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Feeding the machine: We give an AI some headlines and see what it does

Enlarge / Turning the lens on ourselves, as it were. There’s a moment in any foray into new technological territory that you realize you may have embarked on a Sisyphean task. Staring at the multitude of options available to take on the project, you research your options, read the documentation, and start to work—only to […]

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Is our machine learning? Ars takes a dip into artificial intelligence

Enlarge Every day, some little piece of logic constructed by very specific bits of artificial intelligence technology makes decisions that affect how you experience the world. It could be the ads that get served up to you on social media or shopping sites, or the facial recognition that unlocks your phone, or the directions you […]

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Rethinking corporate-issued hardware at a work-from-home Universe

Expand / / Pick your own firearms. (charge: Aurich Lawson / / Getty Images) With many businesses today with a substantial part of employees working remotely–and since you’re looking, this will be the longterm fact –the older version of how businesses encourage a”cellular” workforce isn’t just holding up nicely. I have already covered several of […]

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The Web is Filled with cats: Coping with the breakdown of This work/home Split

Expand / / Artist’s opinion of how small your kitty cares on your movie call. (charge: Aurich Lawson / / Getty Images) The Friday”beer-thirty” Zoom conventions started for me long to the lockdown. A co-worker educated them as a kind of stress release and socialization as all of us ready for that which we knew […]