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16 articles How It Works
One is a construction project with a fixed budget and an end date; the other is a utility bill that arrives…
Aug 24, 2026 · 4 min read
In The World
Long before anyone typed a question into a chat box, trained models were deciding the order of feeds…
Aug 15, 2026 · 4 min read
In The World
Automated screening in hiring, credit and public services learns from a record of what was decided before…
Aug 11, 2026 · 4 min read
Jargon
Turning words, images or documents into lists of numbers sounds like a technicality, and it is the step…
Jul 1, 2026 · 3 min read
In The World
Releasing a file of trained numbers is a real and consequential act of openness, but it withholds most of…
Jun 9, 2026 · 3 min read
In The World
The most solid results from machine learning have come in fields with a rigorous way of confirming a…
Jun 1, 2026 · 3 min read
In The World
The asymmetry between making synthetic media and verifying real media is structural, and it is reshaping…
May 29, 2026 · 3 min read
History
A conversational program written in the 1960s worked by reflecting sentences back with almost no analysis…
May 3, 2026 · 3 min read
Jargon
One measures how long a single person waits, the other how much work a system gets through, and almost…
Apr 20, 2026 · 3 min read
How It Works
Prediction over time developed its own methods and its own way of validating them decades before machine…
Mar 22, 2026 · 4 min read
In The World
Medicine, aviation, finance and public administration each built approval processes around tools that do…
Mar 1, 2026 · 3 min read
How It Works
Manufactured training material solves problems that collecting more real material cannot, and it carries a…
Dec 18, 2025 · 4 min read
How It Works
Search begins with a stated intent and recommendation begins with none, and that single difference produces…
Dec 12, 2025 · 4 min read
In The World
The permission attached to a collection of training material is a specific legal instrument that is…
Nov 19, 2025 · 3 min read
History
An unusually open research culture built the technology, and the retreat from that culture is recent…
Oct 30, 2025 · 3 min read
History
Concern about harm from these systems developed along separate tracks with different questions, different…
Oct 24, 2025 · 3 min read
