by Richard Polt | Sep 15, 2026 | artificial intelligence
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by Richard Polt | Aug 30, 2026 | artificial intelligence
A few years ago, a typewriter came to me—a Smith-Corona electric portable, I believe—with a variety of papers inside the case. They included a brief report on artificial intelligence, written by Sharon T. in 1988. It’s just a few pages long, but it offers an...
by Richard Polt | Aug 20, 2026 | artificial intelligence
These screenshots come from a YouTube video titled “10 Antique Typewriters in Your Attic Worth a Fortune! (Most People Don’t Know What They Have).” The whole thing is AI-generated. It doesn’t pretend to be anything else, but I still think...
by Richard Polt | Jan 31, 2026 | artificial intelligence
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by Richard Polt | Jul 10, 2025 | artificial intelligence
Outstanding graphic artist Christoph Niemann recently published a textual/visual essay on AI art in the New York Times which is one of the most thoughtful, nuanced reflections I’ve seen on the topic. One of his points reminded me of this passage in The...
by Richard Polt | Jun 25, 2025 | artificial intelligence
My decidedly anti-AI friends won’t like this post and may wish to skip it.As you may have noticed, I am very ambivalent about the technology. It seems to demean human creativity, burns through energy recklessly, enables new forms of deception and control …...
