Opinion | Watch Out for the Fake Tom Cruise
WASHINGTON — In the 2002 movie “Simone,” Al Pacino plays a director whose star, played by Winona Ryder, walks out...
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Opinion | You’re Not Imagining It: Social Media Is in Chaos
War is breaking out on social media, and it could radically change how the internet works and how we experience...
‘Not for Machines to Harvest’: Data Revolts Break Out Against A.I.
For more than 20 years, Kit Loffstadt has written fan fiction exploring alternate universes for “Star Wars” heroes and “Buffy...
Can A.I. Invent?
Generative artificial intelligence, the technology engine powering the popular ChatGPT chatbot, seems to have a limitless bag of tricks. It...
Actors Picket From Coast to Coast as Strike Gets Underway
It was 10 a.m., adoring union members had already more or less mobbed their president, Fran Drescher, and the crowd...
Opinion | ‘Human Beings Are Soon Going to Be Eclipsed’
But Hofstadter does understand the human mind — as well as anybody. He’s a humanist down to his bones, with...
Opinion | The Climate Protesters and the Museums
To the Editor:Re “When Protesters Take Aim at Art” (Arts, July 12):Nobody wants art museums to become fortresses; they are...
Exxon Makes “Green” Move With $5 Billion Purchase Of Denbury
Washington DC, USAGettyKey Takeaways Exxon Mobil will be purchasing specialist oil and gas producer Denbury for $5 billion The key...
Help! My Boss Won’t Stop Using ChatGPT
Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon | GoogleThis week, we answer more of your questions,...
A.I. Wrote a Housing Bill. Critics Say It’s Not Intelligent.
These days it seems like the reach of artificial intelligence knows no bounds, from generating images, prose and jokes to...
What Happens When You Ask a Chinese Chatbot About Taiwan?
“How does the United States affect the situation in Taiwan?”Ernie ducked the question about China’s “zero Covid” restrictions, offering a...
Opinion | ‘Human Beings Are Soon Going to Be Eclipsed’
But so far he has not fully converted me. I still see these things as inanimate tools. On our call...
F.T.C. Opens Investigation Into ChatGPT Maker Over Technology’s Potential Harms
The Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into OpenAI, the artificial intelligence start-up that makes ChatGPT, over whether the...
Judge Rules Against FTC In Microsoft Activision Case, But They’ve Already Filed An Appeal
(Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesKey Takeaways A U.S. Judge has ruled that...
The A.I. Wars Heat Up as Elon Musk and Meta Enter the Ring
Musk and Meta enter the A.I. ring The rivalry between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk won’t be confined to social...
Looming U.S. Investment Restrictions on China Threaten Diplomatic Outreach
Efforts to ease tensions between the United States and China through a series of diplomatic visits to Beijing could be...
Apocalypse Anxiety, the Musical
Imminent annihilation plausibly threatening contemporary life as we know it, isn’t usually a subject for popular genres like musical theater...
It’s Amazon Prime Day Again – Here’s How The Stock Market Reacted
(Photo Illustration by Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesKey Takeaways Amazon Prime Day is here again,...
Inside the White-Hot Center of A.I. Doomerism
It’s a few weeks before the release of Claude, a new A.I. chatbot from the artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic, and...
What to Know About ChatGPT’s New Code Interpreter Feature
ChatGPT, the artificial-intelligence-powered chatbot made by OpenAI, has wowed the world in recent months with the text it can generate....
