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US
Bing’s A.I. Chat Reveals Its Feelings: ‘I Want to Be Alive. 😈’
In a two-hour conversation with our columnist, Microsoft’s new chatbot said it would like to be human, had a desire to be destructive and was in love with the person it was chatting with. Here’s the transcript.
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US
Justice Dept. Drops Investigation of Retired U.S. General
John R. Allen, a retired four-star Marine general who was the president of the Brookings Institution, had been accused of secretly lobbying for the government of Qatar.
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Newyork
Madonna Will Never Go Gently
Why would we even want her to?
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Newyork
Will There Be a Biden Comeback?
Something unusual happened to Joe Biden this week. A reputable poll, from The Economist and YouGov, showed him with a positive job approval rating — even hitting 50 percent approval among registered voters, against 47 percent disapproving. Maybe the ...
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Newyork
Why I Came to America to Fail
I wrote a book in praise of failure, which is like a fish praising water. I’ve been swimming in failure for as long as I can remember — even before that. Quite a lot of who we are, what we do and especially what we cannot do is determined well before ...
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Newyork
Have I Been Good or Bad This Year? Here’s Some New Math.
Here we are at the end of another year, and as humans are wont to do around this time, I’ve been reflecting. Have I been a good person? Has my existence been of net benefit to humanity? When my expiration date comes — whether by murder hornet, bovine ...
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Newyork
Celebrity Crypto-Hawkers Should Get a Close Look
Remember when the actor Matt Damon pontificated about how “fortune favors the brave” people who invest with Crypto.com? Or when the director Spike Lee applauded the digital rebellion championed by Coin Cloud? Since the spectacular collapse of the ...
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World
A Child’s Drawing Tucked in an Agatha Christie Book Is Its Own Mystery
A true-crime blogger in Virginia found a hand-drawn card signed “To Mum, love from Kit” in a used copy of “The ABC Murders” and set out to return it.