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The PayPal Mafia's grand plan for Western civilization is a cyberpunk dystopia they don't even know how to build.
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Not everyone needs a "pivot to AI." Far more often than not, off the shelf models are all your company needs, and even that might be overkill.
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A group of researchers claims chat bots have as good of a grasp of others' moods and reasoning as we do. But there's an oversight that could render these findings moot...
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However bizarre you think Silicon Valley's sudden obsession with AI, I assure you, its roots are way weirder than that, and so are the plans for an "AI-powered" future.
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From bankrolling disinformation, to stealing content and traffic for error-prone AI, to hiding news stories, Google seems determined to kill the web as we know it.
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Bacteria are rapidly evolving resistance to more, and higher doses of our most reliable antibiotics, but AI can help us avoid a catastrophe.
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New study shows that far from dispelling misinformation, googling can actually make it sound more plausible and realistic. Why? For money, of course.
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The infamous Dead Internet Theory has been growing more and more real (and costly) by the day. And experts say that in two years, it will be fact.
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Moral panics are very profitable for those who fan their flames. And Jonathan Haidt is going to disgusting lows to make sure his sells no matter what.
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Seems like the only thing American lawmakers can agree on is forcing TikTok to be sold or face a nationwide ban. But their reasoning is less than ironclad.
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Old media and old values have finally met our stunning lack of privacy in the modern world.
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A new study found the people prefer ChatGPT's self-help advice more than that of professional columnists. Now they want to know why this is the case.
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We were promised a utopian future. What we got was tech bros reinventing a lot of things we already had, but worse, more exploitative, and less safe.
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Hustle culture is entering its twilight moments thanks to public disgust and the rise of AI that can do almost all the grinding for you.
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After unleashing generative AI on the world, companies are discovering that far too many users are having way too much fun abusing the technology.
