Year: 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) constitutes a general-purpose technology — perhaps one with transformative potential not seen since the Industrial Revolution. The technology’s power to spur both beneficial and harmful change is…

THE MENTAL-HEALTH APP WOEBOT launched in 2017, back when “chatbot” wasn’t a familiar term and someone seeking a therapist could only imagine talking to a human being. Woebot was something exciting and…

Google’s AI Overviews search tool may not be following the best policies Last month when Google introduced its new AI search tool, called AI Overviews, the company seemed confident that it had tested…

This is the first of four posts summarizing hundreds of pages of technical reports focused almost entirely on forecasting one number. It's the single number I'd probably most value having…

The past year delivered one tech debacle after another, from the cryptocurrency implosion to Elon Musk’s reputational immolation, to Mark Zuckerberg’s weird bet that people would be thrilled by the addition of…