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May 18, 2021 • 8min
Twitter Group's Offer India a Covid-19 Lifeline
Hashtags have provided a kind of emergency hotline—but the need for mutual aid on social media is also a rebuke to the government.
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May 17, 2021 • 10min
It Began As an AI-Fueled Dungeon Game. It Got Much Darker
The game touted its use of the GPT-3 text generator. Then the algorithm started to generate disturbing stories, including sex scenes involving children.
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May 14, 2021 • 7min
The One Legal Question That Will Probably Decide the Epic-Apple Lawsuit
It’s all about how you define the market.
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May 13, 2021 • 7min
Gummy Bears and Candy Bars Are Casualties of the Pandemic
Shopping online means fewer unplanned purchases. Manufacturers and retailers are testing tactics to bring impulse buying to the web.
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May 12, 2021 • 12min
Why Almost No One Is Getting the Fastest Form of 5G
A new report shows that US mobile customers are tapping into the technology’s speediest networks less than 1 percent of the time.
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May 11, 2021 • 7min
The WFH Exodus Creates an Opportunity for Small Cities
Workers from urban centers will continue to work from home, at least part-time. Officials and developers are planning the shops and services they'll want.
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May 10, 2021 • 5min
Ford's Ever-Smarter Robots Are Speeding Up the Assembly Line
A transmission factory shows how artificial intelligence may creep into industrial processes in gradual and often imperceptible ways.
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May 7, 2021 • 8min
AI Helps Prove Two Scribes Wrote Text of a Dead Sea Scroll
Most scholars thought the Isaiah Scroll was copied by a single author. New handwriting analysis just revealed otherwise.
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May 6, 2021 • 7min
This Researcher Says AI Is Neither Artificial nor Intelligent
Kate Crawford, who holds positions at USC and Microsoft, says in a new book that even experts working on the technology misunderstand AI.Â
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May 5, 2021 • 7min
Now for AI’s Latest Trick: Writing Computer Code
Programs such as GPT-3 can compose convincing text. Some people are using the tool to automate software development and hunt for bugs.Â
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