Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead(davidoks.blog)

194 points by powera 6 months ago | 179 comments

Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans'(bbc.co.uk)

25 points by ljf 1 month ago | 39 comments

ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did(davidoks.blog)

502 points by colinprince 7 months ago | 527 comments

Substack essay by David Oks arguing that ATMs did not eliminate bank teller jobs but smartphone mobile banking did, exploring how automation replaces labor.

AI is killing the web – can anything save it?(economist.com)

281 points by edward 1 year ago | 336 comments

GoPro warned it may not survive(thenextweb.com)

46 points by mmh0000 4 months ago | 38 comments

We're Missing a Key Reason Why Americans Hate AI(derekthompson.org)

11 points by abe94 24 days ago | 8 comments

A paid Substack essay by Derek Thompson arguing the AI buildout has raised costs rather than delivering cheap abundance, fueling American hostility to AI.

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain(davidepiffer.com)

524 points by rzk 2 months ago | 452 comments

A Substack essay by Davide Piffer arguing that AI's edge over mathematicians comes from a vast symbolic working memory rather than superior reasoning.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else(washingtonpost.com)

359 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 8 months ago | 596 comments

Washington Post article on how the roughly $700 billion AI spending boom is causing shortages of electricians, components, and pricier smartphones elsewhere in the economy.

The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering(philschmid.de)

832 points by robotswantdata 1 year ago | 467 comments

Blog post by Philipp Schmid arguing that context engineering, supplying LLMs with the right information and tools, matters more than prompting for AI agents.

MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline(publichealthpolicyjournal.com)

438 points by cainxinth 1 year ago | 432 comments

Article reporting on an MIT study claiming that using AI tools like ChatGPT alters brain activity and leads to cognitive decline.

We're Missing a Key Reason Why Americans Hate AI(derekthompson.org)

11 points by abe94 24 days ago | 8 comments

A paid Substack essay by Derek Thompson arguing the AI buildout has raised costs rather than delivering cheap abundance, fueling American hostility to AI.