Tag: Technology
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What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English Classroom
Piers Gelly on a Semester-Long Dive into the AI Discourse
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My journey to the heart of the forgotten internet
Slowly but surely, huge swaths of the internet are vanishing. But the artefacts of the early web are still out there, and they have lessons for the future.
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Airbnb Is in Midlife Crisis Mode
CEO Brian Chesky is spending hundreds of millions to relaunch his travel company as an everything app. Fitness! Food! Microdermabrasion?
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They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality.
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There’s Neuralink—and There’s the Mind-Reading Company That Might Surpass It
Unlike Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface, Synchron’s doesn’t require open-skull surgery, and it has an OpenAI chatbot baked in.
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Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world
Titans like Musk would love us to believe innovation means top-down solutions that only enrich the wealthy. In fact, we all have the power
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Peacock Feathers Are Stunning. They Can Also Emit Laser Beams
Scientists hope their plumage project could someday lead to biocompatible lasers that could safely be embedded in the human body.
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Are AI Girlfriends Good, Actually?
AI chatbot companions are everywhere. And so are cautionary tales about their influence. But men are also using them as a way to process hard feelings amid a loneliness epidemic.