The Flip-Phone Cleanse
I spent a month with a group of people who aspire to a state of offline bliss.
Artificial Intelligence
The dawn of a new machine age.
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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.
AI Is Like … Nuclear Weapons?
The new technology is beyond comparison.
People Aren’t Falling for AI Trump Photos (Yet)
Fake images of Trump getting arrested may not fool anyone—but the next thing cooked up by AI might.
The Trump AI Deepfakes Had an Unintended Side Effect
The most crucial element of the fake Trump-arrest images is not that they are misleading. It is that they are cinematic.
Is This the Singularity for Standardized Tests?
GPT-4’s mastery of the SAT will re-entrench the power and influence of rote exams.
GPT-4 Has the Memory of a Goldfish
Large language models know a lot but can’t remember much at all.
What Have Humans Just Unleashed?
Call it tech’s optical-illusion era: Not even the experts know exactly what will come next in the AI revolution.
Welcome to the Big Blur
Thanks to AI, every written word now comes with a question.
ChatGPT Changed Everything. Now Its Follow-Up Is Here.
Behold GPT-4. Here’s what we know it can do, and what it can’t.
Why Are We Letting the AI Crisis Just Happen?
Bad actors could seize on large language models to engineer falsehoods at unprecedented scale.
We Programmed ChatGPT Into This Article. It’s Weird.
Please don’t embarrass us, robots.