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A.I.

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Can A.I. Writing Be More Than a Gimmick?

Vauhini Vara consulted ChatGPT to help craft her new book, “Searches.” But the most moving sections are the ones she wrote herself.
Open Questions

Will A.I. Save the News?

Artificial intelligence could hollow out the media business—but it also has the power to enhance journalism.
Infinite Scroll

The Limits of A.I.-Generated Miyazaki

The launch of GPT-4o inspired a rash of A.I.-generated Studio Ghibli-style images. They may bode worse for audiences than for artists.
Open Questions

Are We Taking A.I. Seriously Enough?

There’s no longer any scenario in which A.I. fades into irrelevance. We urgently need voices from outside the industry to help shape its future.
Infinite Scroll

What Michael Crichton Reveals About Big Tech and A.I.

The author of “Jurassic Park” understood that technologies often wriggle out of the grasp of their creators.
Annals of Inquiry

What Kind of Writer Is ChatGPT?

Chatbots have been criticized as perfect plagiarism tools. The truth is more surprising.
Infinite Scroll

Apple Is Bringing A.I. to Your Personal Life, Like It or Not

The iPhone maker’s introduction of Apple Intelligence marks a step into a new technological era—call it the domestication of generative A.I.
Annals of Artificial Intelligence

Can an A.I. Make Plans?

Today’s systems struggle to imagine the future—but that may soon change.
Annals of Artificial Intelligence

How to Picture A.I.

To understand its strengths and limitations, we may need to adopt a new perspective.
Elements

Thinking About A.I. with Stanisław Lem

The science-fiction writer didn’t live to see ChatGPT, but he foresaw so much of its promise and peril.
Annals of Music

Inside the Music Industry’s High-Stakes A.I. Experiments

Lucian Grainge, the chairman of UMG, has helped record labels rake in billions of dollars from streaming. Can he do the same with generative artificial intelligence?
2023 in Review

The Year A.I. Ate the Internet

Call 2023 the year many of us learned to communicate, create, cheat, and collaborate with robots.
2023 in Review

The Terrible Twenties? The Assholocene? What to Call Our Chaotic Era

There is something paradoxical about pinning a name on an age characterized by extreme uncertainty. But that hasn’t stopped people from trying.
Infinite Scroll

Your A.I. Companion Will Support You No Matter What

New chatbots offer friendship, intimacy, and unconditional encouragement. Do they mitigate isolation or exacerbate it?
Profiles

Why the Godfather of A.I. Fears What He’s Built

Geoffrey Hinton has spent a lifetime teaching computers to learn. Now he worries that artificial brains are better than ours.
The Political Scene Podcast

The Creator of ChatGPT on the Rise of Artificial Intelligence

Sam Altman, the C.E.O. of OpenAI, discusses the surge of A.I. tools, such as ChatGPT, explaining their applications, limitations, and the need for government regulation.
Infinite Scroll

Bing A.I. and the Dawn of the Post-Search Internet

So much of the current Web was designed around aggregation. What value will legacy sites have when bots can do the aggregation for us?
Daily Cartoon

Daily Cartoon: Friday, March 17th

“Honey, why is the toaster trying to convince me that all this new A.I. stuff is nothing to worry about?”
Rabbit Holes

The Uncanny Failures of A.I.-Generated Hands

When it comes to one of humanity’s most important features, machines can grasp small patterns but not the unifying whole.
Daily Cartoon

Daily Cartoon: Friday, February 17th

It’s hard to compete with an amorous A.I.