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Refik Anadol, The Art World’s Happy Warrior for A.I.
Anadol enjoyed an early triumph in 2018, when he lit up the silver sails of the Walt Disney Concert Hall, in Los Angeles, with projections…
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A.I. Is Making Influencing Even Faker
The virtual influencer is not, strictly speaking, new. In 2016, a C.G.I. avatar named Lil Miquela appeared on Instagram, presenting as an…
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How Project Maven Put A.I. Into the Kill Chain
But Cukor insists that Maven was never supposed to be a weapon. He frequently defends the project as nothing more than an integrated data…
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In the Age of A.I., What Is Taste? And Do We Still Have It?
With artificial intelligence continuing to dominate corporate strategies and news headlines, Silicon Valley has embraced a new buzzword,…
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Video: Can You Rely on A.I. to Translate Love?
new video loaded: Can You Rely on A.I. to Translate Love? A.I. translation has become a huge industry, but how accurate is it? Our tech…
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Pierre Huyghe’s A.I. Art Monster Takes Over a Night Club in Berlin
In the far corner of the Halle, there’s a dim glow. Your job, you realize, is to grope your way toward that light, which reveals itself to…
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Grok and the A.I. Porn Problem
For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Brady Brickner-Wood is filling in for Kyle Chayka. Shortly after Elon Musk purchased Twitter, in…
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Why A.I. Didn’t Transform Our Lives in 2025
One year ago, Sam Altman, the C.E.O. of OpenAI, made a bold prediction: “We believe that, in 2025, we may see the first AI agents ‘join…
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Is A.I. Actually a Bubble?
Luckily for managers, building human capital takes a long time. Or, at least, it used to: artificial intelligence is, among other things,…
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That New Hit Song on Spotify? It Was Made by A.I.
Nick Arter, a thirty-five-year-old in Washington, D.C., never quite managed to become a professional musician the old-fashioned way. He…
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Why Can’t A.I. Manage My E-Mails?
Chatbots can pass the Turing test—but they can’t yet handle an office worker’s inbox. Source link
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What Hollywood Is Missing About A.I.
In 2025, A.I. seems to pop up on TV nearly as often as it does in real life. On the hospital-mockumentary sitcom “St. Denis Medical,” a…
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Will A.I. Trap You in the “Permanent Underclass”?
The “lumpenproletariat,” according to “The Communist Manifesto,” is “the social scum, that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest…
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The A.I. Bubble Is Coming for Your Browser
There’s an old business maxim dating to the California gold rush: it’s easier to make money selling picks and shovels to aspiring miners…
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What If A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This?
For this week’s Open Questions column, Cal Newport is filling in for Joshua Rothman. Much of the euphoria and dread swirling around…
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Can A.I. Find Cures for Untreatable Diseases—Using Drugs We Already Have?
When David Fajgenbaum was a twenty-five-year-old medical student, at the University of Pennsylvania, he started to feel so tired that he…
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A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That’s a Problem
There’s real reason for caution here, starting with the idea that interactions with A.I. can be treated as genuine relationships. Oliver…
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What Do Commercials About A.I. Really Promise?
If a recent crop of commercials touting the benefits of artificial intelligence is any indication, lots of Americans these days feel…
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A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts
In an experiment last year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, more than fifty students from universities around Boston were…
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Disney and Universal Sue A.I. Firm Midjourney for Copyright Infringement
Disney and Universal sued a prominent artificial intelligence start-up for copyright infringement on Wednesday, bringing Hollywood…
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What Isaac Asimov Reveals About Living with A.I.
For this week’s Open Questions column, Cal Newport is filling in for Joshua Rothman. In the spring of 1940, Isaac Asimov, who had just…
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Sam Altman and Jony Ive Will Force A.I. Into Your Life
Last Wednesday, OpenAI announced that it was acquiring a company called io, an artificial-intelligence-forward product-development firm…
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Two Paths for A.I.
Last spring, Daniel Kokotajlo, an A.I.-safety researcher working at OpenAI, quit his job in protest. He’d become convinced that the…
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Why Even Try if You Have A.I.?
A couple of years ago, my wife bought my then four-year-old son a supercool set of wooden ramps, which could be combined with our…