‘Payback Is Forever’: Man vs. Writing Machine

‘Payback Is Forever’: Man vs. Writing Machine

When the pandemic started, I spent a lot of time playing around with a software platform called GPT-3, which generates text based on whatever you input into it; newspapers such as The Guardian have experimented with using GPT-3 to produce articles, for example. I...
Disaster, Rebirth, and the Cost of Heroes

Disaster, Rebirth, and the Cost of Heroes

The fishing village on Japan’s northeastern coast existed until a few minutes past 8 p.m. on June 15, 1896, when the people inside their wooden houses opened their eyes to darkness — and a rumbling noise drowned out the sound of dogs barking, the crackle of fires...