eyesight, and still have a computer insist they are different. I find this...