The New York Times, July 23: A.I. Can Write Poetry, but It Struggles With Math
The New York Times, July 25: A.I. Is Getting Good at Math
How It Started, How It’s Going
“When the new Bing works, it’s not just a better search engine. It’s an entirely new way of interacting with information on the internet, one whose full implications I’m still trying to wrap my head around.”
— Kevin Roose, The New York Times, 8 February 2023
“I’m still fascinated and impressed by the new Bing, and the artificial intelligence technology (created by OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT) that powers it. But I’m also deeply unsettled, even frightened, by this A.I.’s emergent abilities.”
— Kevin Roose, The New York Times, 16 February 2023
The front page on Sunday, 24 May 2020. The list of 1,000 names — about 1 percent of those who had died of the coronavirus in the U.S. at the time it was published — continued inside.
The online presentation is also striking.
‘Subverting America’
“What would constitute tyranny in the United States? It would involve reducing Congress to a peripheral role in making Government policy, discrediting the political opposition, suppressing the more aggressive forms of dissent, intimidating television, radio and the press, staffing the courts with one’s own supporters, and centralizing all of the executive power in the hands of the President and his totally dependent aides.”
— New York Times editorial, 17 June 1973
‘You May Want to Marry My Husband’
“. . . I’m facing a deadline, in this case, a pressing one. I need to say this (and say it right) while I have a) your attention, and b) a pulse.”
— Amy Krouse Rosenthal, The New York Times, 3 March 2017
A full-page ad in Sunday’s print editions.
“Nothing in God’s creation is ever as good as it once was, but The Washington Post is coming pretty close.”
— David Carr, The New York Times, 6 Oct. 2014
‘The Draw of the New City-States’
“London and New York, with roughly the same populations, have become booming city-states that reflect 21st-century openness and fluidity, but also the skewed economics and growing inequalities of a world where finance has outflanked the law and the global rich find ways to game a system that holds the majority in its grip.
“In London during these boom times, the disparities can feel obscene. Still, London does the public sphere, like bike schemes, road surfaces and the subway, much better than New York. It is a European city, after all. But it sits in a middling nation well past its zenith. New York does power, directness and steak a lot better than London. It races and churns. London carries on.”
— Roger Cohen, The New York Times, 15 Aug. 2014
Some News
I’ll be moving to London later this year as The Times expands its editing and production efforts overseas. Same home page, new time zone. More importantly, it puts me, the Gray Lady and the other lady in my life in the same place at the same time.