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
24 Oct 2024 6:20 AM ISTOpenAI 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
24 Oct 2024 6:00 AM IST“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
23 Oct 2024 6:20 AM ISTLincoln 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?
23 Oct 2024 6:00 AM ISTThe 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
22 Oct 2024 6:00 AM ISTGoebel, 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
21 Oct 2024 6:20 AM IST“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
21 Oct 2024 6:00 AM IST“It is a revolution in the design of spacesuits,” said Russell Ralston, the executive vice president for extravehicular activity for Axiom Space, the...