5 min read · Sep 11, 2016 -- Why we urgently need to measure AI’s societal impacts How will artificial intelligence systems change the way we live? This is a tough question: on one hand, AI tools are
Tech Elimination of human curators results in some false stories, misidentified keywords, while serious news loses out Sept. 6, 2016 11:44 am ET Mark Zuckerberg, shown in April, recently told attendee
AirPods will turn out to be one of the more strategically important hardware products Apple has released this decade. However, you would never know it judging from the way Apple unveiled the device la
Eric Draper/George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum Journalist Garrett M. Graff ( @vermontgmg ) is the author of The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 , and a former editor of POLI
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In the eight months since I wrote Cars and the Future , there has been an explosion in news about the future of transportation, much of it in the last few weeks: Ford announced plans for its own car-s
Go to Campo dei Fiori in Rome on 17 February and you will find yourself surrounded by a motley crowd of atheists, pantheists, anarchists, Masons, mystics, Christian reformers and members of the Italia
It is clear after the Brexit vote and Donald Trump’s victory in the Republican presidential primaries that voters are revolting against the relatively open economic policies that have been the norm in
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F EW critics have even admitted that Hamlet the play is the primary problem, and Hamlet the character only secondary. And Hamlet the character has had an especial temptation for that most dangerous type of critic: the critic with a mind which is naturally of the creative order, but which through…
Last March, when President Obama travelled to Argentina to meet with the country’s new President, Mauricio Macri, his public appearances were dogged by protesters who noisily demanded explanations, an
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Hamish McKenzie Contributor I was recently in China, which meant I was living on WeChat . All my meetings, from CEOs to academics to old friends, were arranged through the app. I authenticated my identity for free Wi-Fi at shopping malls with WeChat. I checked in for a flight by scanning a QR code…
Rudy Giuliani exits the stage after speaking last month at the Republican National Convention. PHOTOGRAPH BY BRIAN VAN DER BRUG / LOS ANGELES TIMES / GETTY There was a moment during Rudolph Giuliani’s
In recent months , the WikiLeaks Twitter feed has started to look more like the stream of an opposition research firm working mainly to undermine Hillary Clinton than the updates of a non-partisan pla
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Russian President Vladimir Putin. Reuters Russia's troll factories were, at one point, likely being paid by the Kremlin to spread pro-Trump propaganda on social media. Advertisement Advertisement That
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Over the last year there has been a recurrent refrain about the seeming bromance between Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. More seriously, but relatedly, many believe Trump is an admi
“I put lipstick on a pig,” Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter, says. He feels “deep remorse.” Illustration by Javier Jaén Last June, as dusk fell outside Tony Schwartz’s sprawling house, on a leafy back r
Now that the plaster has stopped falling from the ceiling, and my latest prang has stopped ringing in my ears, it is time to admit that there is a certain surreal joy in being sacked. It is meant as n
From left, visually impaired Microsoft developer Saqib Shaikh stands next to CEO Satya Nadella during his keynote address at the 2016 Microsoft Build Developer Conference. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Amid the post-referendum rending of garments over Brexit, it has become settled wisdom that it was older working-class voters who spearheaded the Leave vote. But plenty of olde
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Most coverage of Donald Trump’s rallies are about people disrupting it. But one American journalist went there and quietly observed what was going on. He came back shaken and scared. Jared Yates Sexton is a writer and political correspondent from the state of Georgia. Yesterday, Donald Trump held a…
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This will be the largest cognitive leap in human history. Published in Chatbots Magazine · 6 min read · May 12, 2016 -- What if I told you that in my vision of the future you are going to start sharin
Ed Hawkins spends his days doing, you know, climate science. A professor at the University of Reading in the UK, he has published widely on the overturning circulation in the north Atlantic Ocean, as
TRANSLATIONS: 中文 (品玩) Lately, everyone’s talking about “conversational UI.” It’s the next big thing. But the more articles I read on the topic, the more annoyed I get. It’s taken me so long to figure
Last night around 3 a.m., I was doing some research into chatbots and the bot ecosystem. Why? Because yesterday I started working on building a bot for an upcoming blog post and I have an addictive pe
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Two weeks after China’s President toured state media offices and called for absolute loyalty from the press, a website with links to the government published an explosive letter asking him to resign “
Book Entry Review: ‘Saving the Media’ Seeks Remedy for Ailing Fourth Estate The emergence of the Internet and various forms of digital production and distribution have had a profound and well-document
No, Not Trump, Not Ever The voters have spoken. In convincing fashion, Republican voters seem to be selecting Donald Trump as their nominee. And in a democracy, victory has legitimacy to it. Voters ar
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