Tag results for: books
What to read this weekend: An alien invasion as told by a body snatcher
Usually when aliens invade and start doing the whole body snatching thing, they don't go around telling everyone about it. Anastasia, aka Stasia, Miller seems to have missed...
The Time Sam Altman Asked for a Countersurveillance Audit of OpenAI
Dario Amodei’s AI safety contingent was growing disquieted with some of Sam Altman’s behaviors. Shortly after OpenAI’s Microsoft deal was inked in 2019, several of them were stunned...
What to read this weekend: A brief history of humankind’s many apocalypses
Humans have endured a lot over the course of our existence, undoubtedly much more than can fully be explored in the confines of a 300ish page book, but...
An Acclaimed Book About Digital Manipulation Was Actually Written by AI
“When readers discovered the truth about how the book was created, many were hurt. I deeply regret that, but it was necessary,” he says.“Some people have said, ‘I...
A Book App Used AI to ‘Roast’ Its Users. It Went Anti-Woke Instead
Fable, a popular social media app that describes itself as a haven for “bookworms and bingewatchers,” created an AI-powered end-of-year summary feature recapping what books users read in...
What to read this weekend: Family dysfunction at the end of the world, and the woman who challenged Victorian medicine
I have to admit I haven’t read all that much Shakespeare, so when I hear that a current work of fiction is a retelling of one of his...
