Last week I was sitting in a waiting room when the news came across my phone that Ingenuity, the helicopter that NASA put on Mars three years ago, would fly no more. The news hit me hard, and I moaned ...

In our rush to understand and relate to AI, we have fallen into a seductive trap: Attributing human characteristics to these robust but fundamentally non-human systems. This anthropomorphizing of AI ...

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We’re obsessed with anthropomorphizing AI. That’s the 10-dollar term for treating non-human things like they’re people. It’s not a new phenomenon. We’ve been doing it to machines for centuries. When ...

When she goes to the grocery store, Lilianna Wilde will sometimes go for the shopping cart from which everyone else steers clear, the sad-looking one with the squeaky wheel. When she puts the dishes ...

Grok is a generative artificial intelligence (genAI) chatbot by xAI that, according to Elon Musk, is “the smartest AI in the world.” Grok’s latest upgrade is Ani, a porn-enabled anime girlfriend, ...