This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How refrigeration ruined fresh food Three-quarters of everything in the average American diet passes through the cold chain—the network of warehouses, shipping containers, trucks, display cases, and domestic fridges that keep meat, milk,…
Reaching a consensus in a democracy is difficult because people hold such different ideological, political, and social views. Perhaps an AI tool could help. Researchers from Google DeepMind trained a system of large language models (LLMs) to operate as a “caucus mediator,” generating summaries that outline a group’s areas of agreement on complex but important…
Artificial intelligence is a fully functioning member of our society. While it may make you feel like you’re more productive than ever, it can’t replace empathy.
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