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AI Thinks It Cracked Kryptos. The Artist Behind It Says No Chance

For 35 years, amateur and professional cryptographers have tried to crack the code on Kryptos, a majestic sculpture that sits behind CIA headquarters...

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Roll Over Shakespeare: ChatGPT Is Here

Sitting in Lincoln Center awaiting the curtain for Ayad Akhtar’s McNeal—a much anticipated theater production starring Robert Downey Jr., with ChatGPT in a...

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2025: The Year of the AI App

What a great idea I had for the first Plaintext of 2025. After following the frantic competition between OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Anthropic...

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DeepSeek Has Gotten OpenAI Fired Up

It’s been just over a week since DeepSeek upended the AI world. The introduction of its open-weight model—apparently trained on a fraction of...

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The Inside Story of Apple Intelligence

Google, Meta, and Microsoft, as well as startups like OpenAI and Anthropic, all had well-developed strategies for generative AI by the time Apple...

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Donald Trump Isn’t the Only Chaos Agent

Eight years ago, the November US election results profoundly shocked the small staff at Backchannel, the boutique tech publication I headed. The morning...

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AI Will Understand Humans Better Than Humans Do

Michal Kosinski is a Stanford research psychologist with a nose for timely subjects. He sees his work as not only advancing knowledge, but...

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AI's Big Gift to Society Is … Pithy Summaries?

Companies keep rolling out AI features that boil down various kinds of text. They're making us dumber. Source link

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No, Sam Altman, AI Won’t Solve All of Humanity’s Problems

We already knew where OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, stands on artificial intelligence vis-à-vis the human saga: It will be transformative, historic, and overwhelmingly...

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