opinion

Cry Havoc and Let Slip the Bots of War

The Iran–US war of 2026 is already being cataloged by military historians and silicon valley boosters as a "technological milestone", the moment warfare finally caught up with the information age. I...

Mar 20, 2026

Opinion: Grok Unveiled

Did Grok finally go too far? Grok did it again. We've already seen xAI's... idiosyncratic LLM behave erratically in the past, but now to Hitler Grok, antisemitic Grok, white genocide Grok and pro-Krem...

Jan 9, 2026

Opinion: Will 2026 be the year when AI grows up?

The year when AI gets to work 2026 has begun to acquire the faintly mythic aura once reserved for flying cars and cold fusion. It is the year when artificial intelligence, we are told, finally "grows ...

Dec 26, 2025

Opinion: AI has no common sense

A common faculty Andrej Karpathy a recent podcast with Dwarkesh Patel, which is truly fascinating and full of some real warmth and humour (and also, at nearly 2 and a half hours long, an indication...

Dec 19, 2025

Opinion: Hey Siri - what happened to Apple?

Another VP bites the dust The recent announcement by John Giannandrea, the Senior Vice President for Machine Learning and AI Strategy that he will leave Apple by Spring next spring could be somet...

Dec 6, 2025

Opinion: Elon Musk wants more people to drink the Kool-Aid

Who needs the wisdom of crowds? In his 2004 book, The Wisdom of Crowds, James Surowiecki outlined his hypothesis that a diverse group of independent people is collectively smarter than an individua...

Nov 10, 2025

Opinion: Just what Big Media needs - another billionaire owner

What do you give the man who has everything? There was an old joke in the 1990s (which is effectively the Jurassic era in tech terms), that the purpose of Larry Ellison was so that Bill Gates couild ...

Oct 1, 2025

Opinion: Can ChatGPT be your research assistant? It depends on your discipline.

Your PhD Expert? Don't hold your breath. As with some 700 million other people, I've been playing around with ChatGPT 5 and... it's okay. By this, I mean that it is one of the leading AIs out the...

Aug 9, 2025

Opinion: Big Tech's latest excuse - we lacked intelligence

Plausible Deniability? As reports emerge of an agreement between Microsoft and the Israel Defense Forces to store massive amounts of information about Palestinians on its servers, the tech giant tries...

Aug 7, 2025

Opinion: It's not MABA - yet

America's AI Action Plan Things could have worked out very differently. In December 2022, the Biden administration proposed a Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights. The Bill outlined five key proposal...

Jul 25, 2025