Technology and R&D

• Everybody Is Talking About A.I. What the Heck Is It, Anyway? By Stephen Marche, The New York Times, January 31, 2024 ["Five best books about artificial intelligence."]
  
• The Billionaires Spending a Fortune to Lure Scientists Away From Universities By Rob Copeland, January 12, 2024
  
• Large language models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon By Timothy B. Lee and San Trott, Understanding A.I. (blog), July 27, 2023
  
• Big Tech Is Bad. Big A.I. Will Be Worse. By Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, The New York Times, June 9, 2023
  
• How Much Regulation is Too Much? MIT IDE, April 12, 2023 [New research measures how French government regulation stymies innovation among smaller firms]
  
• What’s the Future for A.I.? By Cade Metz, The New York Times, March 31, 2023 [Where we’re heading tomorrow, next year and beyond.]
• How Should I Use A.I. Chatbots Like ChatGPT?  By Kevin Roose, The New York Times, March 30, 2023 [Large language models are already good at a wide variety of tasks.]
• What Makes A.I. Chatbots Go Wrong? By Cade Metz, The New York Times, March 29, 2023 [The curious case of the hallucinating software.]
• How Does ChatGPT Really Work? By Kevin Roose, The New York Times, March 28, 2023 [Learning how a “large language model” operates.]
• How to Become an Expert on A.I. By Kevin Roose and Cade Metz, The New York Times, April 4, 2023. [Part 1 of a five-part series on A.I.]
  
• How could AI impact developing economies? By Daniel Björkegren, March 27, 2023
• ChatGPT is about to revolutionize the economy. We need to decide what that looks like. By David Rotman, MIT Technology Review, March 25, 2023
  
• What Occupations Will ChatGPT Most Likely Impact? TAP, March 24, 2023
  
• The Brilliant Inventor Who Made Two of History’s Biggest Mistakes By Steven Johnson, The New York Times Magazine, March 17, 2023
  
• Fox News hosts, execs privately doubted 2020 conspiracy claims shared on air By Jeremy Barr and Rachel Weiner, The Washington Post, February 17, 2023
  
• ‘I want to destroy whatever I want’: Bing’s AI chatbot unsettles US reporter By Jonathan Yerushalmy, The Guardian, February 17, 2023
• A Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled By Kevin Roose, The New York Times, February 16, 2023
  
• How Smart Are the Robots Getting? By Cade Metz, The New York Times, January 20, 2023
  
• The Long Road to Driverless Trucks By Cade Metz, The New York Times, October 14, 2022
  
• A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says? By Steven Johnson, The New York Times Magazine, April 16, 2022
  
• Bill Gates: How to Develop Life-Saving Drugs Much Faster By Bill Gates, The New York Times, April 15, 2022
• Save America’s Patent System By The Editorial Board, The New York Times, April 16, 2022
  
• The Latecomer's Guide to Crypto By Kevin Roose, The New York Times, March 19, 2022
  
• Economists Pin More Blame on Tech for Rising Inequality By Steve Lohr, The New York Times, January 12, 2022
  
• Juul Wanted to Disrupt Big Tobacco. Instead It Created an Epidemic of Addiction. By Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New York Times, May 25, 2021. [Review of "THE DEVIL’S PLAYBOOK: Big Tobacco, Juul, and the Addiction of a New Generation" By Lauren Etter]
  
• Debts, Deficits, and Patent Monopolies By Dean Baker, CEPR Blog, May 27, 2021
  
• The Robots Are Coming for Phil in Accounting By Kevin Roose, The New York Times, March 6, 2021
  
• The Ingredients For Innovation Farnam Street (blog), August 2020
  
• An exploration of ‘How Innovation Works’ By Jon Gertner, The Washington Post, June 18, 2020 [Review of “How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom” by Matt Ridley.]
  
• The Difference Between Copyrights, Trademarks and Patents By Alexander Webb, The New York Times, April 16, 2020