AI can be a heartless machine or a loving companion — a dichotomy you can now experience for yourself thanks to the latest developments in the field of artificial intelligence, spearheaded by xAI and exemplified in Ani and Valentine. The two sexually explicit chatbots can be accessed through the company’s SuperGrok subscription plan. A controversial … Read more
Some say that writing is thinking. And thinking begins with questions. So one of our main tasks, as writers, is to ask good questions. But how do you come up with them? You have two options: use ChatGPT or use your brain. Some help with the latter approach can be found in “The Elements of … Read more
“A moment ago, when you talked about the eternal present and the unreality of past and future, I found myself looking at that tree outside the window. I had looked at it a few times before, but this time it was different. The external perception had not changed much, except that the colors seemed brighter … Read more
Consider the choices you make every day: what food you order, how often you exercise, the way you organize your work. You might think that they’re the products of well-considered decision making, but they’re not. They’re habits. If you can change your habits, you can change your life. This is what Charles Duhigg explores in … Read more