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Anthropic’s Claude Is Good at Poetry—and Bullshitting

The researchers of Anthropic’s interpretability group know that Claude, the company’s large language model, is not a human being, or even a conscious...

Yahoo Is Still Here—and It Has Big Plans for AI

In September 2021, Jim Lanzone took over a company whose name once embodied the go-go spirit of the internet but had, over the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...