Last month I asked a chatbot to book me a flight. It handed me a list of airline websites and wished me luck. A friend of mine asked an AI agent to do the exact same thing. Hers just… booked the flight. Confirmation email and all. Same request, two totally different outcomes. That’s basically the […]
Why AI hallucinates is one of the strangest problems in tech right now, and it starts with a story you’ll instantly recognize. Imagine you ask your friend a trivia question, and instead of saying “I don’t know,” they just… make up an answer. Confidently. With zero hesitation. And they say it in the exact same […]
Picture a kid learning to shoot free throws. First shot: airball, way too far left. Second shot: hits the rim, a little better. Third shot: swish. Nobody handed that kid a physics textbook on projectile motion. They just threw the ball, watched where it landed, and nudged their next attempt based on the error. Miss […]
I found an old phone in a drawer last month. Hadn’t touched it in almost two days. Battery health? 84%. That number bugged me for days, honestly. The thing had been sitting still the entire time. No charging cycles, no screen-on time, nothing. So why was it already down 16%? Turns out, I had the […]