Mike Elgan

The socials are slamming Google for going along with Donald Trump's lie that Lake Ontario is now called Lake America.

If you search for a specific phrase in quotation marks, Google News will spam you with social media garbage instead of news that's relevant to your search.

You know that scene in Forrest Gump where Forrest sees Lieutenant Dan on the shore and is so distracted by him that he jumps off and swims to shore, allowing the boat to crash into the dock?

I don't know why, but creative thinking and planning with clarity and ambition are always helped by motion.

Maybe 12 years ago or so, I enjoyed newsgroup-like mailing list thing with three other guys who were all former co-workers of mine.

I’ll start with the punch line: Good writing is an expression of individuality, and a communication of life experience and human thought.

The machine gun was invented to make war less lethal.

We're just talking apes, after all.

You hear it all the time.

It’s OK for blog posts to be short.

AI is eating the world.

Social algorithms are expertly updated and optimized every day to draw you in, literally take your time, and consume more of your attention.

I've been blogging since the 90s.

How one man’s vibe-coding session evolved into a reckless global experiment where nobody’s accountable.

First they came for your eyes.

As we slouch toward a world of AI-made fake everything (and the distrust that follows) it’s time to spell out exactly how you’re using AI.

Superintelligent hosts Mike Elgan and Emily Forlini explore the link between churning homemade butter and the craving for authenticity in the new world of fake AI everything.

Perfection and polish now signal cheap AI.

Chinese parents using AI to shame their adult children into marriage aren’t weird.

I asked Gemini to read Book One of Meditations and concisely list the virtues Marcus Aurelius advocated.

Most people now get their news from social sites — and that’s a big problem.

Using digital twin technology to simulate real people can be powerful.

Host Leo Laporte is joined by Daniel Rubino, Sam Abuelsamid, and me!

Check out the latest episode of Intelligent Machines with Leo Laporte, Paris Martineau, and me, Mike Elgan.

This interview, conducted by Bill Kennedy, was surprisingly detailed, candid and biographical.

American federal agencies and private companies are now allowing weaponized foreign disinformation to spread and grow.

Everyone should be clamoring for tools and features that block AI content.

In this episode of Superintelligent, we dove headlong into the spectacle of the Meta Connect event, where Mark Zuckerberg and team set out to convince us that the future is wearable, voice-activated, wrist-twitching and dorky.

This episode of Superintelligent urgently explores the impact of social platforms on our daily lives.

Yes, it is.