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The wrong way to study AI in college

2024-03-22 12:17 PM by Wanda Parisien

Computer-science students are being shielded from the liberal arts. That may be a problem. Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Max Whittaker / The New York Times / Redux March 22, 2024, 1:17 PM ET This is Atlantic Intelligence, a limited-run series in which our writers help you wrap your mind around artificial intelligence and a …

Nobody Knows What’s Happening Online Anymore

2023-12-18 10:21 AM by Tyler Fields

You are currently logged on to the largest version of the internet that has ever existed. By clicking and scrolling, you’re one of the 5 billion–plus people contributing to an unfathomable array of networked information—quintillions of bytes produced each day. The sprawl has become disorienting. Some of my peers in the media have written about …