Our robot stories haven’t prepared us for AI
The boy had a particularly intense relationship with a chatbot named Dany, after Daenerys Targaryen from “Game of Thrones.” He said he was in love...
OpenAI Hires Former White House Official as Its Chief Economist
OpenAI hopes to eventually build AI that changes office work, scientific research and many other tasks, and the company acknowledges that its...
Four years in jail without trial: The price of dissent in Modi’s India
“Everyone get in the frame, please,” he urged when he was unable to see a face but could hear a familiar voice.
What Lincoln Can Tell Us About MAGA
Lincoln argued that slave owners’ quarrel with the free states wasn’t that Northerners were hurting their material interests — they weren’t to any...
Can a Synthetic Voice Be Taught to Sing Opera?
The voice, an uncanny combination of expressive directness and can’t-quite-place-it strangeness, moved from one note to the next with the slick...
Seeking ‘Warmth and Personality’ in the World of High-Priced Pens
Goebel, on the other hand, was a veteran of three pen shows and she brought along a case brimming with pens, including her favorite, a teal-colored...
Trump’s Charity Toward None
“We have someone in the White House who can barely talk, barely put together two coherent sentences, who seems to have mental faculties of a child,”...
Space: The Final Fashion Frontier
“It is a revolution in the design of spacesuits,” said Russell Ralston, the executive vice president for extravehicular activity for Axiom Space, the...
