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Interns gain exposure to the world of magazine editing and publishing by assisting with fact checking, proofreading, evaluating submissions, web and newsletter production, and other engagement and ...
This past February, I noticed that one of the cameras at my parents’ apartment had gone dark. I scanned through the footage: backward quickly, until I saw my father shuffling about, like a stop-motion ...
For a technology that seems startling in its modernity, AI sure has a long history. Google Translate, OpenAI chatbots, and Meta AI image generators are built on decades of advancements in linguistics, ...
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Amba Kak is Co-Executive Director of the AI Now Institute and a former Senior Advisor on AI at the Federal Trade Commission.
Morozov’s paean to “ecological reason” is a breath of fresh air, demonstrating how the Cold War perverted not only AI development but our capacity to imagine alternatives—technological forms ...