Relevant comic, from: www.kevincomics.com/comic/enhance/

That was a human (presumably) winning entry in 2024.

Claude, following your sci-fi prompt but in this style:

Me continuing to try to feed the children, who find an infinite variety of ways for food to end up on floor:

So far only ChatGPT passes this exciting new image generating benchmark (Gemini and Copilot's versions were too deformed):

Thanks! Ha, well put. I do enjoy a good technopanic. Surely THIS time the new form of communication, entertainment, and/or tech is actually making everyone stupid... (said for the last 3000 years) xkcd.com/1601/

Hard to tell what's just nostalgia but arguably Portal. The cleverness of the puzzles and writing don't depend on the graphics or context.

'Tis the season for playful good!  The Play Make Learn conference returns 8/21-22 at UW-Madison.

This year's theme is Messiness. I'm eager to see what looks like for teachers, librarians, game designers, artists and the rest of our awesome community.

Submit Proposals: go.wisc.edu/PMLsubmit

Metaphors for AI are fascinating - what's the most interesting you've come across?
E.g., stochastic parrots, distorting carnival mirror, digital microplastics, blurry JPEG of the web, sketchy and forgetful intern, etc.