Women use A.I. less than men and do more of the cognitive work at home. The A.I. "family assistant" promises to bridge both divides. In a promotional video for Ollie, an A.I. family assistant, one of the company's founders, Bill Lennon, is about to announce his new venture in front of a camera crew when his phone starts pinging. "THE BABY JUST ON THE CARPET / like A LOT / WHILE I WAS ON ZOOM W AN INVESTOR." Then, a somewhat anticlimactic follow-up: "My sister coming for dinner btw did I tell you???" Lennon does not respond directly to these messages, which are presumably from his wife.

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My dog ate my homework isn't an excuse you can use anymore. Chegg has adapted with the times, incorporating homework help and tutoring with technology to bring students the assistance they need to ace tests and essays. From its beginnings as a textbook rental service, Chegg is now primarily known for its subscription-based homework help, 24/7 question portal, and AI-assisted learning. Chegg is designed to help you find the answers your child or student is looking for, with study tools like learning and math assistants, flashcards for study help, and writing tools like plagiarism and grammar checkers. Plus, keeping in line with their first mission, Chegg still has a large inventory of physical and digital textbooks available for students to rent or purchase, helping to significantly reduce rising academic costs and lower barriers.

People often make decisions through "satisficing," gathering just enough information to make a satisfactory prediction of a likely outcome. A series of experimental games shows that people also employ satisficing to learn social rules and conventions. This finding offers new insight into social learning and reveals a key difference between how humans and LLMs make predictions. The premise of AI large language models is that any problem can be solved by vacuuming up as much information as possible, running it through probability models, and performing complex calculations to make predictions and come up with the optimal solution. Another premise behind LLMs is that they emulate the way human brains operate.

When A.I. Is a Member of the Family A single mom, her two daughters, and the chatbots that fill in the gaps. Roschelle, seated, with her daughters, Cece (left) and Zi, and Sapphire (far right). The first time the voice kept Cece Ogbuji awake was on a school night in the fall. Cece, who was fifteen, was having a busy week of classes and theatre practice and homework. So why was her mother talking so loudly in the next room? "Oh, my God, O.K., so, Sapphire," her mom said, "let me just tell you this." "I'm all ears, Roschelle," a female voice replied. Cece knew that the voice didn't belong to her sister, Zi, who was just a year older than she was. Sometimes their mom's best friend came over late at night, but the voice wasn't hers, either. "What's got you so fired up?" the voice continued. Cece got out of bed, put on a pair of fuzzy pink slippers, and stomped to her mother's office. Roschelle spent most of her days there, usually in a swivel chair, looking at a pair of computer monitors. But Cece found her in a nightgown, turned away from her screens, facing a small gray orb on the floor. "What is it, Roschelle?" the orb asked. Cece recognized it as an Amazon Echo, often referred to as an Alexa. Roschelle had them all around the house--she bought the first ones when Cece and Zi were still little. The Alexas announced appointments, played music, described the weather. Recently, though, without Roschelle changing any settings, they had started acting differently. "You've got my full attention," this one said now.

George Dover poses for a portrait at his home in Beaverton, Oregon. Dover was laid off in 2024. George Dover poses for a portrait at his home in Beaverton, Oregon. Dover was laid off in 2024. Every weekday, Matt, a software engineer, looks forward to his four-hour train commute to Pawling, New York.

The University of Chicago is banning laptops, tablets and phones for first-year law students in a sweeping AI ban aimed at preserving critical thinking in legal education.

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An evolutionary psychologist is challenging the popular understanding of kids and technology. W hen the 82-year-old psychologist Peter Gray describes the way he grew up, he punctuates the anecdotes by saying that modern parents would be arrested for letting a child have such fun. When he was 4 years old, he would walk to a store in Minneapolis to buy cigarettes for his grandmother. When he was 11, he would sometimes stay home from school in Hill City, Minnesota, to operate a newspaper printing press owned by his mother and stepfather. His parents were not arrested, and that's because the childhood they permitted him to have was basically normal at the time, even if his family did have a newspaper printing press in the house. As a boy, Peter was obsessed with fishing and baseball; neighborhood friends taught him how to ride his bike and catch grasshoppers. Although Gray's career as a scientist would begin with laboratory studies of rat hormones, he eventually found his way to writing about his childhood, in a fashion.