The real shock of generative AI is not automation but the loss of language as a human monopoly. An existential reckoning.

The poets (by which I mean all artists) are finally the only people who know the truth about us. Soldiers don’t. Statesmen don’t. Priests don’t. Union ...

Sylvia Plath believed self-doubt crippled creativity. She argued that courage and imagination are vital for writing about ...

When love contracts, it lives in the chest of one person. When it expands, it becomes the world. Jigar Moradabadi understood ...

A couple of years ago, Sunil Sarath Perera published a collection of essays titled ‘Mathaka Nimnaya,’ or ‘The valley of ...

An artificial-intelligence algorithm that discovers its own way to learn achieves state-of-the-art performance, including on some tasks it had never encountered before. Joel Lehman is at Lila Sciences ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Social media platforms are more than just tools for sharing cat videos or keeping up with friends—they're powerful influencers of public opinion. The algorithms that drive these platforms determine ...

Three new books warn against turning into the person the algorithm thinks you are. Like a lot of Netflix subscribers, I find that my personal feed tends to be hit or miss. Usually more miss. The ...