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What would make AI truly social?
In the mid-1970s, Americans hosted or attended an average of 7.1 dinner parties a year.
Explains why in Mad Men, people were always glammed up over glasses of wine.
By the late 1990s, dinner party attendance nearly halved, according to s...
What will we use our minds for?
AI, mental gyms, and the most important choice we face
In 1867, a young journalist named Henry Morton Stanley met a man whose body he couldn't help describing: “broad shoulders, well-formed chest and limbs, and a face strikingly handsome.”
What will make personal AI go big?
Four design principles behind Muse’s appeal
Muse launched earlier this month, and it’s the first consumer agent I've used that makes me think people might actually change their habits for it.
AI for No Good Reason
The most creative ways people have used AI for leisure
Out of all the lives that have been lived throughout history, if you drew one at random, who would you be?
How to Stop Complaining About Your Software
Welcome to the era of digital hyperpersonalization
i. In 1975, Andy Warhol made the observation that “a Coke is a Coke, and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking.”
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