Complete index · 109 essays and counting
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Every essay since the first one, published August 2022 — “The One Technology You SHOULD Freak Out About.” Four years later, we’re all freaking out.
202214
1 Ot The One Technology You SHOULD Freak Out About 2 Aw AI Will Transform How You Write 3 Ad AI Debating the Ethics of AI 4 De DALL-E & No-Code AI: Your New Creative Partner 5 Bg A Beginners Guide to No-Code AI Artwork Tools (Reviewing Craiyon, DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable… 6 Ca Can AI Create a Comic Book? 7 Ga Generative AI is Your “Boomstick” 8 Ba Be Anything You Want to Be… For $3 9 Wa What AI Thinks CEOs Look Like 10 We Weird AI 11 Ic My Interview with ChatGPT 12 Bt The Battle of the AIs: Artificial Intelligence vs. Academic Integrity 13 Ph The Perfect Holiday Gift 14 Wh What AI Likes About North Korea, and Dislikes About Where You’re From
202320
15 Ef Excerpt from Artificial America: The Price of Immortality 16 Wb “Writing” a Book with AI- My Forward to Artificial America 17 Cw Can You Write and Publish a Book in 24 Hours with AI’s Help? 18 Od OpenAI Doesn’t Know Its AI 19 Pp The Power of Public Domain: How Generative AI Can Breathe New Life into Old Works 20 Ya Yes, AI Can Create A Comic Book 21 Fv Finding My Voice: Exploring AI Voice Cloning 22 Wg Welcome GPT-4! 23 Wn When AI Outwits AI: Can OpenAI Recognize Writing From GPT-4? 24 Ex Except from ‘Sherlock Holmes and the Labyrinth of Choices’ Written by GPT-4 25 Cg Can GPT-4 Raise $5000 in 30 Days? 26 Bi Breaking into the Generative AI Industry: Your Simple Guide to Landing a Job 27 Ar The AutoGPT Revolution 28 Fw The Future of Work: Are We Ready for the Digital Age? 29 Ea Essential AI Podcasts 30 Ae Are We in an AI Bubble? 31 Df Deep Fakes For All: The Proliferation of AI Voice Cloning 32 Af Are you freaking out about AI yet? 33 Ai AI Explainer: Supervised Learning 34 Mc I Made ChatGPT My Personal Chef
202427
35 Dd A Deep Dive into Text-to-Image AI: How Google’s New ImageFX Stacks Up 36 Fb From Bits to Bites: Where AI Fails to Comprehend Humans 37 Wi Will AI Take Your Job? Part 1: The End of History Illusion 38 Wl Will AI Take Your Job? Part 2: Embracing AI 39 Wt Will AI Take Your Job? Part 3: More AI = More Leisure? 40 Dc Ducking the Copyright Police: OpenAI’s DALL-E vs Iconic IP 41 Go Good AI, Bad Design or When Less Is More 42 An AI: The Emergence of a New Species? 43 Il The iPod Lesson for AI: Stop Marketing Tokens and Start Marketing Solutions 44 Ha Her: AI At the Movies At the Movies 45 Aa AlphaGo: AI at the Movies At the Movies 46 Li The Lasting Impact of 2001: A Space Odyssey on AI At the Movies 47 Wd Will AI Destroy the Usefulness of College? 48 Da Does AI Get the Joke? Assessing the Sense of Humor of Large Language Models 49 Gs Ghost in the Shell: Where Does the Human End and the Machine Begin? At the Movies 50 Em Ex Machina: When AI Outsmarts Its Creators At the Movies 51 Rr Rooting for Robots- AI: Artificial Intelligence At the Movies 52 Mb Memories of Blade Runner At the Movies 53 At The AI Revolution: Two Years In 54 Mp Metropolis Part 8: Scenes from AI Movie History At the Movies 55 Av AI vs. Human Authors: Reevaluating New York Times’ Beach Read Experiment 56 As America’s Next Top Large Language Model 57 Be The Best AI Model for You! 58 Ua An Upgrade for AI Detection? 59 Wo Would You Trust It More If It Wasn’t Called AI? 60 Dt Do They Know It’s Litigation Time? 61 Bs The Best AI Books of 2024
202529
62 Hu Hanging up on ChatGPT’s Operator 63 4y A 40-Year-Old Security Hack to Outsmart AI Scams 64 Ss Swimming in Slop: How We’ll Navigate the Coming Flood of AI Content 65 Aj AI Detection Arms Race: Judging the AI Writing Detectors 66 Dp A Deep Dive into AI Deep Research 67 Hs Hollywood’s AI Revolution: Lessons from NVIDIA GTC 2025 68 Cn Can AI Create a Comic Book? 69 Op OpenAI Drawing the Line on Copyright Enforcement: An Experiment in AI-Generated Characters 70 Eh The Entire History of You: Testing Perfect AI Memory 71 Tw Two-Word Review of Google’s New Veo 3 Text-to-Video Tool: Mind Blown 72 1s The 12-Second Voice Heist: How I Cloned the Slate Money Podcast Hosts 73 Dg A Day with Grok 4: Hype Machine or Hyper-Intelligent? 74 Wk Woke Or Not? Putting AI To the Test 75 Ta Teaching AI to Cheat: When Language Models Learn the Volkswagen Playbook 76 G5 GPT-5: A Revolutionary Leap or Incremental Step? 77 Ag AI Will Replace You — And That’s a Good Thing: Guest Post By “Evil Mike” 78 Gb Google Built an AI for Kids’ Books. I Used It for Corporate Propaganda 79 Ty Three Years of Generative AI: From Help to Getting Better 80 Hm How Many People Has GenAI Killed? 81 Os OpenAI’s Sora 2 Won’t Touch Disney (But Google Will) 82 Sa Should AI Tell You How to Vote? 83 Bc The Borg Chart. Part 1: The Tools I Use to Build My AI Org 84 Wr Where I Draw the Line with AI (And Why You Should Too) 85 Im Infinite Monkeys, Six Jars, and the Future of AI 86 G3 Gemini 3: The New King of AI? My Reality Check 87 Ah Your AI Guide to Holiday Shopping 88 Nb Nano Banana Pro Can Make a Comic Book 89 Ab The AI Books That Helped Me Make Sense of 2025 90 Oa The Only AI Benchmark That Matters
202619
91 Gg Google Says its AI Documentary Got 300 Million Views At the Movies 92 Al AI Agents Go Fundraising: A Tale of Lost Passwords, Crypto Wallets, and Marxist SpongeBob Bots 93 C2 Can a $20 AI Do My $10,000 Taxes? 94 St The Startup Slop Problem: Infinite Instant Businesses 95 Yd Yes, I Did My $10,000 Taxes With a $20 AI 96 Sh Should You Have a Baby In the Age of AI? Discussing The AI Doc At the Movies 97 Wj What Jackie Robinson’s Ticket Stub Teaches Us About Compounding 98 Ci ChatGPT Images 2.0: The King of AI Image Generation 99 Tr Trillions: AI Companies vs. 125 Years of Economic History 100 Tb Tokenmaxxing Is the Best Worst Idea in Corporate AI 101 F5 Fable 5: I Have the World’s Most Dangerous AI and Mostly Don’t Need It 102 Bo Bots*+%ing 103 Ms Meta’s Muse: A Marvelously Mid Model 104 Cp Can AI Predict the Future? Better Call Sol! 105 Th This Article Is 50% AI. Will Substack Catch It? 106 Rp You’re Probably Wrong About Data Center Electricity Usage. I Was. 107 Rw Robots Without AI 108 Ws When Robots Stop Being Funny 109 Fy Four Years of Freaking Out Over AI
Numbered from the first one. Violet marks the ten also filed under AI at the Movies. Element 01 · The Newsletter