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Matteo Wong

Matteo Wong

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Elon Musk’s EV Empire Is Crumbling

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...

24.04.2024 8

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Your Fast Food Is Already Automated

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...

18.04.2024 5

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The AI Revolution Is Crushing Thousands of Languages

English is the internet’s primary tongue—a fact that may have unexpected consequences as generative AI becomes central to daily life. Recently,...

12.04.2024 10

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What Is AI Without Its Capacity for Delight?

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...

05.04.2024 6

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AI for the People, Courtesy of … Elon Musk?

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:...

19.03.2024 6

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This Is Where the AI Race Goes Next

Applications such as ChatGPT and DALL-E have captured the world’s imagination—but AI companies are focused on something else. Artificial...

07.03.2024 10

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What Should We Say to the Whales?

How communicating with cetaceans could unsettle our basic notions of intelligence This is Atlantic Intelligence, a limited-run series in which The...

05.03.2024 8

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Every Car Is an Apple Car

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...

28.02.2024 20

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I Went to a Rave With the 46-Year-Old Millionaire Who Claims to Have the Body of a Teenager

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...

23.02.2024 30

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How to Market a World-Changing AI

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....

17.02.2024 10

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The Holy Grail for AI Research

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...

16.02.2024 10

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He Predicted the Metaverse, Crypto, and Chatbots

The sci-fi legend Neal Stephenson was unnervingly prescient about our AI age. Science fiction, when revisited years later, sometimes doesn’t come...

06.02.2024 9

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What If We Held ChatGPT to the Same Standard as Claudine Gay?

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...

11.01.2024 40

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There Was Never Such a Thing as ‘Open’ AI

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...

05.01.2024 10

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Building AI Safety Is Getting Harder and Harder

A leading AI data set reportedly contained images of child sexual abuse. Don’t be surprised. This is Atlantic Intelligence , an eight-week...

22.12.2023 5

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Science Is Becoming Less Human

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...

11.12.2023 10

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Generative AI’s iPhone Moment

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...

07.12.2023 4

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HBD, GPT

Reconsidering the chatbot that changed everything This is Atlantic Intelligence, an eight-week series in which The Atlantic’s leading thinkers on...

01.12.2023 3

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Scientists Are Turning Basically Everything Into Gluten-Free Pasta

More parmesan on your durian-seed rigatoni? To my grandmother, who has lived her entire life in Italy, gluten-free pasta is “una...

27.11.2023 7

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Don’t Be Fooled by the AI Apocalypse

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...

16.11.2023 3

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The New Big Tech

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...

25.10.2023 10

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Computers Are Learning to Smell

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....

13.10.2023 8

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Artists Are Losing the War Against AI

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...

02.10.2023 10

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The End of Scantron Tests

Machine-graded bubble sheets are the defining feature of American schools. Today's kindergarteners may never have to fill one out. Through funding...

19.09.2023 30

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