The painting on the cover of the first US paperback edition of The Hobbit has a lion, a fruit tree, and a pair of emus. There are no lions in The Hobbit. There are no fruit trees or emus. J.R.R. Tolkien was baffled. He wrote to the publisher, “Where is this place? Why emus? And what…
If you’re a writer, you know about Save The Cat, a technique for crafting plots for novels and screenplays. Here’s a glimpse at an inside secret for everyone else. Jim and I were novices when we sat down to write Uncommon Scents, a funny novel that you should read out loud to your children except…
AI technology is in a strange place. I tried using AI for a simple task this week. I wasn’t expecting to deal with hallucinations. Let me give you some background. ChatGPT got one of the most successful product launches of all time when it became publicly available a year ago. It crystallized the hopes and…
Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg believe that someday you will pick up your augmented reality glasses exactly as often as you pick up your phone today – which is to say, from the moment you wake up until you go to sleep, all day, every day, for a thousand reasons. You’ll use the glasses for…