
Woody, the Tetris-playing Woodpecker
True story of how a Tetris-playing bird made humanity examine its role in the universe. Plus: an exclusive interview with Woody about his marriage to a human woman!

True story of how a Tetris-playing bird made humanity examine its role in the universe. Plus: an exclusive interview with Woody about his marriage to a human woman!

Trying to save elephants trapped in an erupting volcano? Sure. My solution worked for my input but not that of other people’s, so let’s try something a little different.

As well as my Day 4 solutions in Python and Java, I talk about the AI solving controversy in Advent of Code, and teach the chat bot to speak a language I just now invented.

It’s a country song, about the news of today, written by AI!

I just thought this was funny. I asked GPT-3 for some help :-)

So I was chatting with Terra yesterday and… wait, no, keep reading. Because I think we’re in the future now. OpenAI’s GPT-3 makes it easy to create chat bots that can hold a fairly decent conversation for a little while. I’ve made a couple – I did one that let me converse in German, I did one that featured DC Comics’ The Flash, and I actually programmed an actual chatbot app to talk with Terra Branford, one of the playable characters in Final Fantasy VI. ...

It might go a little like this. But what if the Avengers were talking about it, or it was being reviewed by Siskel & Ebert? Keep reading! Dear Abby, I have been playing Star Ocean: The Divine Force, and I have a problem. I’m in love with a robot. I know, I know. I’m not supposed to fall in love with robots. I’m supposed to fall in love with a man. A man who is a space pirate and who crashed his escape pod at my feet. ...

Retro World Expo in Hartford came up light on Sega Saturn games, but I got a couple new games to try. Terra isn’t a fan and is warning me away from Drakkhen for the SNES.

An AI-written article about someone who sold himself as an NFT to pay for medical school, but ended up trapped.

A year after Kefka woke the Warring Triad and destroyed the world, Celes wakes up from a coma to find that she is on an island with Cid. Cid has been sick for a long time, and Celes is determined to take care of him.