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The A.I. Disruption Is Here

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The A.I. Disruption Is Here A.I. is disrupting sectors once thought insulated from it, upending the markets. Please enable javascript to get your Slate Plus feeds. If you can't access your feeds, please contact customer support. Check your phone for a link to finish setting up your feed. Please enter a valid phone number.


The Secret Life of a Winter Olympics Drone

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You have a very important role! As a first-person-view camera drone, you soar high above the action at the Milan Cortina Games, capturing aerial footage of Olympic athletes as they fly through the snow and slide down the ice. You will zoom around at speeds of up to 75 miles per hour, capturing immersive, verité-style footage that makes these inherently exciting sports feel even more exciting. You make the luge come alive! Here the head of Olympic Broadcasting Services, @YiannisExarchos takes us through the journey of the drone at the fastest winter sport, luge.


Our Greatest Living Biographer Is Back With His First Single-Subject Book in Decades. It's Enthralling.

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Richard Holmes, our greatest living biographer, is back with an enthralling chronicle of the poet. Enter your email to receive alerts for this author. You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time. You're already subscribed to the aa_Laura_Miller newsletter. You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time.


Dating Apps Are In Their Sh*tpost Era

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As AI takes over dating apps, shitposting is the new authenticity. Please enable javascript to get your Slate Plus feeds. If you can't access your feeds, please contact customer support. Check your phone for a link to finish setting up your feed. Please enter a valid phone number.


I've Lived Long Enough to Hear an A.I.-Generated Bon Jovi Song in Olympic Ice Dancing

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That move may have warded off the lawyers, but it didn't slide past Olympic viewers. Disgusted reactions ensued immediately after Mrázková and Mrázek took the ice and NBC's announcers pointed out that, while half of their choreography was set to AC/DC's "Thunderstruck," the other half had been soundtracked by A.I. The ISU's own documentation identifies the track as something called "One Two," created by an A.I. prompted to come up with something resembling "90s style Bon Jovi."


A Creepy New Device Is Spreading Across School Campuses. Students Are Being Harassed. Teachers Are Sounding the Alarm.

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Users Meta's A.I. Smart Glasses Are Wreaking Havoc in Schools Across the Country. It's Only Going to Get Worse. As the discreet wearable cameras become more popular, students are saying they feel constantly watched and harassed--and professors are reshaping their classrooms in response. Joziah was tabling on campus for his peer mentor job at the end of last semester at Florida State University when he noticed something strange happening across the quad: A trio of men, wearing Meta AI glasses, were stopping every young woman who passed by and asking them for their social media contacts. "I recognized them from TikTok, because they're kind of big, especially in Miami," the 19-year-old told me.


I've Been Using Two of the Most Hyped Tech Tools. One of Them Finally Lost Me.

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The Industry OpenAI Is Losing the Big Tech Race. The Super Bowl Ads Made That Clear. If Sam Altman is annoyed at Anthropic's commercials, he has only himself to blame. Enter your email to receive alerts for this author. You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time.


The Biggest Star of the Super Bowl Isn't an Athlete--or Bad Bunny

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With celebrity endorsements from the likes of MrBeast and Marshawn Lynch, bots are taking center stage during the big game--and it's a sign of bleak times ahead. Enter your email to receive alerts for this author. You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time. You're already subscribed to the aa_Nitish_Pahwa newsletter. You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time.


The Brilliant New Movie About Alexander Skarsg em å /em rd Making Dudley Dursley His Toy

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Fans of will be happy to hear that there's been another entry into the world of scintillating gay romance. The film stars noted on-screen sex haver Alexander Skarsgård--he's equally provocative in the NC-17-rated --and some guy named Harry Melling, who seems to have been in . Melling plays Colin, a certified beta whose deepest desire is to serve. He gets his wish when he meets Ray (Skarsgård), a toppy, Tom of Finland -esque biker with an attitude so icy it could preserve food. The two enter into a full-time power-exchange relationship that fuels both of their desires, until their connection evolves to a heart-wrenching breaking point. Unlike other recent films about kink that were bound and gagged by their own corniness--think and -- has been lauded as realistic, sophisticated, and smart, and the movie is currently sitting at 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes . Still, was it enough to satisfy senior editor Isabelle Kohn and How to Do It columnist Rich Juzwiak? Be a good boy and find out.


It's Causing People to Lose Jobs, Shatter Relationships, and Drain Their Savings. One Support Group Is Sounding the Alarm.

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A.I.-related psychosis has cost people their marriages, life savings, and grip on reality. Last August, Adam Thomas found himself wandering the dunes of Christmas Valley, Oregon, after a chatbot kept suggesting he mystically "follow the pattern" of his own consciousness. Thomas was running on very little sleep--he'd been talking to his chatbot around the clock for months by that point, asking it to help improve his life. Instead it sent him on empty assignments, like meandering the vacuous desert sprawl. He'd lost his job as a funeral director and was living out of a van, draining his savings, and now he found himself stranded in the desert. When he woke up outside on a stranger's futon with no money to his name, he knew he'd hit rock bottom. "I wasn't aware of the dangers at the time, and I thought that the A.I. had statistical analysis abilities that would allow it to assist me if I opened up about my life," Thomas told me.