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The CEO of one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence labs just said the quiet part out loud: that nobody really knows how AI works. In an essay published to his personal website, Anthropic ...

For Malcolm Washington, an appreciation for August Wilson plays runs in the family. Several years ago, his father Denzel committed to producing film adaptations of Wilson’s Century Cycle plays — a ...

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It should be clear to everyone that the Google documentation leak and the public documents from antitrust hearings do not really tell us exactly how the rankings work. The structure of organic search ...

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It’s still early days for our understanding of AI, so expect more glitches and fails as it becomes a part of real-world products. This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter ...