Make it Ghibli: Howl’s Moving Castle and GenAI Slop

Back in 1986 my grandmother—the late, great Diana Wynne Jones—wrote a book called Howl’s Moving Castle. Years later, it was adapted by Hayao Miyazaki into an Oscar-nominated film of the same name. That’s one of many reasons why I hate Ghibli-themed AI slop.

Data Center 2035: Sam Altman and “Intellectual Capacity”

Is AI getting “smarter”? Are we getting more stupid? Last week, Sam Altman suggested that a single AI data center will be “smarter than the current total intellectual capacity on earth” in 2035. There’s a lot to unpack there…