fascinating piece from Sarah Zhang on how some AI models might, after all, be able to learn in a way that is, maybe, analogous to a toddler!

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For a third consecutive year, The Atlantic has earned the top honor of General Excellence at the 2024 National Magazine Awards, recognizing a year of exceptional journalism and storytelling.

my pal David Sims and i started a baseball podcast!! and the mets instantly became... evil? haha! ok!

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Doctors want to talk to you about your gun now. My latest for The Atlantic, with a paywall-free link in the comments.

smart and alarming investigation here

For The Atlantic, I wrote about what will be lost when nothing is ever lost in translation again theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

i’m a little bit sad girl i’ve always been doesn’t only live on the vinyl anymore

This piece does not miss!!

“They are his agents of chaos,” noted a prominent businessperson who requested anonymity in hopes of getting phone calls returned by City Hall.

Super cool to see this research officially published—I covered it when it first posted last January! theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

While reporting this story, I heard about a few pregnant moms who went great lengths to take a new cystic fibrosis drug for their baby.

I found this so fascinating because we're usually so cautious about drugs during pregnancy, so I wrote a follow up:

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If you read anything today make it this fascinating, shocking, poignant piece from sarah!

The feud between Elon's more open Grok and OpenAI's closed ChatGPT represents 'sides of the same coin: ways to overcome the technology’s tremendous capital requirements that will not, on their own, redistribute that capital', I write for The Atlantic

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For years I’ve been interviewing data annotation workers who are the lifeblood of the AI industry. For years I’ve heard the same story: the platforms they work for wield total power, leaving them precarious & vulnerable to exploitation. A horrible example of this just happened 1/

Smart, from Charlie Warzel: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Re-upping my philosophical chat with Christopher Nolan about technology—as a force in the world and in his films—ahead of his big night:

Gift link: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

The SAT is going digital, another mark in the long decline of Scantron and similar machines—a technology that has quietly shaped every reform and debate in American education for a century, as I wrote for The Atlantic in September: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

The real AI race is over hardware, not software. As AI products begin to strain the world's energy supply, Big Tech companies are competing to develop more efficient computer chips—and those chips will determine the technology's future:

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So fantastic to have the opportunity to be in conversation with Ross about his fantastic feature, which you must go read!

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