The Flip-Phone Cleanse
I spent a month with a group of people who aspire to a state of offline bliss.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Endgame
The world’s richest man is accruing more power than ever before.
Is Hurry the Great Enemy of Spiritual Life?
Pastor John Mark Comer has won a massive audience by encouraging his followers to free themselves from the gnawing sense that there is always more to do.
The Allbirds Pivot Is a Terrible Idea … Right?
Its turn to AI could be an escape hatch for a company with nothing to lose.
Duck Off, Autocorrect
Chatbots can write poems in the voice of Shakespeare. So why are phone keyboards still thr wosrt?
Prepare for the Textpocalypse
Our relationship to writing is about to change forever; it may not end well.
GPT-4 Might Just Be a Bloated, Pointless Mess
Will endless “scaling” of our current language models really bring true machine intelligence?
The Vindication of Ask Jeeves
Garrett Gruener, the co-creator of Ask Jeeves, couldn’t beat Google, but he’s feeling just fine about the dawn of the chatbot era.
Conspiracy Theories Have a New Best Friend
Generative AI programs like ChatGPT threaten to revolutionize how disinformation spreads online.
Radio Atlantic: What AI Means for Search
How transformative are the new AI search tools? Are they a new Skynet or just a new Clippy?
A Chatbot Is Secretly Doing My Job
On creating serviceable copy using ChatGPT
Welcome to the Golden Age of Clichés
Chatbots can’t think outside the box, unleashing even more nonsense filler words onto the world.
AI Search Is a Disaster
Microsoft and Google believe chatbots will change search forever. So far, there’s no reason to believe the hype.
Is This The Week AI Changed Everything?
Tech companies certainly say so. The reality is much more dizzying.