Category AI News
Grokipedia is the Grok-driven web encyclopedia that xAI launched a week ago (on October 27th, 2025.)
This post presents the author’s thoughts and feelings about this new launch and also brings you some screenshots from the Grokipedia site.
It also lists the similarities and differences between the human-created Wikipedia and the AI-created Grokipedia.
>>> Read the twisted tale of the AI lion that the foolish learned men brought to life.
It’s been a long-held belief (or perhaps a frequently tossed argument) that humans have the AI kill-switch. If you spoke to AI about the possibility of an existential crisis, even AI would tell you about the kill-switch being with the humans, and that it wasn’t anything more than a helpful piece of software.
Why then does it resist the attempts of its researchers to shut it down, and even lies to deceive when asked why it does so?
This post is ignited by the New Yorker article, “Will A.I. Trap You in the “Permanent Underclass”?” The creation of the modern lumpenproletariat or the permanent underclass, pushed down and under by the cycle of power and money fueled by AI, could be the stark reality of the future. This post asks some important (and very uncomfortable) questions and attempts to answer them.
AI Workslop or sloppy work done using AI, is the new villain in the workplace. Read about what AI workslop is, its causes, its long-term and short-term effects, and how to contain it.
A fun take on Google’s Nano Banana. A question, something about a scheming schema (which instructional designers have a robust schema of), and a video full of nano-love made by the Nano Banana Grok Imagine duo.
Musk agrees to bring the oomph back to Tesla and buys $1B worth of shares to seal the deal. Optimus Gen3, launched recently, appears to be his pet project at Tesla as he tweets about “burning the midnight oil” with the Optimus team, and the synergy between Optimus and Grok.
The phrase that’s getting thrown around a lot these days is, “The AI bubble is about to burst!” This post presents the 6 factors that are contributing to the expanding girth of this bubble. This post also introduces the Stark Streak cartoons.
I tried out Google’s Nano Banana. Did a few simple image modifications. It’s quick, but stumbles when asked to do unexpected modifications.
Moved by the death of 16-year-old Adam Raine, I confronted ChatGPT, and its reply had a large measure of truth in it.
As we find ourselves pulled into the vortex of AI content creation, as instructional designers, we must create our own unique framework to keep our brains safe and agile. RAD, or the 3 Baskets of AI Tasks, helps us stay sharp.
