AI’s Next Frontier: People Skills
Imagine a chatbot that actually knows how to talk to you.
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The Strange Origin of AI’s ‘Reasoning’ Abilities
It involves 4chan, of all places.
Is Schoolwork Optional Now?
Education is on the verge of becoming fully automated.
Claude Mythos Is Everyone’s Problem
What happens when AI can hack everything?
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The Difference Between Speaking and Thinking
The human brain could explain why AI programs are so good at writing grammatically superb nonsense.
Angry Football Fans Keep Punching Their TVs
And shooting them, and knifing them, and running them over with trucks
We’ve Lost the Plot
Our constant need for entertainment has blurred the line between fiction and reality—on television, in American politics, and in our everyday lives.
Television Is Better Without Video Games
HBO’s adaptation of The Last of Us offers a definitive case for games’ narrative impoverishment.
Death by a Thousand Personality Quizzes
AI-assisted internet posting is already in a race to the bottom.
Even When Ticketmaster Works, It Doesn’t
The site’s woes go far beyond Taylor Swift.
Trump and Facebook’s Mutual Decay
At least the platform finally added a user.
Will the 2016 Election Ever End?
New research about the Kremlin’s election interference raises more questions than it answers.
Twitter Has No Answers for #DiedSuddenly
The latest anti-vaccine conspiracy theory is taking off easily on platforms that have no interest in shutting it down.
The Culture Wars Look Different on Wikipedia
The site is tackling more controversial edits, the results of which can reverberate across the internet.