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The folks at TryAI put Fable to the test in directing a music video. The AI glitches show up from the start and continue. But it's even more unsettling than this. When AI tries to create and ...

The nearest lightning was 1,200 miles away. At least that's what the weather site reported. When lightning is that unlikely, we don't worry about it much. It turns out that this is the ...

There are lots of things you can do, but it's not clear you should. OpenAI has virtually unlimited resources. And in addition to building a chat-based AI, they chose to launch pretty good ima ...

The right words in the right sequence create information. Ideas that change our world. The first kind of word salad allows the writer to hide. Fancy words, carefully juxtaposed, saying nothing. Thi ...

Even though it's invisible, easily transported and weightless, software used to stick around. It took years to architect and build a complex bit of software, and thousands of people to help m ...

The meeting is now broken. Even if you were actually engaging with the attendees before, it's over. You took a new medium and stuffed an old one into it, changed the dynamic and ruined it. Zo ...

When we upgrade something in our lives, the thing we used to be satisfied with is no longer satisfying. That's the nature of an upgrade. After a certain point, the only thing we're buyi ...

This is a useful term. It helps us understand a topic or theory that can be considered from multiple points of view by people engaging with good intent. "Pluto is a planet" was a contro ...

Last year, the recording session I did with Mel Robbins was going so well that her producers asked me to stick around-four hours later, we had recorded enough for two episodes. One never know ...

The moment you start treating your customers as captives, they begin to make other plans. It might take a while, but they always end up leaving. The first step is warning away their friends. On the ...