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fromThe New Yorker
1 week ago

The Year in Slop

The Turing test, a long-established tool for measuring machine intelligence, gauges the point at which a text-generating machine can fool a human into thinking it's not a robot. ChatGPT passed that benchmark earlier this year, inaugurating a new technological era, though not necessarily one of superhuman intelligence. More recently, however, artificial intelligence passed another threshold, a kind of Turing test for the eye: the images and videos that A.I. can produce are now sometimes indistinguishable from real ones.
Artificial intelligence
World politics
fromwww.nature.com
2 weeks ago

AI chatbots can persuade voters to change their minds

Dialogues with large language models can measurably shift political attitudes and pose risks to democratic decision-making.
New York City
fromwww.mediaite.com
2 months ago

Zohran Mamdani vs. Fox's Martha MacCallum: The Interview That Actually Worked

A civil, substantive interview allowed a Democratic Socialist candidate to appear three-dimensional and explain policy to skeptical viewers.
fromBuzzFeed
3 months ago

"My Dad's Gay Now": 12 People Share What Made Their Parents Realize Voting For Donald Trump Was A Mistake

During the 2024 election season, he heard me rant about Trump's criminality, his horrible treatment of women and people of color, and his overall lack of morality. I was deeply disappointed to think he would still vote for Trump in 2024 and struggled with my feelings toward my dad, who's a decent man that I love so much. But who would vote for a nightmare of a human being like Trump?
US politics
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