“Researchers believe that artificial intelligence may allow us to speak to other species.”
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Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art
“To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.”
On Brotherhood and Blindness
“In a hospital in the heart of the British empire, two young patients from worlds away strike up a friendship.”
Lost at Parkland: ‘Peter Was Always My Translator’
For one family, grieving the child they lost in the Parkland, Fla., school shooting is complicated by differences in language and culture.
The Poetry Fan Who Taught an LLM to Read and Write DNA
“By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s ‘ChatGPT for genomes’ could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating biological design.”
The Terms and Conditions of a Place Where I’ll Belong
“Navigating romance—with people or with places—is always fraught when you’re an outsider.”
I Rewatch “Gilmore Girls” to Remember my Stepfather
“I find echoes of the man who raised me every time I watch the iconic mother-daughter show.”
Field Notes from a Body
“As I watched I had felt a nameless churn in my gut, some tremor of feeling I couldn’t describe.”

