All That Intelligence, and Still the Wrong Rectangle

Smartphone cameras can reconstruct faces, combine exposures and insert the photographer into the picture. Yet my Pixel cannot let me choose the familiar 3:2 format when shooting. While reviewers inspect brickwork for evidence of photographic genius, I spend my evenings cropping every single image. Apparently, artificial intelligence still requires considerable manual labour.

The Tesla FSD Paradox

Tesla may be close to a genuine breakthrough in supervised autonomous driving in Europe, and that deserves real recognition. Its vision-based system looks astonishingly capable in complex traffic. But that progress also makes Tesla’s everyday stupidity even funnier. When a car can seemingly understand cyclists, pedestrians and chaos, yet still fails at a blatantly obvious route, admiration quickly turns into disbelief.