Learning to live with Waymos(newyorker.com)
32 points by njrc | 84 comments
A New Yorker magazine feature by Molly Fischer on how people are adapting to living alongside Waymo driverless robotaxis, told from the back seat.
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The First Candid(newyorker.com)
49 points by Thevet | 12 comments
New Yorker Paris Postcard piece on Daguerre's 1838 Boulevard du Temple photo, the location sleuths identified, and the plaque Paris is placing there.
Back to School, in Gaza(newyorker.com)
8 points by hebelehubele | 2 comments
New Yorker essay by Mosab Abu Toha describing children in Gaza returning to school in tents amid bombed-out buildings, without chairs or desks.
ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons(niemanlab.org)
473 points by rdmuser | 350 comments
Nieman Lab article reporting that ChatGPT generates fake New Yorker-style cartoons bearing real cartoonists' signatures, falsely attributing AI images to artists.
Joseph Szabo’s pictures of American adolescents(newyorker.com)
72 points by prismatic | 45 comments
A New Yorker Photo Booth article by Margaret Talbot on Joseph Szabo's black-and-white photographs of American teenagers, which influenced Sofia Coppola.
Is A.I. Above the Law?(newyorker.com)
32 points by pseudolus | 19 comments
A New Yorker magazine article examining whether artificial intelligence systems and the companies building them escape legal accountability.
The Curious Power of Punctuation(newyorker.com)
39 points by pepys | 12 comments
A New Yorker critical essay by Louis Menand on the history of punctuation and how it shapes reading, including what changes when machines write sentences.
Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?(newyorker.com)
1871 points by adrianhon | 763 comments
New Yorker investigative feature by Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz examining doubts about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's trustworthiness, using interviews and documents.
The entire New Yorker archive is now digitized(newyorker.com)
464 points by thm | 64 comments
New Yorker press-room announcement that the magazine's entire historical archive has been fully digitized.
The Sagrada Família takes its final shape(newyorker.com)
349 points by pseudolus | 185 comments
A New Yorker magazine article on the Sagrada Família nearing completion and whether Gaudí's basilica is a masterpiece or kitsch.
We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness(newyorker.com)
474 points by defo10 | 952 comments
New Yorker magazine essay arguing that AI companions may soon ease loneliness and examining what people might lose if they do.
Is my toddler a stochastic parrot?(newyorker.com)
352 points by zwieback | 270 comments
A New Yorker illustrated sketchbook essay by Angie Wang comparing her toddler's language learning to large language models.
A coder considers the waning days of the craft(newyorker.com)
618 points by jsomers | 930 comments
A New Yorker personal essay by James Somers reflecting on how AI tools are changing programming and whether coding as a craft is ending.
Plastics are poisoning us(newyorker.com)
361 points by fortran77 | 416 comments
New Yorker article by Elizabeth Kolbert on how plastics release and attract toxic chemicals and spread everywhere, from human placentas to deep ocean trenches.