The human brain is the most complex and powerful computer in the world - and, as far as we know, the universe. Today’s most sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are only just ...

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Hallucinations of language models are not an engineering problem: they stem from mathematical limits proven since the 1930s.

Unless you, dear reader, are a web-scraping software bot quietly pulling this text into a data-hungry LLM, you’re probably a human. And though you’ve likely never seen me in person, you have good ...

Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Sources: 3drenderings / Getty; shorrocks / Getty. This rampant, unauthorized AI use degrades the educational experience of individual students who overly rely ...