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Matteo WongThe Atlantic |
Tesla’s future as the next Ford is in doubt. Instead, the company may become the next Con Ed. Of late, Tesla’s cars have come to seem a bit...
The founder of Chipotle wants to reinvent lunch using robots. Is that really a reinvention at all? Moments after receiving my lunch order, the robots...
English is the internet’s primary tongue—a fact that may have unexpected consequences as generative AI becomes central to daily life. Recently,...
The technology is losing its spark, which means it’s here to stay. This is Atlantic Intelligence, a limited-run series in which our writers help...
Transparency, or the appearance of it, is the technology’s new norm. Yesterday afternoon, Elon Musk fired the latest shot in his feud with OpenAI:...
Applications such as ChatGPT and DALL-E have captured the world’s imagination—but AI companies are focused on something else. Artificial...
How communicating with cetaceans could unsettle our basic notions of intelligence This is Atlantic Intelligence, a limited-run series in which The...
The tech giant is reportedly scratching its decade-long plan to build an EV. It’s upended the auto industry anyway. Apple has long been a company...
Bryan Johnson wants to build a nation of immortals. Would you join? The first few steps on the path toward living forever alongside the longevity...
A new program from the ChatGPT maker promises to create videos from simple text prompts, but little is known about how it will actually work....
What happens if AI learns to teach itself? ChatGPT exploded into the world in the fall of 2022, sparking a race toward ever more advanced artificial...
The sci-fi legend Neal Stephenson was unnervingly prescient about our AI age. Science fiction, when revisited years later, sometimes doesn’t come...
The problem with generative AI is plagiarism, not copyright. If you squint and tilt your head, you can see some similarities in the blurry shapes that...
Transparency isn’t enough to democratize the technology. At the turn of the century, when the modern web was just emerging and Microsoft was king, a...
A leading AI data set reportedly contained images of child sexual abuse. Don’t be surprised. This is Atlantic Intelligence , an eight-week...
AI is accelerating the pace of discovery—but at what cost? This summer, a pill intended to treat a chronic, incurable lung disease entered mid-phase...
Google’s long-awaited Gemini model shows that the technology is losing its magic. After nearly seven months of rumors and delays, Google has finally...
Reconsidering the chatbot that changed everything This is Atlantic Intelligence, an eight-week series in which The Atlantic’s leading thinkers on...
More parmesan on your durian-seed rigatoni? To my grandmother, who has lived her entire life in Italy, gluten-free pasta is “una...
A guide to understanding which fears are real and which aren’t This is Atlantic Intelligence, an eight-week series in which The Atlantic’s...
A slate of four AI companies might soon rule Silicon Valley. Just about everything you do on the internet is filtered through a handful of tech...
AI could revolutionize our understanding of one of the most mysterious human senses. You know the smell of warm, buttered popcorn. A crisp autumn day....
OpenAI has introduced a tool for artists to keep their images from training future AI programs. It may not make a difference. Late last month, after a...
Machine-graded bubble sheets are the defining feature of American schools. Today's kindergarteners may never have to fill one out. Through funding...