1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (200+ words) Pianpian Xu Guthrie, Amotions AI's founder, was eager to tell me more. The AI model observes video calls on your computer, she said, and gives you real-time tips based on the other person's tone and. .. Imagine a chatbot that actually…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago  (224+ words) It involves 4chan, of all places. In July 2020, 4chan's video-game discussion board looked much like the rest of the notorious online forum. There were elaborate, libidinal fantasies involving "whores" and "dragon cum," and comments on how long a gamer had to…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (264+ words) Students and professors are in a drawn-out battle over grade inflation. It may never end. Read: The perverse consequences of the easy A Read: College students have already changed forever Read: The most disrespected document in higher education Amid and…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (857+ words) Humans are question machines. AI is an answer machine. Typically, these tours end in the same place: The author has found a path through the wilderness, and discovered a voice along the way. Voice is what leads us out of…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (48+ words) The Atlantic Terence Tao, the legendary mathematician, explains the promise of generative AI. Over the past couple of months, several researchers have begun making the same provocative claim: They used generative-AI tools to solve a previously unanswered math problem....

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (958+ words) The Atlantic These "paper mills" have to do their work at scale, and so they tend to recycle their own materials, even to the point of putting out multiple papers with closely matching text. Day told me that he finds…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (657+ words) Large language models don't "learn'they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry. Editor's note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic's ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. On Tuesday, researchers at Stanford and Yale revealed…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (524+ words) The social-media era is over. What's coming will be much worse. From the February 2025 issue: The anti-social century Meta is working to make that desire a reality. And it is hardly leading the charge: Many companies are doing the same,…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (282+ words) Humanity thrives on friction'so why are the tools of the future built to make everything seem so easy? The internet of old was a vibrant bazaar. It was noisy, chaotic, and offbeat. Every click brought you somewhere new, sometimes unpredictable,…...