Image depicts an anthropomorphic computer with a face and multiple arms; the machine is typing and pushing buttons on a control panel. The image was published in Artzy …
Computer Plant Life
"Thе Commodore РЕТ offers you а safe passage through the primeval swamр of computerization," says the ad copy accompanying this uncredited illustration in a June 1981 issue of Personal Computer World: That image and ad copy offers a perfect example of how most retro tech illustration works: Visualize the hell
Anthropic experiments with real-time UI generation on Claude
What do we know so far? "Imagine with Claude" will be released as a temporary demo for certain plans (only Max?). Users will be interacting with a classic desktop UI where windows and apps are managed by the AI itself.
To Make Sense of the Present, Brains May Predict the Future | Quanta Magazine
A controversial theory suggests that perception, motor control, memory and other brain functions all depend on comparisons between ongoing actual experiences and the brain’s modeled expectations.
Meaning after an AI eucatastrophe
Imagining this possible future illuminates meaning here and now as well.
Cyborgs vs rooms, two visions for the future of computing
Posted on Monday 13 Oct 2025. 698 words, 12 links. By Matt Webb.
The future is low-tech: lessons from the early 2000s ft. Jésabel DC | Config 2026
The future is low-tech: lessons from the early 2000s ft. Jésabel DC | Config 2026
Drawing to the Screen | Web Browser Engineering
Desktop and laptop computers run operating systems that provide desktop environments: windows, buttons, and a mouse. So responsibility ends up split: programs control their windows, but the desktop environment controls the screen. Therefore:
Jeff Hawkins Is Finally Ready to Explain His Brain Research (Published 2018)
He created the mobile computing companies Palm and Handspring. But for decades his passion has been studying how the human brain works.
Initial explorations of Anthropic’s new Computer Use capability
Two big announcements from Anthropic today: a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet model and a new API mode that they are calling computer use. (They also pre-announced 3.5 Haiku, but that’s …
The brain in the machine: How AI could help explain how we think | IBM
Scientists are using large AI models to predict patterns of brain activity at scale, a development that researchers say is pushing neuroscience toward a new kind of digital imaging.
Prof. Judy Fan: Cognitive Tools for Making the Invisible Visible
Prof. Judy Fan: Cognitive Tools for Making the Invisible Visible
On working machines
In part one, on thinking machines, I explored two facets of the philosophy of artificial intelligence: “intelligence”, and consciousness. That left an important topic to consider for this post: the...
