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YouTuber builds 7 times larger Arduino tortoise bot that still navigates autonomously

Instead of sticking with the typical tabletop-scale builds, Arduino hobbyist and YouTuber UncleStem chose ...
cursus.edu

Rediscovering the joy of writing in a machine age

Artificial intelligence is daunting in its capabilities. In just a few minutes, it can create text, images and even videos that would normally take a human hours to produce. As a result, schools are ...
The Hour

Thousands of AI-written, edited or ‘polished’ books are being sold – an eerie echo of Orwell’s ‘novel-writing machines’

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Laura Beers, American University (THE CONVERSATION) At some point in the next several ...
Wired

The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages. USA Today Co., the publishing ...
The Boston Globe

Colleges ban generative AI in writing classes. My classmates use it anyway.

Looking for workarounds in required writing courses is nothing new for college students. Those trying to avoid writing essays and reports could always buy them. It was expensive and risky: Would the ...
The Conversation

A New York Times critic used AI to write his review – but criticism is deeply human

An author and freelance journalist has admitted to using AI to help him write a book review for the New York Times. The Times promptly dropped Preston, calling his “reliance on A.I. and his use of ...
Psychology Today

Don't Let AI Write the Story of Your Life

This morning, I stumbled on an email I'd fired off to a friend on one of those days when everything was on fire. It was raw and clumsy, full of half-formed thoughts and feelings too intense to clearly ...
Inside Higher Ed

Writing Faculty Push for the Right to Refuse AI

The world’s largest professional organization of writing educators disagrees with the notion that the rise of generative artificial intelligence in the classroom is unavoidable. Earlier this month, ...