
AI Companions: Designed to Connect
In the midst of a loneliness epidemic, AI companions are on the rise. Will they be friends or foes?
In the midst of a loneliness epidemic, AI companions are on the rise. Will they be friends or foes?
Mixed-media artist and computer scientist Ivona Tau trains her A.I. models with analog photographs, turning generative adversarial networks into
From Leonardo da Vinci’s detailed anatomical drawings to Salvador Dali’s surreal explorations of physics. Artists have often been
Elizabeth Barlow draws inspiration from the natural world, creating hyperrealistic flower paintings that remind us to pause and pay attention
Emilia Javorsky, Director of the Futures Program at the Future of Life Institute (FLI), breaks down the dimensions of power concentration and explains how it could impact all our lives.
Imagine logging into your social media account, and instead of ads flooding your feed, you'd see the actual posts of the actual people you follow in chronological order
“Are you sure you are really interested in the preservation of the human race, once you and all the people you know are no longer living?” asked Swiss writer and architect Max Frisch in his Diary 1966–1971. The founders of the Long Now Foundation would answer with a resounding “Yes”.