This week we're featuring an interview with science journalist Catherine Price, whose new book How to Break Up with Your Phone offers a highly practical synthesis of recent research on tech addiction. In the second half of the book, Price provides a complete 30-day plan for restoring a sense of balance and…
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OpenAI, the artificial intelligence nonprofit behind some of the field’s most impressive recent achievements, just released a new language-learning model so powerful that it helped journalists write about it. The system, innocuously dubbed GPT-2, has given new fodder to the ongoing debate…
Read MoreFacebook recently turned 15. As mistrust and misgivings about the platform continue to spread, a recent working paper looks at the effects of deactivating Facebook for four weeks. The results, as summarized by the New York Times: “More in-person time with friends and family. Less political knowledge, but also less partisan fever. A small bump in one’s daily moods…
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