Ghosts in the machine: Cory Doctorow’s latest book is about the potential and pitfalls of AI
Doctorow is no Luddite or Cassandra when it comes to AI.
31 Days of Stories 2023, Day 7: “The Robot and the Baby” by John McCarthy
The story may not work as fiction, but it does illuminate some of the philosophical and ontological dilemmas swirling around the notion of sentient robots.
Fail better: Stephen Marche on the one constant in a writer’s life
Failure is inevitable because perfection is unattainable.