Pope Leo XIV, in his first address to journalists at the Vatican, called for the release of imprisoned journalists, championed…
…I chose to take the name Leo XIV. There are different reasons for this, but mainly because Pope Leo XIII…
The newest and most powerful technologies — so-called reasoning systems from companies like OpenAI, Google and the Chinese start-up DeepSeek — are…
I felt like a capitalist, buying in bulk on the cheap and selling individual books for $2 (about a 20-cent…
I'm also thinking of the cost to the students who have to repeat a course or fail out of a…
Two years after the release of ChatGPT, it may not be surprising that creative work is used without permission to…
[A] popular type of generative AI model can provide turn-by-turn driving directions in New York City with near-perfect accuracy — without…
Everyone who is reading this article in 2024 grew up in an era where a photograph was, by default, a…
Chatbots are designed to give conversational answers and keep people engaged. Names and links to sources for answers range from…
I worked on LLMs, and now I got opinions. Today, let’s talk about when LLMs make mistakes. On AI…
Over the past couple of years, researchers at Jigsaw, a Google subsidiary that focuses on online politics and polarization, have…
Already facing scandal, the Washington Post's new-ish CEO and publisher, Will Lewis, has announced that the newspaper will be pivoting to…
I guess now we know why for the past decade or so Google doesn't seem to be valuing what used…
Here’s the underlying problem. We have an operating image of thought, an understanding of what thought is and how to…
After learning of his AIDS diagnosis, artist Keith Haring created the work, "Unfinished Painting" (1989), which is mostly a blank…
Some 2300 years ago in ancient Greece, Plato wrote a dialogue featuring his mentor Socrates, who argued that the ability…
This story is about the admissions process, not about academics. Duke University is no longer assigning numerical ratings to applicants’…
No names in this single-source anecdote out of Hong Kong, credited to "Senior Superintendent Baron Chan Shun-ching." The employee joined…
Researchers had programmed the various large language models (LLMs) to act in what they termed malicious ways, and the point…
Far from being “stochastic parrots,” the biggest large language models seem to learn enough skills to understand the words they’re…