How to Do It My Boyfriend Said His Family Friend Is Like a "Sister" to Him. Uh, That's Not What His Computer History Says. Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. I've been with my boyfriend for a year and things have been smooth sailing so far, with very little contention between us two. But about a week ago, he left his laptop open on the bed and I decided to take a look at his ChatGPT history.

Food Can the Real Restaurant Phone Be Saved? Across the industry, A.I. is poised to take over reservations by phone. But what if parrying with a grouchy maître d' is part of what makes dining out great? Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The first time I called Kat--the conversational A.I. receptionist fielding calls at fried-chicken-and-ramen joint Katsubō, in Charleston, South Carolina--I heard the convincing din of restaurant background noise before she addressed me in her youthful (cheeky, even?) voice.

The president's Justice Department tried to "coerce" a group of top Democrats. A Republican-appointed judge was not amused. This story is adapted from Slate's new and revamped Slatest newsletter. You can sign up here to get it in your inbox every day. A federal judge just slapped down an attempt by the Trump administration to intimidate Minnesota Democrats.

Science A.I.'s First Big Math Breakthrough Is Not What It Seems But it can help us do genuinely creative work--for a reason you might not expect. Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Last month, OpenAI announced that its latest version of ChatGPT had solved a major math problem, one that had stumped experts for 80 years. This was considered among the most important unsolved problems in combinatorics, a prominent branch of math and computer science dealing with finite objects and arrangements. As opposed to previous A.I.-powered breakthroughs that involved back-and-forth conversations between a chatbot and a human expert, this was cracked with a single prompt.

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His fortunes reached new heights while his online behavior reached new lows. 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.

No one can say for sure what's going on in the president's head. His 25 greatest obsessions can get us a little closer. This is the year the first baby boomers--those born in 1946--turn 80, and that cohort includes Donald Trump. We have all recently lived through what it means to have an 80-year-old commander in chief, but at a political moment that's simultaneously more horrific, erratic, and just plain befuddling than anything this country has seen in ages, we wanted to understand the brain of 80-year-old president. Plenty of people are trying to discern whether his recent rants and raves are due to a more serious cognitive decline--we understand the instinct; we've done it too --but we went a different (if related) route. The more we dug into Trump's many fixations, the more we realized that this man still thinks he lives in the 1980s. We also discovered--without too much surprise--that he often seems to fundamentally misunderstand the works he treasures most deeply. These items might not replace a brain map, but they do create a certain holistic view of what animates and splinters Trump's mind. Sometimes, they just help explain his worldview. Other times, they seem to have had real influence on policy and the America that Trump is trying to create. Welcome to Trump Brain, the 25 things that define who the president is--and what he wants. Please enable javascript to fully experience this interactive. When millions of people took to the streets in October to protest Trump's authoritarianism, the president responded by dunking on his critics online. Specifically, he posted an A.I.-generated video of a fighter jet, piloted by himself in a literal crown, dropping human excrement onto the crowds. It was perhaps Trump's most juvenile use of A.I. slop yet--the kind of low-quality, feverish content made possible by artificial intelligence. Trump undoubtedly is the perfect president for the A.I. slop era. In some ways, this is because he's the ideal audience for it: Like many older internet users delighted by the technology, Trump seems to enjoy mindless, cartoonish, childish content. One of the videos he shared depicted him playing soccer with Cristiano Ronaldo in the Oval Office.

Unhinged I'm About to Go on a Date With a New Woman. I Know Something About Her--and She Doesn't Know I Know. I don't want to scare her away. I'm not sure what the proper etiquette is for acknowledging that you've recognized a mildly famous person when you match with them on a dating app. This is now the third time this has happened to me.

Users I Read the Pope's Encyclical on A.I. I'm Astounded By What He Wrote. It's an urgent warning--and a celebration of humanity and what we can do at our best. 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.

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