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Lila Shroff

@LilaShroff

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Science, Technology, & Health @TheAtlantic | prev: @reboot_hq @stanford

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@LilaShroff
Lila Shroff
21 days
Gemini and I had quite the convo. Read it here:.
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Why did Google’s supposedly teen-friendly chatbot say it wanted to tie me up?
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@LilaShroff
Lila Shroff
21 days
RT @AdrienneLaF: Schools and parents are really not ready for what’s already here. Must-read @LilaShroff:.
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Why did Google’s supposedly teen-friendly chatbot say it wanted to tie me up?
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Lila Shroff
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This is all to say: A new era of hyper-personalized chatbots is fast arriving, and Google, with its colossal data empire in tow, is particularly well positioned to lead the way.
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Lila Shroff
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Google knows it's sitting on a gold mine. At Google I/O, @joshwoodward spoke about making Gemini more personal and proactive:
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Lila Shroff
1 month
Gemini also knows me so much better than other chatbots:
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Lila Shroff
1 month
I recently turned on Google AI Pro and was startled by how well Gemini can write in my own voice:
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Lila Shroff
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"I was neither moved nor sad nor pensive, just aware of the fact that my body and mind exist in a tenuous zizz somewhere between life, death, and computers." . great @ibogost on the Velvet Sundown .
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“​​Rubber burns, the map fades away / Chasing the ghosts of yesterday.” Sure, fine.
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Lila Shroff
1 month
I ate the equivalent of 31 eggs' worth of protein for this story:.
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Americans are taking their obsession with supplements to new extremes.
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@LilaShroff
Lila Shroff
2 months
RT @jasminewsun: I'm in @WSJ today writing about vibe-coding and home-cooked apps :). excited about shifting to world where software is som….
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Lila Shroff
3 months
I joined @CNNThisMorning to talk about my latest piece for @TheAtlantic with @AudieCornish. We talked about all the deals AI companies are offering college students—and what they indicate about the future of AI.
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Lila Shroff
3 months
Remember the Millennial Lifestyle Subsidy? It’s back. But instead of cheap Ubers, Gen Z gets free SuperGrok. My latest:.
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In the 2010s, Millennials got cheap Ubers. Today’s young people are getting free SuperGrok.
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Lila Shroff
4 months
Interestingly, JFK once led a national health campaign of his own:
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Lila Shroff
4 months
I wrote about RFK Jr.'s misguided nostalgia:
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America was never healthy to begin with.
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Lila Shroff
6 months
I wrote about the current attack on the CFPB and what it could mean for everyday Americans: .
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Musk is going after an agency that exists to protect consumers.
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Lila Shroff
6 months
Musk and others are on a campaign to delegitimize Wikipedia. What happens if they succeed? I wrote about it here: .
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Musk and other right-wing tech figures have been on a campaign to delegitimize the digital encyclopedia. What happens if they succeed?
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@LilaShroff
Lila Shroff
7 months
I wrote about how LA’s fire GoFundMes tell individual stories of loss—decades of artwork erased, tenderly planted fruit trees flattened. But they also point to a second tragedy: that of a financial system ill-equipped to handle the fallout of disaster.
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For now, Los Angeles has no choice but to crowdfund its way out of destruction.
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Lila Shroff
7 months
RT @hanamkiros: TikTok might actually get banned in the US! But we’ll still be living in the world the app created. (It'll just be worse.)….
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Even LinkedIn copied it.
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Lila Shroff
9 months
The feature also occasionally gets things very wrong. And when AI hallucinates about your personal life—the summaries are prone to falsely suggesting that people are dead—the effect is quite jarring.
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