Can Sponge Cities Save Us from the Coming Floods?
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Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?
Altman continued touting OpenAI’s commitment to safety, especially when potential recruits were within earshot. In late 2022, four…
Love in the Time of A.I. Companions
“Probably all in the same place,” her friend offered, cheerily. A few minutes later, Brookins arrived in a…
Deepfaking Orson Welles’s Mangled Masterpiece
On set, a young director named Victor Velle was rehearsing the train-station scene with the actors playing George…
What if Readers Like A.I.-Generated Fiction?
After feeding Han’s writing into GPT-4o, Chakrabarty fine-tuned fresh versions of the model on the work of twenty-nine…
Is A.I. Amazing or Are We Simple?
It’s starting to feel like artificial intelligence can actually understand us. Maybe we aren’t as complicated as we…
Will A.I. Destroy the Planet?
Are we helping to destroy the planet every time we ask ChatGPT a question? Stephen Witt joins us…
Peter Matthiessen Travelled the World, Trying to Escape Himself
But it wasn’t until he arrived in Paris, during his junior year abroad, that he could truly nurture…
If A.I. Can Diagnose Patients, What Are Doctors For?
It seems inevitable that the future of medicine will involve A.I., and medical schools are already encouraging students…
The Family Fallout of DNA Surprises
Lily Wood is forty-three years old but considers April 9, 2019, to be her “rebirth day.” That was…