Category: Exploring AI

Until very recently, hearing a familiar voice or seeing a familiar face counted as evidence. Maybe not proof in a courtroom sense, but enough proof for ordinary life. If your boss called, you assumed it was your boss. If a family member sounded scared, you assumed the emergency was real. That assumption is breaking faster…

It’s GTC again, and this year NVIDIA finally said the quiet part out loud. The center of gravity has shifted. The keynote energy was no longer really about gamers, prettier pixels, or even training alone. It was about inference, AI factories, and rack-scale systems built to answer questions and carry out tasks in real time.…

Have you ever asked a chatbot a perfectly reasonable question, gotten back a clean, confident answer, and still felt something was off? Sometimes the problem is the model. But sometimes the deeper problem is that the question itself quietly bent the search before the model ever began. I explored to try to get to the…

You’re on a tight deadline. A client email thread lands with names, pricing back-and-forth, and a thinly veiled threat to walk. You copy the whole thing into Claude or ChatGPT: “Summarise the issues and draft a calm reply.” Feels like asking a sharp colleague for a second set of eyes. Until it isn’t. I explored…

Have you noticed everyone suddenly talking about ‘behavioural AI’ as the missing piece after the big technical leaps? I call it relationship literacy—and it’s been the through-line of this column since day one.   Smarter agents, same jagged shape Last week the models took another visible leap. Claude Sonnet 4.6 became the default for free and Pro…

Curiosity gets the better of you. You land on an AI chatbot site for the first time, and there it is: a blank box with a blinking cursor and the cheerful prompt “Ask me anything.”   But what? How? Can I break it somehow? Will it judge me if I say something weird? Should I…

Have you ever wondered if that blog post you wrote years ago, or even a casual chat with an AI assistant, is quietly helping train the next big model? I explored to try to get to the root of the issue. The quiet harvest Large language models are built on enormous piles of data—text, images,…

Have you noticed the AI headlines feeling a bit more grounded lately—like the industry’s traded its rocket ship dreams for a sturdy pickup truck? I explored this week’s news to try to get to the root of the shift. The bill is coming due The past week painted a clear picture: the era of endless…

Have you ever wished your AI chatbot would stop just suggesting recipes and actually go chop the onions for you? I explored to try to get to the root of the issue. What’s all the buzz about? Lately, everyone’s talking about “agentic AI” and “physical AI” like they’re the next big leap. Agentic AI isn’t…