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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Elon Musk Is Spiraling
One Elon is a visionary; the other is a troll. The more he tweets, the harder it gets to tell them apart.
Duck Off, Autocorrect
Chatbots can write poems in the voice of Shakespeare. So why are phone keyboards still thr wosrt?
Prepare for the Textpocalypse
Our relationship to writing is about to change forever; it may not end well.
Andrew Tate Is Haunting YouTube
Many months after a misogynist influencer was banned from social media, his face is still everywhere. Will it ever go away?
GPT-4 Might Just Be a Bloated, Pointless Mess
Will endless “scaling” of our current language models really bring true machine intelligence?
The Vindication of Ask Jeeves
Garrett Gruener, the co-creator of Ask Jeeves, couldn’t beat Google, but he’s feeling just fine about the dawn of the chatbot era.
The Real Reason Eye Cream Is So Expensive
Does eye cream do anything special, or is it just facial moisturizer in a smaller tub?
Conspiracy Theories Have a New Best Friend
Generative AI programs like ChatGPT threaten to revolutionize how disinformation spreads online.
Stadiums Have Gotten Downright Dystopian
Fans are getting a glimpse of the future of surveillance.
A Chatbot Is Secretly Doing My Job
On creating serviceable copy using ChatGPT