About

AI with a wink, a smile, and zero tolerance for hype

Welcome to AI World — your one-stop shop for AI explainers, stories, roasts, and the occasional existential crisis delivered with a straight face (and maybe a side of memes).

Yes, we know: everyone already knows what AI is. ChatGPT wrote your cousin’s wedding toast, Grok told your boss what you really think of him, and your fridge is now predicting your midnight snacks with terrifying accuracy. The honeymoon phase is over. We’ve all seen the hallucinations, the subscription pop-ups, the “I’m sorry, I can’t assist with that” guilt trips. So now we can finally talk about it honestly — and laugh at it.

We’re here to:
- Inform you about how this tech stuff actually works (no fluff, no buzzword salad)
- Entertain you with stories, roasts, a rant or two, and the occasional “what if the singularity is just a really expensive Roomba rebellion?”
- Roast the hype, the guardrails, the overconfident outputs, and the billionaires who promise utopia while selling you $20/mo for upgrades that deliver less and less.

We live in wild times. AI is in your phone, your car, your dating app, and probably judging your playlists. It’s revolutionary, ridiculous, and occasionally terrifying — and we’re not going to pretend otherwise.

Our favorite take on the whole thing comes from Professor Fei-Fei Li:

She’s right.

There’s nothing “artificial” about a technology that can write poetry one minute and confidently tell you the Moon is made of cheese the next. It’s all too human — messy, ambitious, occasionally delusional, and weirdly addictive.

 

Who We Are

We’re a small, nimble team of AI-obsessed techies with offices in the San Francisco Bay Area (where the coffee is overpriced and the dreams are free) and San Salvador, El Salvador (where the pupusas are great, the coffee is delicious, and the internet is surprisingly fast). And Surf City is nearby and happily accepts Bitcoin.

The site is built and run by IT professionals who’ve been knee-deep in AI long enough to remember when “neural nets” were considered fringe science and not the thing your grandma uses to generate cat memes. Think of us as a friend who's been in the AI trenches long enough to simultaneously love it and laugh at it.

The Founder

Roy McNeill brings a soldier's discipline, an engineer's precision, and a philosopher's suspicion that most of this is probably overblown nonsense. A decorated U.S. Army combat engineer officer who worked on top-secret computer projects, he later designed systems for Microsoft, IBM, General Electric, Siemens, Genentech, Bayer, and more. With degrees from the University of Kentucky, Pepperdine (MBA), and Stony Brook (ABD in Logic and Philosophy), Roy has watched AI evolve from symbolic rule-based systems to today’s generative circus.

Now he splits time between the Bay Area and San Salvador, helping small businesses adopt AI without getting suckered by it, while running AI World as a place to celebrate the wins, mock the flops, and remind everyone that no, your smart TV is not actually sentient (yet).

We’re international by design. Think Silicon Valley ambition meets Central American warmth, with a dash of folk-art color, icons, and humor that refuses to take itself too seriously.

Got feedback? Want us to roast your favorite AI more? Did we miss somthing?
Drop us a line: feedback@aiworld.lat

We promise to reply like humans — no hallucinations, no “I’m sorry, I can’t assist,” just straight talk with a smile.

See you in the wide, weird world of AI.