Josh Dzieza

Like millions of other people, the first thing Mark Humphries did with ChatGPT when it was released in late 2022 was ask it to perform parlor tricks, like writing poetry in the style of Bob Dylan — which, while very impressive, did not seem particularly useful to him, a historian studying the 18th-century fur trade. But Humphries, a 43-year-old professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada, had long been interested in applying artificial intelligence to his work. He was already usi…

How many humans does it take to make tech seem human? Millions.

From a series of tubes to the information superhighway.

Writers are using, debating, and worrying about rapidly improving AI tools.

$12 billion has been committed to rebuilding the electric grid, yet very little has been spent

Authors are getting a hand from machine learning tools — and some of them think it’s the future of writing.

Robbed, stabbed, beaten, underpaid, and overworked. They have had enough.

How the pandemic, delivery apps, and a new breed of restaurant caused a chicken wing explosion.

Instead of 13,000 employees, Foxconn aims to hire 1,454.

Viewers can watch on a live stream.

Why an organizing campaign in Alabama matters

A warehouse in Alabama could become the first to unionize in the US.

State taxpayers have spent as much if not more than Foxconn

Three years after its deal with Trump and the Wisconsin GOP, Foxconn’s factory — and the jobs it promised — don’t exist, and they probably never will.

The two-year charade that upended people’s lives

Said one worker at the facility: “It’s really crowded.”

On conference stages and at campaign rallies, tech executives and politicians warn of a looming automation crisis — one where workers are gradually, then all at once, replaced by intelligent machines. But their warnings mask the fact that an automation crisis has already arrived. The robots are here, they’re working in management, and they’re grinding workers into the ground. The robots are watching over hotel housekeepers, telling them which room to clean and tracking how quickly they do it.…

Foxconn won’t tell the state exactly what’s happening at the plant.

On any given day, thousands of packages from Walmarts, Targets, and stores around the country travel north along a two-lane road out of Billings, Montana — past the Tumbleweed Saloon, past cows grazing on empty rangeland, past the Busy Bee Cafe and stands of short pines — to the town of Roundup, where they will be unboxed, re-boxed, and sent off to Amazon. At first glance, Roundup does not appear to be a hub for much of anything. Founded by homesteaders and ranchers in the late 19th century, it…

Sellers are finding old AmazonBasics listings and using them to sell weighted blankets, knives, and clocks