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Two Futures of AI
Science fiction has never merely imagined the future—it has rehearsed our cultural anxieties and aspirations. Few fictional technologies illustrate this better than the contrasting visions of artificial intelligence found in Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001:…
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What Carlo Rotella Gets Right About AI in the Classroom — and Where Topoi Fits In
When I read Carlo Rotella’s recent essay (I’m a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse) about teaching in the age of AI, one student line lodged in my mind…
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The Significance of Building a Human-Centric API
In practical terms, this means that what started as an application called Topoi Tutor is becoming Topoi AI, which is evolving into a public API: a service that other applications, platforms, and organizations can…
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Star Trek Predicted the Best AI Interface
Why does the Star Trek computer still feel futuristic?Because it models the thing modern AI has struggled to deliver:human-initiated, context-aware, collaborative reasoning. It never interrupts.It explains its sources.It supports teams instead of replacing them.…
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Why HAL Still Haunts Our AI Debates
We worry about AI systems “going rogue” not because today’s models resemble HAL, but because the story of HAL taught us where unaccountable systems lead. HAL wasn’t dangerous because it was intelligent. It was…