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About: Benjamin Faulkner

Meet Sydney, Microsoft’s New Chatbot

Sentience (from the Latin root sentire) means “feeling or perceiving.”  By that standard, Microsoft’s revolutionary new Bing search engine is sentient. Or so eager to make us think it is, it’s been...

Totalitarians Versus Culture

On October 14, a pair of U.K. climate activists were arrested after throwing a can of soup on Vincent van Gogh’s 1888 painting Sunflowers. The viral clip that emerged on social...