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It’s a fact of life that automation can make us lazier. Usually, the tradeoffs are worth it. But it feels more pernicious with AI Chatbots, which offer to basically automate…
Continue Reading Man Alarmed as His Cognitive Skills Decay After Outsourcing Them to AI
Over the past few years, the tech industry has gone from cushy landing pad for STEM grads to a cesspit of corporate greed, where grueling hours are commonplace, and layoffs…
In December, we published an investigation into a particularly grim phenomenon on Character.AI, an AI startup with $2.7 billion in backing from Google: a huge number of minor-accessible bots on its…
Scaredy Cats The release of DeepSeek’s low-cost R1 model has precipitated an existential crisis in Silicon Valley, whose executives are now begging the government to protect their AI companies from…
If you’ve felt a vibe shift, you’re not alone: there’s a massive revolution afoot, led by “America-hating communists.” At least, that’s according to Marc Andreessen, the cofounder of the powerful…
Failed Experiment Apple has temporarily halted its disastrous “Apple Intelligence” feature which consistently bungled its one task of summarizing breaking news alerts. An upcoming iOS 18.3 update will disable the…
Springer Nature, the stalwart publisher of scientific journals including the prestigious Nature as well as the nearly 200-year-old magazine Scientific American, is approaching the authors of papers in its journals with…
Springer Nature, the stalwart publisher of scientific journals including the prestigious Nature as well as the nearly 200-year-old magazine Scientific American, is approaching the authors of papers in its journals with…
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Dead Poets Scientists have found that readers have a lot of trouble telling apart AI-generated and human-written poetry — even works by the likes of William Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson.…