HOW TRUE: Stories & Strategies of Nailing Stuff Down
Bill MitchellJournalists and other fact-finders share what it takes to get at the truth, including mistakes yielding their own lessons. Approaches and tips useful on the job and in everyday life.
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An antidote to AI’s flaws: Morgan McGinley
It all started with the Pope.
Writing a post about Pope Leo’s AI encyclical back in June, I used Google’s Gemini AI to fact check my draft.
There is no Pope Leo, Gemini told me. Pope Francis is still the pope.
Things went downhill from...
Here’s what I told Anthropic when they asked me what I want from AI
When I clicked on my Claude app last week, I was greeted with the invitation below.
I responded to questions from the interactive AI interviewer more out of curiosity than forethought, but I found it to be an interesting exercise.
If you...
60 years later: 37 showed up. At least 36 couldn’t.
As we made our way into New London’s Lighthouse Inn, classmate Harry White greeted us with a rollicking set of Beethoven and Buffy Sainte-Marie on the lobby piano.
Judy VanHove was ready with the name tags, enabling some furtive, mid-h...
What they asked me in the jury box: How I was paid as a teenage caddy. A mistake I made as an editor. Tensions in my family.
Like a lot of journalists, I’d never served on a jury.
Even though journalists have never been officially barred from serving, I’ve heard from many colleagues that they were excused as soon as they revealed their line of work during voir d...
AI goes to confession: I was wrong about the pope
After reading a host of other people’s takes on Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on artificial intelligence, I decided it was time to dig into the thing myself.
But not exactly by myself. I brought along a research assistant...
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