According to research, the rapid uptake of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini for writing prose and other tasks is nudging tens of millions of us towards sounding — and perhaps even thinking — alike. (Blakely, The Times)
Read MoreAmericans are driving less, skipping meals and putting off big life moves, like buying homes or having children, to keep up with health care costs, according to two Gallup polls released Thursday. (Wu, The Washington Post)
Read MoreSchools have been advised that children’s drawings could be considered blasphemous under Islamic law. Guidance issued to teachers by Labour councils in northern England warns that images made by pupils in art lessons may be seen as “idolatrous” under sharia. (Simpson, The Telegraph)
Read MoreSpoken by Scottish-born Alexander Graham Bell in his Boston laboratory on March 10 1876, they were the first intelligible words to be transmitted electrically through a wire from one place to another. With that, the telephone age began. (Morus, The Conversation)
Read MoreElementary schools and districts that ramped up their use of technology during the coronavirus pandemic have largely maintained those practices. Eighty-one percent of elementary teachers across the United States… said that at their schools, students receive devices in class by kindergarten. (Mader, The New York Times)
Read MoreWhat starts out as a seemingly harmless diversion quickly becomes a trap. I’ve had friends who have lost hundreds, lied to their families and pulled away from the team, all while chasing the rush of a winning bet that may never arrive. (Thompson, The Wall Street Journal)
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