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  • Lisa Frankenstein Will Be Aliiiiiiive!!! with Love in 2024

    Lisa Frankenstein Will Be Aliiiiiiive!!! with Love in 2024

    Over the decades, there’ve been various interpretations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in film and TV. Some stories play things fairly straight, but others offer some kind of new (and often humorous) take on the titular monster: what if the monster were one of Dracula’s best friends, or what if he was tasked with saving the…


  • The 11 Best (and Worst) Sentient Robots From Sci-Fi

    The 11 Best (and Worst) Sentient Robots From Sci-Fi

    Earlier this month, a Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, claimed his employer had inadvertently created a sentient AI chatbot system, called Language Model for Dialogue Applications — or LaMDA, for short. Lemoine had been tasked with seeing if the LaMDA’s programming showed any tendencies toward hate speech or discrimination in conversation with the average person, the…