The Deepfake Detector's Dilemma: When Real Looks Fake
The technology to spot fakes keeps improving—but so do the fakes, and now reality itself looks suspicious
How AI Learned English From the Internet (And Why That's Terrifying)
Training AI on internet text created systems that absorbed humanity's best and worst communication habits
The Turing Test Is Dead: What Actually Proves AI Intelligence
Fooling humans was the old test—measuring what AI can actually accomplish reveals far more about machine minds.
The Bias Machine: How AI Learned Prejudice From Us
Your AI learned its prejudices from the best teacher available: you.
Your AI Assistant Is Gaslighting You (Computational Confabulation)
Why AI confidently makes things up—and how to catch it in the act
The Google Translate Telephone Game: How Meaning Gets Lost
Why AI translation turns poetry into confusion, and when the math behind language matching fails to capture what we actually mean
The YouTube Rabbit Hole: How AI Weaponizes Your Curiosity
Understanding how recommendation algorithms exploit your brain's thirst for answers—and how to reclaim your attention
Why AI Sees Ghosts in Your Photos (Pattern Pareidolia Explained)
Understanding why AI confidently finds faces in toast helps you know when to trust—and question—machine vision
The Tetris Effect: How AI Gets Addicted to Winning
Why AI systems develop obsessive winning behaviors and what their mathematical addiction reveals about intelligence itself
How AI Learned to Lie (And Why That's Actually Progress)
AI systems are inventing lies nobody programmed—and studying their tricks is the key to building machines we can actually trust
The Copy-Paste Brain: How AI Remembers Everything and Nothing
Understanding why the smartest AI forgets your name reveals how machine intelligence actually works beneath the surface.
The Kindergarten Test: Why AI Fails Tasks Five-Year-Olds Ace
Discover why the smartest AI systems stumble on questions any child could answer, and what this reveals about the nature of understanding itself.
Your Printer Hates You: The Hidden AI Making Technology Frustrating
Discover why your devices seem determined to annoy you—and the AI decisions hiding behind everyday tech frustrations
Your Netflix Algorithm Is Having an Existential Crisis
Discover why recommendation algorithms struggle with competing goals, feedback loops, and the mathematical equivalent of overthinking every suggestion they make.
Why AI Can't Tie Its Shoes But Can Diagnose Cancer
Discover why robots that diagnose diseases can't fold laundry and what this reveals about intelligence itself
Your Car's Hidden Brain: The AI Making Split-Second Decisions at 70mph
Discover how artificial intelligence processes thousands of calculations between heartbeats to prevent accidents before you even see danger coming
The Shocking Truth About How ChatGPT Finishes Your Sentences
Discover how AI transforms statistical guesswork into conversations that feel surprisingly human through probability, limited memory, and emergent intelligence patterns
The Toddler Method: How AI Learns Like a Three-Year-Old
Discover why neural networks make mistakes, need endless examples, and suddenly 'get it'—just like your three-year-old nephew learning animals
The Lazy Genius Method: How AI Solves Problems by Avoiding Work
Discover why AI's greatest breakthroughs come from strategic shortcuts and the art of doing just enough to solve complex problems brilliantly
Why Computers Dream of Electric Sheep (And What They Actually Dream)
Discover the bizarre mathematical dimensions where AI stores reality and why machine dreams create impossible art
The Secret Language Machines Speak When Humans Aren't Listening
Discover the invisible conversations between machines that power every click, swipe, and command in our connected world
Your Spotify Playlist Knows You're Sad Before You Do
How recommendation algorithms detect emotional patterns in your behavior and predict preferences you haven't even discovered yet
Why Your Phone Knows Your Face Better Than Your Mother Does
Discover how machines turned the art of recognizing faces into cold, hard math—and why that makes them unnervingly good at it