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The only worse thing than basing all of human existence around the highs and lows of arbitrary numbers is putting computers in charge of these numbers.
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After losing his shirt, pants, and boxers in crypto investments, the head of a16z is re-committing to the Nerd Rapture, and commanding that you join him.
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How one hugely influential book fostered a business obsession, what it got wrong, and how its fans in the tech industry wrought havoc with it.
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Journalists are now penning dire warnings for programmers as AI learns to code. But their job obituaries show just how little they understand what's next.
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Misery not only loves company, it's profitable. And today's social media made it a multi-billion dollar business by hijacking a quirk of our brain chemistry.
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Opinions polls show that a lot of people want AI development to slow down and governments to step in. And they have really good reasons for their caution.
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New technology allows computers and fMRI machines to decode what you're thinking as a stream of text. It sounds creepy, but it could save lives.
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Hollywood writers are once again on strike. Their goal? Nothing less than figuring out how humans and AI can coexist with runaway late-stage capitalism.
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Our nearly inevitable cyborg overlords may have a lot more squish and atomic scale wiring than we were taught to expect by science fiction.
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ChatGPT and its competitors are set to turn search, news, and social media into a complete dumpster fire.
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In a legal and technical first, a robot lawyer is about to help a human defendant. Is it a good idea? And what happens next?
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Generative AI is meant to help writers, artists, and coders. But it may be stealing from them first, creating a legal and ethical nightmare.
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Bitcoin's rival wants to eliminate its vast contributions of energy waste and global warming. Will the original crypto coin follow suit?
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Governments are no longer just interested in controlling social media narratives with bots and premium content. They're now reaching for new laws.
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We keep seeing artificial intelligence do more and more impressive things. But the most impressive thing it can do next is to fit in our hands.
