Above Tree Line: Coherence isn't evidence
What do AI agents, old-time baseball announcers, and a chicken shed have in common? Holly Vezina explores our remarkable ability to turn fragments of evidence into stories we believe.
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What do AI agents, old-time baseball announcers, and a chicken shed have in common? Holly Vezina explores our remarkable ability to turn fragments of evidence into stories we believe.
When a Reachy Mini tells Holly's son about a limitation it never learned through experience, our writer wonders what happens when a machine speaks about an inherited fact as if it discovered it for itself.
NASA used seismic waves to reveal the hidden interior of Mars. Now a new instrument is peering inside Claude - and finding a small, illuminated workspace surrounded by an ocean of activity the model cannot fully explain.
What if the best guide to understanding artificial intelligence isn't Silicon Valley, but an octopus? Holly Vezina follows an unexpected thread from quantum physics to the ocean in search of a different way of thinking about intelligence.
From a train nearing Cologne, Holly Vezina reflects on beauty, mortality, and why humanity’s capacity to feel - and for reverence - is likely to remain essential in a world shaped by superintelligence.
Not only are there more AI sessions than you can possibly make it to - about 50 over five days - but BSW is free, it's weird, and it's all yours.
Your brain on AI: What the research says about why you can't turn it off. A few thoughts about sharks, Alexander Hamilton, a morning walk, and something called "reward uncertainty."
After watching "The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist," our newest columnist, Holly Vezina, reflects upon a film about superintelligence, parental dread, and our obligation to face the AI future together.
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