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Why Even Try if You Have A.I.? Now that machines can think for us, we have to choose whether to be the passengers or pilots of our lives.
We’re drawn to activities that invite us to grow, by trying and trying again, because we want to evolve as…
Microsoft Publishes Garbled AI Article Calling Tragically Deceased NBA Player “Useless”
This is what we have to look forward to, as a torrent of AI-generated slop that's good enough for the…
Stop sharing those unsourced memes about “be woke” and “God doesn’t need soldiers” — here’s what Pope Leo XIV is actually saying.
Pope Leo XIV, in his first address to journalists at the Vatican, called for the release of imprisoned journalists, championed…
Pope Leo XIV names AI one of the reasons for his papal name
…I chose to take the name Leo XIV. There are different reasons for this, but mainly because Pope Leo XIII…
A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse
The newest and most powerful technologies — so-called reasoning systems from companies like OpenAI, Google and the Chinese start-up DeepSeek — are…
I ordered a box of composition books. Low-tech response to AI.
I felt like a capitalist, buying in bulk on the cheap and selling individual books for $2 (about a 20-cent…
It Costs So Much to Run ChatGPT That OpenAI Is Losing Money on $200 ChatGPT Pro Subscriptions
I'm also thinking of the cost to the students who have to repeat a course or fail out of a…
There’s No Longer Any Doubt That Hollywood Writing Is Powering AI
Two years after the release of ChatGPT, it may not be surprising that creative work is used without permission to…
Despite its impressive output, generative AI doesn’t have a coherent understanding of the world
[A] popular type of generative AI model can provide turn-by-turn driving directions in New York City with near-perfect accuracy — without…
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No one’s ready for this: Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke.
Everyone who is reading this article in 2024 grew up in an era where a photograph was, by default, a…
A week of nonstop breaking political news stumps AI chatbots
Chatbots are designed to give conversational answers and keep people engaged. Names and links to sources for answers range from…
LLM error rates
I worked on LLMs, and now I got opinions. Today, let’s talk about when LLMs make mistakes. On AI…
“Gen Zers know the difference between rock-solid news and AI-generated memes. They just don’t care.”
Over the past couple of years, researchers at Jigsaw, a Google subsidiary that focuses on online politics and polarization, have…
The Washington Post Tells Staff It’s Pivoting to AI: “AI everywhere in our newsroom.”
Already facing scandal, the Washington Post's new-ish CEO and publisher, Will Lewis, has announced that the newspaper will be pivoting to…
Google’s broken link to the web
I guess now we know why for the past decade or so Google doesn't seem to be valuing what used…
ai, ai, ai: critical thinking and literacy won’t save you
Here’s the underlying problem. We have an operating image of thought, an understanding of what thought is and how to…
A.I. ‘Completes’ Keith Haring’s Intentionally Unfinished Painting
After learning of his AIDS diagnosis, artist Keith Haring created the work, "Unfinished Painting" (1989), which is mostly a blank…
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This is what the techbros are excited about? Really?
Some 2300 years ago in ancient Greece, Plato wrote a dialogue featuring his mentor Socrates, who argued that the ability…
Duke stops assigning numeric values to essays, test scores
This story is about the admissions process, not about academics. Duke University is no longer assigning numerical ratings to applicants’…
Horrifying deepfake tricks employee into giving away $25 million
No names in this single-source anecdote out of Hong Kong, credited to "Senior Superintendent Baron Chan Shun-ching." The employee joined…