Around us at Zephyros, kids and silverware clamor and motorbikes cough, but Marinaâs voice is barely above a whisper. âWhen the hippopotamuses quarrel, then the frogs get stepped on,â she says of geopolitical conflicts, including the war in Ukraine. Sheâs sphinxlike, at times. Iâm starting to think she may have the rare quality that Fitzgeraldâs … Read more
TikTok has irreversibly bent our culture’s trajectory, but that doesn’t guarantee it’ll be around to reap the benefits. (India banned the app long ago, and it’s under growing scrutiny in a handful of other countries.) It has walked the political tightrope this far, but any bad PR could knock it off. Maybe that’s why TikTok’s … Read more
Once we get computers to match human-level intelligence, they won’t stop there. With deep knowledge, machine-level mathematical abilities, and better algorithms, they’ll create superintelligence, right? Yeah, there’s no question that machines will eventually be smarter than humans. We don’t know how long it’s going to take—it could be years, it could be centuries. At that … Read more
