You can talk to the chatbot like it's a friendly acquaintance, and it'll help you get a lot done. Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and ...

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This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Chungin “Roy” Lee stepped onto Columbia University’s campus this past fall ...

If you have a friend, child or co-worker who won’t shut up about ChatGPT or some other generative-AI chatbot, but you’ve been too embarrassed to ask where to start, this is for you. The buzzy, ...

In many circumstances, artificial intelligence (AI) can be a tremendously poor teacher—immediately giving away answers and hindering students’ abilities to think for themselves. But two 2024 studies ...