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OpenAI’s new language generator GPT-3 is shockingly good—and completely mindless
Paywall possible · 303 saves · Jul 20th · “Playing with GPT-3 feels like seeing the future,” Arram Sabeti, a San Francisco–based developer and artist, tweeted last week. That pretty much sums up…
I Am a Model And I Know That Artificial Intelligence Will Eventually Take My Job
1 min read · 193 saves · Jul 21st · Sinead Bovell · Sinead Bovell shares her firsthand insight into the future of technology in fashion.
The Man Whose Science Fiction Keeps Turning Into Our Shitty Cyberpunk Reality
20+ min read · Paywall possible · 174 saves · Jul 24th · Brian Merchant · A Q+A with the novelist Tim Maughan, whose disturbing future predictions have had an unfortunate habit of coming true
Orwell on the Future
4 min read · Paywall possible · 122 saves · Jul 23rd · Lionel Trilling · In his 1949 review, Lionel Trilling writes that George Orwell’s “1984” is about a state power that was coercing, not cosseting, its citizens into…
The Fantasy and the Cyberpunk Futurism of Singapore
2 min read · Paywall possible · 118 saves · Jul 29th · Jerrine Tan · Revisiting William Gibson’s 1993 essay on the city-state took me back to my home, where future is past.
What does the future of artificial intelligence mean for humans?
7 min read · 118 saves · Jul 28th · The first question many people ask about artificial intelligence (AI) is, "Will it be good or bad?"
How fiction can help us imagine the future
8 min read · 112 saves · Jul 27th · Vikram Mansharamani · In an age of big data, artificial intelligence, and continual forecasting, fiction can help us navigate uncertainty by opening our eyes to a wide…
Future generations deserve good ancestors. Will you be one?
6 min read · Paywall possible · 108 saves · Jul 21st · The living, the dead and the unborn are all here with us: we must respect their interests and their world as much as our…
Most polar bears to disappear by 2100, study predicts
5 min read · 89 saves · Jul 20th · Gloria Dickie · Melting Arctic sea ice could cause starvation and reproductive failure for many as early as 2040, scientists warn
Why the car of the future is more like a Lego set than a Bond ride
3 min read · 84 saves · Jul 31st · Mark Wilson · Electric. Modular. And pretty much whatever you want it to be.