The latest large language models appear to question, display emotion, convey preference, possess independent thought, and even offer wisdom. Is this still algorithms, or something deeper?
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[caption id="attachment_55255989" align="alignnone" width="5568"] Signs for company Cambridge Analytica in the lobby of the building in which they are based on March 21, 2018 in London, England. …
[caption id="attachment_55255992" align="alignnone" width="940"] The Jamam refugee camp in Upper Nile State, South Sudan houses 36,500 vulnerable people who have fled across the border from their…
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by Alyson Krueger
It started out for Sam Machado as a relatively low…
by Yasmine El-Geressi
Professor Stephen William Hawking, whose theory of black holes altered the course of modern scientific thought, and whose ability to convey abstract concepts of quantum…
by Peter L. Levin
During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Macedonian teens looking to get paid for ad-clicks, Russian cyber sophisticates apparently looking to tilt the outcome, and some home…
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by Karen Kaplan
To the list of ways that humans are making it hard for zebras, giraffes and other large mammals to…
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by Bryn Haworth*
In his book Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari is concerned with a human future that is no longer strictly human at all. It is a future that finally belongs to the geeks and to their…
[caption id="attachment_55254731" align="aligncenter" width="512"] Helen Popp[/caption] Maia Otarashvili* Ten years after experiencing debilitating cyber attacks from Russia, Estonia is more wired…
His emerging strategy shows a willingness to gamble on high-profile assassinations, even at the expense of diplomatic blowback, regional stability, and fragile negotiations
While the US public has long been supportive of Israel, its genocide in Gaza appears to have had a big effect, with most young Americans now outright hostile towards it
A 24-minute standing ovation at the film premiere was more than a symbolic gesture of justice for Israel's murder of little Hind, but a heartfelt cry of real anguish over the ongoing genocide in Gaza
The Egyptian novelist—one of the Arab world's renowned writers of epic fiction—reveals the details of his craft to Al Majalla as the fourth book in his 'River' series captures a key moment