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In chess, which for decades now has been dominated by A.I., a player’s only hope is pairing up with a bot. Such half-human, half-A.I. teams, known as centaurs, might still be able to beat the best humans and the best A.I. engines working alone. Programming has not yet gone the way of chess. But the centaurs have arrived. GPT-4 on its own is, for the moment, a worse programmer than I am. Ben is much worse. But Ben plus GPT-4 is a dangerous thing.
A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft
James Somers
Research hints that the energy-generating organelles of cells may play a surprisingly pivotal role in mediating anxiety and depression.
Mitochondria May Hold Keys to Anxiety and Mental Health | Quanta Magazine
quantamagazine.org
Vicki Boykis, “What Should You Think About When Using Facebook?,” February 1, 2017, Data, Tech, and Sometimes Nutella (blog), https://veekaybee.github.io/facebook-is-collecting-this/#how-facebook-collects-data.
Tending the Digital Commons
hedgehogreview.com
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