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Science Decoding whale language could unlock new legal rights for them Ruben Bolling

AI Ted Chiang argues an LLM chatbot is as conscious as Microsoft Word Ellsworth Toohey

science fiction 'They're Made Out of Meat,' rewritten as a dialogue about LLMs Ellsworth Toohey

law AI beat law professors in 75% of blind matchups, Stanford finds Ellsworth Toohey

AI Harvard students cheer graduation speaker encouraging them to mercilessly destroy AI Rob Beschizza

law CNN sues Perplexity AI over "verbatim" copies of articles Rob Beschizza

retrocomputing ZX Spectrum basic interpreter remade from scratch on the web Rob Beschizza

Science Humans are the only primates with a lopsided hand preference Ellsworth Toohey

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Technology The case for thinking of yourself as a meat-based language model Ellsworth Toohey

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Technology Researchers built a language model that thinks it's still 1930 Ellsworth Toohey

Due is a reminder app that really works Gail Sherman

politics Talkie is an AI language model trained only on pre-1931 texts Rob Beschizza

Technology Sony's table tennis robot beat a pro player she couldn't read Ellsworth Toohey