Tag: AI

Content warning: The following article discusses suicide. When news broke about 16-year-old Adam Raine, I found myself rereading the details with growing disbelief. Raine's parents said an...

My mother, who attended a small liberal arts college, used to tease my dad about his engineering degree. "You received training," she’d say, “but...

I was leaving a jazz bar in San Francisco on a cold and rainy night. My family and I called a Waymo to pick...

Ahead of science fiction author Ted Chiang’s talk on generative AI and art, Black Studies professor Yumi Pak hosted a screening of “Arrival”, the...

Award-winning science fiction author Ted Chiang gave a talk on generative AI and art to Occidental students, faculty and community members Sept. 23. In anticipation of...

Since their inception in 2022, ChatGPT and other large language models have taken the world by storm. Using algorithms trained on text-based databases, artificial...

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping how we perceive intellectual labor, shifting the focus from process to product, and from effort to optimization. The...

When I was little, everyone asked me, “What do you want to be when you grow up?" My answers varied throughout the years — from...

Occidental chemistry professor Chris Craney still has the slide rule he used as an undergraduate, long after calculators replaced it in the classroom. Craney said he spent a...