Opinion | A Look Back at Our Coming War With China
In “The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict Between the US and Xi Jinping’s China,” Kevin Rudd, a former prime minister of Australia and a longtime scholar of…
A Blessing and a Boogeyman: Advertisers Warily Embrace A.I.
The advertising industry is in a love-hate relationship with artificial intelligence. In the past few months, the technology has made ads easier to generate and track. It is writing marketing…
Israeli President to Meet With Biden Amid U.S. Unease With Netanyahu
President Biden will meet with President Isaac Herzog of Israel on Tuesday at the White House, a diplomatic overture to one of America’s key allies amid tensions between the Biden…
OpenAI Worries About What Its Chatbot Will Say About People’s Faces
The chatbot that millions of people have used to write term papers, computer code and fairy tales doesn’t just do words. ChatGPT, the artificial-intelligence-powered tool from OpenAI, can analyze images,…
Wikipedia’s Moment of Truth
In the future, Sastry added, A.I. systems might interpret whether a query requires a rigorous factual answer or something more creative. In other words, if you wanted an analytical report…
Opinion | The 2023 SCOTUS Awards
The headlines that emerged from the 2022-2023 term of the Supreme Court conveyed the brutal impact of several big decisions, but they sometimes missed the human elements that made these…
Opinion | Big Tech Algorithms Are Killing Kids’ Sense of Discovery
Kids are even more in the bag of social media companies than we think. So many of them have ceded their online autonomy so fully to their phones that they…
Opinion | We’re Already Paying for Universal Health Care. Why Don’t We Have It?
There is no shortage of proposals for health insurance reform, and they all miss the point. They invariably focus on the nearly 30 million Americans who lack insurance at any…
Hunting the Military Extremist: How Disturbed Is the U.S. Military? | naked capitalism
Conor here: This post might be a bit naive on the whole Teixeira affair, but the larger issues would seem to be relevant. By Nan Levinson. Her most recent book…
Protesters Rally Across Israel in New Push Against Legal Overhaul
Thousands of Israelis blocked major highways and held dozens of rallies across central Israel on Tuesday to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to finalize a law next week that…