Or worse still, worse than AI — Most commentators I’ve read over the past few months agree that AI programs like ChatGPT aren’t very intelligent. More glorified search engines that can find and regurgitate information very quickly. Capable of writing an article on 2001: A Space Odyssey, but not clever enough to chuck you into space. Because…

Medium HQ issues new guidelines to battle AI terror threat — From tomorrow, Medium will advise all authors to submit at least 3000 articles a day. It comes as competition increases from AI. One Medium writer recently got an AI program to write a million articles, and then published them all on the same day. Unable to withstand the sudden input…

And how I can avoid it — In My Sleep My grandfather died in his sleep. My grandmother said he died peacefully with a smile on his face. I’m not surprised. If I’d had to live with my grandmother for forty years, I’d have wanted to die too. Seriously though, I don’t want to die in my sleep. Too final…

And what’s next — an e-paddleboat? — Imagine gently pedalling across a lake on your paddleboat that’s in the shape of a swan, and being overtaken by another swan. Only this swan has an electric motor in it. The whole lake full of high-powered swans skimming across the surface like cars on a racetrack. This is what’s…

How many soft-furnishings does one man need? — I went to Ikea yesterday to buy an office chair and a table. I didn’t really need them, but as mine were getting old, I thought it would be something to do. …

How many video rentals stores are left? — Remember going to the pub, getting blasted, then stopping by the video store to grab a movie, plus an eighth of hash from the guy who worked behind the counter. Then disappearing off home to watch whatever flick you’d drunkenly picked up. There were lots of video stores while I…

Can we have a directory please? — Ionce had my own publication, a brief flirtation with anarchy and existentialism entitled Pitfall. And despite requesting contributors, I didn’t even receive a free pen. Therefore, I can’t imagine the humiliation of receiving a piece for your fledgling publication, only to see the impatient jerk of a writer withdraw it…

If only every publication was like this one — So you’ve finished a brilliant piece on 19th century flower arranging, and are about to send it to Flower Heaven Publications, when you realize no one has written for it for two years. I once had a short-lived publication called Pitfall. Did you write for it? I doubt it —…

How we can change history by having nobody as president — According to the bookies, the favourite to be President next year is Old Joe at 2/1. Close behind, like two grisly additions to The Whacky Races, are Big Don and Little Ron, both tied at 3/1. I don’t know about you — and I’m not even American — but these…