Cannot wait for AI-generated trap streets https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/1/24057994/google-maps-generative-ai-llm-local-guide-search

Teaching my cats about the cruel inflexibility of automation as they meow furiously at me to make the machine-mother feed them 40 minutes early.

still cannot get over how bad the NYT dealbook Elon Musk interview was. like I assume not being asked any hard questions is a precondition of a Musk appearance, but if I worked for the company whose name was on a pivotal First Amendment legal precedent, I would feel awfully embarrassed not bringing up one of the world’s richest men filing a transparent and carefully forum-shopped anti-speech lawsuit against his critics

Referring to my cats’ new automatic feeder as “the machine-mother” in a series of ominous text messages.

I’m not sure what’s actually happening here but the parsing of “AI” from longstanding games industry techniques like procedural generation feels like it’s going to start getting increasingly fine. https://www.gamespot.com/articles/silent-hill-ascension-isnt-written-by-ai-dev-insists-says-suggesting-otherwise-is-a-veiled-insult/1100-6519527/

Alan Wake 2 is the first game to successfully simulate zoning out during a work meeting to think about a weird piece of trash you found.

It’s been 16 years and I am not nearly enough of a Valve nerd to find this out: is it actually canon that GLaDOS knows what happens after you die.