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What If A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This?
For this week’s Open Questions column, Cal Newport is filling in for Joshua Rothman. Much of the euphoria and dread swirling around…
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Can A.I. Find Cures for Untreatable Diseases—Using Drugs We Already Have?
When David Fajgenbaum was a twenty-five-year-old medical student, at the University of Pennsylvania, he started to feel so tired that he…
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A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That’s a Problem
There’s real reason for caution here, starting with the idea that interactions with A.I. can be treated as genuine relationships. Oliver…
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What Do Commercials About A.I. Really Promise?
If a recent crop of commercials touting the benefits of artificial intelligence is any indication, lots of Americans these days feel…
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A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts
In an experiment last year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, more than fifty students from universities around Boston were…
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What Isaac Asimov Reveals About Living with A.I.
For this week’s Open Questions column, Cal Newport is filling in for Joshua Rothman. In the spring of 1940, Isaac Asimov, who had just…
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Sam Altman and Jony Ive Will Force A.I. Into Your Life
Last Wednesday, OpenAI announced that it was acquiring a company called io, an artificial-intelligence-forward product-development firm…
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Two Paths for A.I.
Last spring, Daniel Kokotajlo, an A.I.-safety researcher working at OpenAI, quit his job in protest. He’d become convinced that the…
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Google Plans to Roll Out Gemini A.I. Chatbot to Children Under 13
Google plans to roll out its Gemini artificial intelligence chatbot next week for children under 13 who have parent-managed Google…
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Why Even Try if You Have A.I.?
A couple of years ago, my wife bought my then four-year-old son a supercool set of wooden ramps, which could be combined with our…
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Trump Is the Emperor of A.I. Slop
On February 19th, Donald Trump logged onto Truth Social to congratulate himself on vanquishing congestion pricing in his home state.…
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Human Therapists Prepare for Battle Against A.I. Pretenders
The nation’s largest association of psychologists this month warned federal regulators that A.I. chatbots “masquerading” as therapists,…
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South Korea Bans Downloads of DeepSeek, the Chinese A.I. App
The South Korean government said on Monday that it had temporarily suspended new downloads of an artificial intelligence chatbot made by…
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‘Doomers’ Review: Hunkered Down, Debating the Peril and Promise of A.I.
Conventional wisdom says the theater is slow to react to current events, but dramatists like Ayad Akhtar (“McNeal”) have clamored lately…
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Macron Pitches Lighter Regulation to Fuel A.I. Boom in Europe
An artificial intelligence race is heating up between the United States and China — but don’t count Europe out. That was President…
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When It Comes to Investing, Is A.I. Worth the Hype?
After the arrival of a less costly A.I. model from China, U.S. markets and academics are wrestling with the ultimate economic value of the…
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OpenAI Unveils New A.I. Agent for Research
A week ago, OpenAI released a tool that can go online to shop for groceries or book a restaurant reservation. Now it is offering A.I.…
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Why Is This C.E.O. Bragging About Replacing Humans With A.I.?
Ask typical corporate executives about their goals in adopting artificial intelligence, and they will most likely make vague…
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A Look at OpenAI’s Operator, a New A.I. Agent
In the past week, OpenAI’s Operator has done the following things for me: Ordered me a new ice cream scoop on Amazon. Bought me a new…
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Who Is Liang Wenfeng, the Founder of the A.I. Start-Up DeepSeek?
In technology, many entrepreneurs get only one defining act. Liang Wenfeng, the founder of DeepSeek, is already on his second. The…
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What Michael Crichton Reveals About Big Tech and A.I.
For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Cal Newport is filling in for Kyle Chayka. In 1968, a young Michael Crichton, still a student at…
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How China Is Reacting to DeepSeek Upending the A.I. Race
Inside China, it was called the tipping point for the global technological rivalry with the United States and the “darkest hour” in…
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What is DeepSeek? And How Is It Upending A.I.?
Tech stocks tumbled. Giant companies like Meta and Nvidia faced a barrage of questions about their future. Tech executives took to social…