Julian Green was explaining the big problem with meetings when our meeting started to glitch. The pixels of his face rearranged themselves. A sentence came out as hiccups. Then he sputtered, froze, and ghosted. Green and I had been chatting on…
The New York Times
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Cade Metz
– Nov 23, 2020, 11:30 PM
GPT-3, the latest incarnation of artificially intelligent natural-language systems, knows how to write — and write and write and write. For a taste of what it can (and cannot) do, here are three examples of its verbosity. In each case, we…
The New York Times
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Ben Casselman
– Nov 25, 2020, 4:05 AM
Government data due on Thursday is expected to show that applications for unemployment benefits remained high last week as the nationwide surge in coronavirus cases threatens to undermine the economic recovery. Economists surveyed by FactSet expect…
In August 2019, Kara Kundert was ready to raise some money for Bluegrass Pride, an organization that promotes bluegrass music among LGBTQ+ musicians, where she is the executive director. The Internal Revenue Service had just certified Bluegrass…
The makers of a third coronavirus vaccine announced positive results in clinical trials on Monday, setting off yet another round of excited news reports. This one, produced by a partnership between a University of Oxford research institute, its…
