Peter Biles

Season two of Amazon’s mega-funded The Rings of Power isn’t good. Season one wasn’t good, either, and despite having two years to correct the problems, the show continues to feel like the furthest thing from what J. R. R. Tolkien would…

The dystopian novel The Singularity by Dino Buzzati came out in 1960. It’s about a reclusive scientist who tries to create a sentient artificial intelligence (AI) based on his deceased wife. In the end, the machine starts to envy the humans…

Lolita was in the news again earlier this month. It isn’t the first time the classic 1955 novel by Vladimir Nabokov has been interrogated and found guilty. It’s a controversial novel, after all, was shocking when originally published, and continues to disturb and spark…

Last year, ChatGPT aced the bar exam. We’re also told that pretty soon, the program will have a “Ph.D.” level of intelligence. No one is precisely sure what that means, or whether it’s even intended as a compliment. (Are we…