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Illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic The End of Recommendation Letters
Professors, like their students, use ChatGPT to get out of doing their assignments.
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Illustration by Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty You Should Ask a Chatbot to Make You a Drink
AI is great at coming up with cocktail recipes, even as it fails at other tasks. Just don’t ask it to get too creative with the garnishes.
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Illustration by Daniel Zender / The Atlantic; Getty Meet the World’s Least Ambitious AI
Martin is designed to fail at its only task—a reminder that AI doesn’t actually need humanlike smarts to be useful.
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Matt Chase / The Atlantic Where’s the AI Culture War?
Somehow, artificial intelligence has remained strikingly nonpartisan.
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Illustration by Matt Chase / The Atlantic. Source: … AI Is Running Circles Around Robotics
Moravec’s paradox strikes again!
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The Atlantic / Getty Return of the People Machine
No one responds to polls anymore. Researchers are now just asking AI instead.
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Illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic The Real Taylor Swift Would Never
Fans are using AI tools to synthesize the star’s voice, demonstrating how new technology is blurring the boundaries between reality and fiction.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Nikita Singareddy Midjourney … Why You Fell for the Fake Pope Coat
The pope didn’t actually wear that great jacket, but a lot of people were ready to believe he did.
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Illustration by Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Universal … ChatGPT Has Impostor Syndrome
AI doesn’t know its own strengths.
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Illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic Nine AI Chatbots You Can Play With Right Now
The machines may change the world as you know it. But first, they’ll write a sonnet based on your favorite cereal.
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Ben Hickey AI Is Exposing Who Really Has Power in Silicon Valley
Your data helped build ChatGPT. Where’s your payout?
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Illustration by Matt Chase / The Atlantic. Source: … AI Is Like … Nuclear Weapons?
The new technology is beyond comparison.
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Illustration by The Atlantic; Source Elliot Higgins Midjourney … People Aren’t Falling for AI Trump Photos (Yet)
Fake images of Trump getting arrested may not fool anyone—but the next thing cooked up by AI might.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Elliot Higgins / … The Trump AI Deepfakes Had an Unintended Side Effect
The most crucial element of the fake Trump-arrest images is not that they are misleading. It is that they are cinematic.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Rasit Aydogan / … Is This the Singularity for Standardized Tests?
GPT-4’s mastery of the SAT will re-entrench the power and influence of rote exams.
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Illustration by The Atlantic GPT-4 Has the Memory of a Goldfish
Large language models know a lot but can’t remember much at all.
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Erik Carter What Have Humans Just Unleashed?
Call it tech’s optical-illusion era: Not even the experts know exactly what will come next in the AI revolution.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty Welcome to the Big Blur
Thanks to AI, every written word now comes with a question.
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The Atlantic; Getty ChatGPT Changed Everything. Now Its Follow-Up Is Here.
Behold GPT-4. Here’s what we know it can do, and what it can’t.
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The Atlantic Why Are We Letting the AI Crisis Just Happen?
Bad actors could seize on large language models to engineer falsehoods at unprecedented scale.
