The A.I. prediction world is torn between optimism and gloom. A report released on Thursday decidedly lands on the side of gloom.

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Okay. Let’s talk about AI. Yes, again. The Macalope knows, believe him. Much like many things these days, there is a somewhat wide gulf of beliefs about the state of artificial intelligence.

"The immediacy of AI chatbots makes them an attractive alternative to human-to-human therapy that is expensive and often inconvenient," Hard Fork podcast host Kevin Roose shared with The New York ...

Three arguments for taking progress toward artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I., more seriously — whether you’re an optimist or a pessimist. The Shift Three arguments for taking progress ...

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Writing on his own and for Washington Monthly and Mother Jones, he earned a reputation as a serious policy thinker. He also invented Friday cat blogging. By Clay Risen Kevin Drum, who gave up his ...

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One day in early 2004, I called my senior editor at the Washington Monthly, Josh Marshall, with a proposition: Would he be interested in moving his blog, Talkingpointsmemo.com (TPM), which he was ...