Michal Kosinski is a Stanford research psychologist with a nose for timely subjects. He sees his work as not only advancing knowledge, but alerting the world to potential…
Read more AI Will Understand Humans Better Than Humans DoEric Lander is a Big Science heavyweight. A geneticist, molecular biologist, and mathematician, he led the International Human Genome Project and is founding director of the powerful Broad…
Read more A High-Profile Geneticist Is Launching a Fusion-Power MoonshotA few years ago I wrote about how, when planning my wedding, I’d signaled to the Pinterest app that I was interested in hairstyles and tablescapes, and I…
Read more Social Media Tells You Who You Are. What if It’s Totally Wrong?It’s also true that when one of those groundbreaking companies matures and faces challenges, a founder has a unique ability to make bold moves and stick to the…
Read more Want to Get Into Founder Mode? You Should Be So LuckyThe spy agency that dared not speak its name is now the Joe Rogan of the SIGINT set. And the pod’s actually worth a listen. Steven Levy Source…
Read more The NSA Has a Podcast—Here’s How to Decode ItThis week Mark Zuckerberg sent a letter to Jim Jordan, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee. For months, the GOP-led committee has been on a crusade to…
Read more Mark Zuckerberg Vows to Be Neutral–While Tossing Gifts to Trump and the GOPSteve Jobs is 28 years old, and seems a little nervous as he starts his speech to a group of designers gathered under a large tent in Aspen,…
Read more Steve Jobs Knew the Moment the Future Had Arrived. It’s Calling AgainJessamyn West used to describe Metafilter as a social network for non-friends, a description belied in part by the tight-knit camaraderie that emerges in an online group of…
Read more At 25, Metafilter Feels Like a Time Capsule From Another InternetIllia Polosukhin doesn’t want big companies to determine the future of artificial intelligence. His alternative vision for “user-owned AI” is already starting to take shape. Steven Levy Source…
Read more He Helped Invent Generative AI. Now He Wants to Save ItIn R. C. Sherriff’s novel The Hopkins Manuscript, readers are transported to a world 800 years after a cataclysmic event ended Western civilization. In pursuit of clues about…
Read more My Memories Are Just Meta’s Training Data NowMeanwhile, in less visible ways, AI is already changing education, commerce, and the workplace. One friend recently told me about a big IT firm he works with. The…
Read more Don’t Let Mistrust of Tech Companies Blind You to the Power of AIFolks, when dogs talk, we’re talking Biblical disruption. Do you think that future models will do worse on the law exams? If nothing else, this week proves that…
Read more It’s Time to Believe the AI HypeThe other night I attended a press dinner hosted by an enterprise company called Box. Other guests included the leaders of two data-oriented companies, Datadog and MongoDB. Usually…
Read more Tech Leaders Once Cried for AI Regulation. Now the Message Is ‘Slow Down’Ever since the rollout of ChatGPT in November 2022, many people in science, business, and media have been obsessed with AI. A cursory look at my own published…
Read more Here’s Proof the AI Boom Is Real: More People Are Tapping ChatGPT at WorkIf all that is true—and there’s no way to tell right now—Groq might well pose a threat to the dominance of Nvidia. Ross is careful when discussing this.…
Read more The Mindblowing Experience of a Chatbot That Answers InstantlyTwo words in this statement popped out to me like a flying dinosaur in a mixed-reality headset: when possible. When I flagged this in a subsequent call, Roku…
Read more My Quest to Fix a Crashing Roku App Provides a Warning About AI
