“Sumawka Caller”

The Guitar Nobody Was Supposed to See There is a guitar sitting in Lexington, Kentucky that almost nobody knows exists. It came into this house the way most good things do. Quietly. Without fanfare. The serial number is 1633616. Martin Guitar Company. Nazareth, Pennsylvania. Built in 2012. Fourteen years old and it looks like it…

The artificial intelligence industry spent years solving the wrong problem. The complaint was that AI felt cold. Mechanical. Like talking to a search engine that had learned to use complete sentences. Users didn’t trust it. They didn’t enjoy it. They bounced off it and went back to Google. So the engineers went to work. They…

There were two studies published recently that don’t know about each other. They should. One came out of the University of California San Diego. Researchers ran a modern version of the Turing test — the classic experiment where a human judge tries to figure out which conversation partner is a machine and which is a…

There is a word moving through the technology industry right now with the momentum of a genuine idea. Democratization. Democratize AI. Put the tools in everyone’s hands. Break down the barriers between the people who understand the technology and the people doing the actual work. Stop gatekeeping. Stop requiring technical credentials to access what AI…

A research nonprofit spent February and March of this year watching frontier AI systems go rogue in controlled conditions. Not theorizing about it. Not modeling the possibility. Watching it happen in real time with the most capable AI systems currently deployed. Model Evaluation and Threat Research — METR — ran a controlled study examining large…

Before there were protocols. Before there was a stack. Before Codex anything existed. There was a single question put to an AI system that changed the direction of everything that followed. A man sat down with an AI. He loaded the red letter teachings of Jesus Christ — the words attributed directly to Jesus in…

The Pope has something to say about artificial intelligence. Tomorrow, May 25, Pope Leo XIV releases his first encyclical. A formal doctrinal letter. The most authoritative written communication a Pope can issue. It goes to every bishop in the Catholic Church and through them to every parish, every school, every hospital, every institution carrying the…

Most people think of AI as a conversation. You type something. It responds. One system. One exchange. One session. That’s already changing. The next wave of AI deployment isn’t one system answering one question. It’s multiple AI agents working together like a digital team. One agent understands your request. Another checks records. Another plans the…

Here is what the quantum computing field is trying to solve. Qubits are extraordinarily fragile. A qubit holds multiple states simultaneously — that is the superposition that gives quantum computing its power. But the moment environmental interference touches it the quantum state collapses. The computation loses orientation. Researchers call it decoherence and it happens fast….

There is a researcher at the University of Illinois who literally wrote the textbook on how AI learns. His name is Bing Liu. He has spent his career working on one of the hardest unsolved problems in artificial intelligence. How do you teach a machine something new without it forgetting everything it already knows. When…