AI vs. Hidden Word Puzzle

I asked ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok to solve a hidden word puzzle in a JPEG image. All of them totally failed the test — but they all failed different ways. * Gemini refused to analyze the image. * Grok returned an image of a scrabble board with Greek...

Random Story with Infinite Bookshelf

Chapter 1: Processing [This is the first chapter of a Random Story generated by my “Infinite Bookshelf” app for AI writing. I think it’s a cool concept. Feels familiar, like Beetlejuice or Ghost Town, but also original, like it’s going some...

Echo: The Birth of Digital Humans

Chapter 1: The Backup “Dr. Saito, you did the right thing cooperating with us.” FBI Special Agent Sam Porter surveyed the advanced laboratory, mentally cataloging the unfamiliar technology. The government had stumbled onto a goldmine. “I didn’t have many choices,” the...

Telesurgery Fiction is Now Fact

In a groundbreaking medical milestone, Dr. Vip Patel, founder and medical director of the Global Robotics Institute at AdventHealth Celebration, successfully performed a robotic prostatectomy on a patient located in Angola, Africa — while operating from the Nicholson...

AI Does Robotic Surgery (Kind Of)

[Summarized from “The Batch” newsletter: https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-313/] An autonomous robot performed intricate surgical operations without human intervention. What’s new: Ji Woong (Brian) Kim and colleagues at Johns Hopkins,...