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“We Have Built a Giant Treadmill That We Can’t Get Off”
Amid an explosion of panic about artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, and runaway algos, the celebrated Sci-Fi writer Ted Chiang considers how […]
Audiences Don’t Crave IP. They Want Originality
The massive preview grosses for “Barbie”, “Oppenheimer” and even “Sound of Freedom” are gamechangers. “Barbie” (Warner Bros. Discovery), with a […]
Crows and Magpies Are Building Nests with Anti-Bird Spikes
“Even for me as a nest researcher, these are the craziest bird nests I’ve ever seen.” Hostile architecture is a […]
Food Delivery by Drone Is Just Part of Daily Life in Shenzhen
The Chinese delivery giant Meituan flies drones between skyscrapers to kiosks around the city. Many big corporations have had their […]
The Secret Failure in The Banking System of Migrating From COBOL
“I just got through a conversion (for a system) to go from COBOL to Java, It’s taken them four years, […]
‘It Almost Doubled Our Workload’: AI is Supposed to Make Jobs Easier. These Workers Disagree
“Workers do report, though, that the intensity of their work has increased after the adoption of AI in their workplaces.” […]
Famed US Hacker Kevin Mitnick Dies Aged 59
America’s “most wanted” hacker reinvented himself as a cybersecurity consultant after time in prison. In the 1990s, Mitnick gained notoriety […]
Why So Many Brands Use Sound To Make You Buy Stuff
Netflix made sonic logos — the new version of jingles — trendy. But its success is hard to replicate. Netflix […]
Meta and Microsoft Introduce the Next Generation of Llama
Llama-v2 is available on Microsoft Azure and will be available on AWS, Hugging Face and other providers. We’re now ready […]