
AI’s Next Frontier: People Skills
Imagine a chatbot that actually knows how to talk to you.
Atlantic writers help you wrap your mind around artificial intelligence and a new machine age.

The powerful new chatbot could make all sorts of trouble. But for now, it’s mostly a meme machine.

The war has made it very hard to build a floating-ice camp.

Treat it like a toy, not a tool.

Nobody is prepared for how AI will transform academia.

With Ye on Infowars and Elon Musk lifting the floodgates on Twitter, the right wing is getting the free-speech thunderdome of its dreams. Or nightmares.

Partiful is one of many products adopting the trendy aesthetic, calling itself “facebook events for hot people.”

How can watching people fiddle with spreadsheets possibly be this fun?

The app’s original purpose has been lost in the era of “performance” media.

Credit-card makers are ditching plastic in favor of something with much more … plunk.

Baby cams are sold on the notion that something could go disastrously wrong in the nursery.