People use metaphors to depict AI. These guide our use of AI. I examine those metaphors. A twist is that AI itself can infuse ...
Comparing consciousness to a plasma ball can help us better understand key aspects of subjective conscious experience.
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Right now, accusations of ill-advised stunt casting are being flung at the West End, but Nicholas Hytner’s take on ...
People increasingly see chatbots in human-like ways, and yet also doubt their competence—raising challenging questions for how chatbot interfaces should be designed ...
In 2004, Spiegelman drew a strip — also included in Breakdowns — where he gifts his son, Dash, a locked chest, something he ...
Applications for the annual Tremont Writers Conference will be accepted through May 15. The conference will be held Oct.
One of the many peculiarities of recent U.S. cultural trends is the “over-55 community,” gated havens for well-off retirees ...
After a Border Patrol agent was killed in a shootout in Vermont in January, the apparent outlines of a grander conspiracy ...
Creative depictions of cold water swimming show how writers' insights can advance knowledge of the senses hardest to describe ...
Sonya Walger’s autobiographical ‘Lion’ memorializes a parent who was always elsewhere, even when he was by her side.