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Findings

Photographs from the series Dogs Chasing My Car in the Desert, 1996–98, by John Divola, whose work was on view in May as part of the exhibition Hard Copy, at…

From “What Computers Can’t Do,” which appeared in the August 1965 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 174-year archive—is available online at harpers.org/archive. There is…

Metal Machine Music

by Laurent Dubreuil,

Can AI think creatively? Can we?

The Gods of Logic

by Benjamín Labatut,

Before and after artificial intelligence

Art and Artifice

by Donna Tartt,

From an introduction to the audiobook edition of J. F. Martel’s Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice, which was released in May by Hachette Audio. Toward the end of…

Findings

by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,

“Yellow Towels #2, 1979” and “Amy, Phil, and Brian, 1980,” photographs by Tina Barney, from her book Tina Barney: The Beginning, which was published last year by Radius Books ©…

Findings

by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,

Photograms by Shao-Feng Hsu, from the series Night Swimming, in which he captures his breathing patterns while swimming under the new moon © The artist Off the Five Finger Islands,…

The Pentagon’s Silicon Valley Problem

by Andrew Cockburn,

How Big Tech is losing the wars of the future

Computer Bits

From AI-generated explanations of New Yorker cartoons created for a study published in July 2023 in Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. The scene…