In a certain, strange way, generative AI peaked with OpenAI’s GPT-2 seven years ago. Little known to anyone outside of tech circles, GPT-2 excelled at producing unexpected answers. It was creative.

We are drowning in a sea of abysmal, artificially generated prose. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. It’s seeping into inboxes, infecting publications and ruining the internet (again). A favorite ...

We want to hear from high school teachers and college professors who assign writing. By Dana Goldstein For decades, American students have struggled to produce one dominant form of academic writing: a ...

Poetry and artificial intelligence can appear as opposites—one deeply human; the other cold and mechanical. Sasha Stiles sees them as expressions of the same impulse. Poetry, the Kalmyk- American poet ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. ChatGPT and food-delivery droids came to my campus at roughly the ...

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Before her death, Catherine O'Hara revealed that she had a rare medical condition. The beloved Schitt's Creek star died Friday at age 71 "following a brief illness," according to her representatives.

As time goes by, it seems like there is less and less of a need to write things down by hand. Letters are no longer necessary when you can easily text or email someone. Things you need to remember can ...

Over the past year, we have been working closely with colleagues here at Boston College to develop a psychologically rich, humanities-informed Creative Writing Master’s Program oriented toward ...

If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice. Credit...Illustration by Giacomo Gambineri Supported by By Sam Kriss In the quiet hum of our digital ...

From the outside, autism can be difficult to understand. The unique sensory world of an autistic person can mean that a joyful event—like a Christmas party—can become nightmare of noise, lights, ...

Andy Weir, a computer programmer turned novelist, packs his books with real science. He brought that attention to detail to Ridley Scott’s adaptation of The Martian as the film’s science expert, and ...