Technology

ChatGPT Has Impostor Syndrome

AI doesn’t know its own strengths.

A Classic American Car Is Having an Identity Crisis

Ford’s electric Mustang, the Mach-E, is attracting an unusual bunch of drivers—including me.

Nine AI Chatbots You Can Play With Right Now

The machines may change the world as you know it. But first, they’ll write a sonnet based on your favorite cereal.

AI Is Exposing Who Really Has Power in Silicon Valley

Your data helped build ChatGPT. Where’s your payout?

AI Is Like … Nuclear Weapons?

The new technology is beyond comparison.

People Aren’t Falling for AI Trump Photos (Yet)

Fake images of Trump getting arrested may not fool anyone—but the next thing cooked up by AI might.

Blue Check Marks Were Always Shameless

Twitter verification was first a tool for vanity.

How Ivermectin Became a Belief System

The deworming drug is central to an improvisational, alternative medical subculture that was forming even before the pandemic.

Is This the Singularity for Standardized Tests?

GPT-4’s mastery of the SAT will re-entrench the power and influence of rote exams.

Cool People Accidentally Saved America’s Feet

Millennials popularized bulky, super-cushioned shoes. Then Millennials got old.

Please Get Me Out of Dead-Dog TikTok

TikTok's algorithms have people stuck on a viral-grief loop.

GPT-4 Has the Memory of a Goldfish

Large language models know a lot but can’t remember much at all.

Welcome to the Big Blur

Thanks to AI, every written word now comes with a question.

ChatGPT Changed Everything. Now Its Follow-Up Is Here.

Behold GPT-4. Here’s what we know it can do, and what it can’t.

Why Are We Letting the AI Crisis Just Happen?

Bad actors could seize on large language models to engineer falsehoods at unprecedented scale.

Silicon Valley Was Unstoppable. Now It’s Just a House of Cards.

The bank debacle is exposing the myth of tech exceptionalism.

We Programmed ChatGPT Into This Article. It’s Weird.

Please don’t embarrass us, robots.

Elon Musk Is Spiraling

One Elon is a visionary; the other is a troll. The more he tweets, the harder it gets to tell them apart.

Duck Off, Autocorrect

Chatbots can write poems in the voice of Shakespeare. So why are phone keyboards still thr wosrt?

Prepare for the Textpocalypse

Our relationship to writing is about to change forever; it may not end well.