A developer released Human Tool for Claude Code, a satirical MCP server that treats humans as high-latency, stochastic tools for AI coding agents, inverting the typical agentic loop. The project, avai…
Computer scientist Jaron Lanier told Neil deGrasse Tyson and Negin Farsad on StarTalk that AI systems are not black boxes but are filled with people and their data, reiterating his 2023 New Yorker ess…
Jaron Lanier and Neil deGrasse Tyson discussed the concept of 'There Is No AI' in a YouTube video, arguing that current AI systems are not truly intelligent but rather sophisticated pattern-matching t…
A blog post draws parallels between Charles Bukowski's approach to writer's block and the need for AI developers to prioritize quality over quantity, citing Bukowski's poems 'the block' and 'the trash…
Computer scientist Jaron Lanier argues that the term 'artificial intelligence' is misleading and dangerous, urging people to view technologies like GPT-4 as tools rather than creatures. Lanier, writin…
Susan Lammers' 1985 book 'Programmers at Work,' featuring interviews with 19 pioneering software developers including Bill Gates and Charles Simonyi, has been reissued for its 40th anniversary. The bo…
Jaron Lanier, widely recognized as the father of virtual reality, argued in a recent interview that the most promising and overlooked future of artificial intelligence lies in collaborative, human-cen…