Jacob Stern
Can a Boxer Return to the Ring After Killing?
In 2019, Charles Conwell unintentionally ended Patrick Day’s life with his fists. Now he’s trying to make sense of his life, and boxing itself.
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Illustration by Matt Chase / The Atlantic. Source: … AI Is Like … Nuclear Weapons?
The new technology is beyond comparison.
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Illustration by The Atlantic GPT-4 Has the Memory of a Goldfish
Large language models know a lot but can’t remember much at all.
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Matt Chase / The Atlantic GPT-4 Might Just Be a Bloated, Pointless Mess
Will endless “scaling” of our current language models really bring true machine intelligence?
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The Atlantic; Getty Bird Flu Leaves the World With an Existential Choice
To prepare for future outbreaks, we’ll have to decide which is the greater danger: nature or ourselves.
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Alamy; The Atlantic More Seinfeld Than Seinfeld Itself
An AI version of the classic sitcom was funny—until it wasn’t.
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Getty; The Atlantic A Machine Crushed Us at Pokémon
Mastering games could be the first step to mastering real life.
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Getty; The Atlantic Angry Football Fans Keep Punching Their TVs
And shooting them, and knifing them, and running them over with trucks
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Getty; The Atlantic Whatever Happened to Toilet Plumes?
Beware the lidless toilet, even if one won’t give you COVID-19.
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Getty; The Atlantic May the Best Stove Win
Joe Biden isn’t banning gas stoves. They might be doomed anyway.
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Josh Edelson / AFP / Getty Suddenly, California Has Too Much Water
The state is being tossed between awful climate extremes.
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Getty; The Atlantic Maybe Don’t Unleash the Kraken
The ways we’re talking about the coronavirus are only getting weirder.
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Getty; The Atlantic Should Everyone Be Masking Again?
’Tis the season to cover your nose and mouth.
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The Atlantic Commercials Desperately Want You to Know They Know What They Are
What happens when advertising goes postmodern?
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic Five Remarkable Chats That Will Help You Understand ChatGPT
The powerful new chatbot could make all sorts of trouble. But for now, it’s mostly a meme machine.
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Getty; The Atlantic The World Cup of Microsoft Excel
How can watching people fiddle with spreadsheets possibly be this fun?
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty What Has Technology Done to Soccer?
Perfect referees are a soccer fan’s nightmare.
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Catherine Steenkeste / Getty The Sumptuous Minimalism of Lionel Messi
An ode to the greatest footballer ever to play the game
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Getty; The Atlantic PredictIt Already Won
America's favorite political-betting site is shutting down just as online gambling goes mainstream.
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TSPL / Camera Press / Redux What a ‘Tripledemic’ Means for Your Body
How many times will I get sick this winter?
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty; Elijah Nouvelage / Getty; … Democrats Keep Falling for ‘Superstar Losers’
There’s never been a better time to lose an election.
