How Beloved Indie Blog ‘The Hairpin’ Turned Into an AI Clickbait Farm
What a heinous month for the media. Almost every day, a publication announces layoffs or shuts down. Sports Illustrated just…
What a heinous month for the media. Almost every day, a publication announces layoffs or shuts down. Sports Illustrated just…
On January 24, Apple’s Macintosh computer turns 40. Normally that number is an inexorable milestone of middle age. Indeed, in…
Until last November, I had never heard of Perry Johnson and Associates. But they had heard of me. In fact,…
No one knows whether artificial intelligence will be a boon or curse in the far future. But right now, there’s…
Steven Johnson has written 13 books, on topics ranging from a London cholera outbreak to the value of video games.…
No human celebrating a first birthday is as verbose, knowledgeable, or prone to fabrication as ChatGPT, which is blowing out…
In June I had a conversation with chief scientist Ilya Sutskever at OpenAI’s headquarters, as I reported WIRED’s October cover…
Early in the pandemic, an agent—literary, not software—suggested Fei-Fei Li write a book. The approach made sense. She has made…
As ChatGPT’s first birthday approaches, presents are rolling in for the large language model that rocked the world. From President…
When I first heard in 2013 that Barack Obama had chosen Tom Wheeler to head the crucial tech regulator that…
As a general rule, any essay that includes the one-sentence paragraph “I am here to bring the good news” is…
Journalist Taylor Lorenz isn’t the first to declare legacy media a dead industry walking. But few voice it with the…
The best virtual reality experience I’ve had this year was not with the $500 Quest 3 or the $3,500 Apple…
When I bring up these concerns to Meta’s VP of generative AI, Ahmad Al-Dahle, post-keynote, he accuses me of having…