Matteo Wong
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Staff writer for Science, Tech, and Health @theatlantic
Joined August 2017
To hear OpenAI tell it, its “reasoning” models will augur a new era of the AI revolution. Are they magic or a sleight of hand, and does it matter? I've spent months reporting on the new bots and the startup's entire approach to erecting superintelligence:.
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Something has shifted at OpenAI.
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RT @LilaShroff: 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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It's deeply concerning that one of the best AI researchers I've worked with, @kaicathyc, was denied a U.S. green card today. A Canadian who's lived and contributed here for 12 years now has to leave. We’re risking America’s AI leadership when we turn away talent like this.
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In reporting, I stumbled across a telling document. The president’s late uncle, John G. Trump, was an MIT physicist funded by NIH and NSF grants (millions of dollars today) that supported dozens of students. Now his nephew is dismantling this foundation of scientific progress:
Donald Trump is dismantling the foundations of American science—and in turn jeopardizing the AI boom he purports to champion, writes @matteo_wong:
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RT @TheAtlantic: .@vauhinivara’s new memoir, "Searches," critiques the internet in a novel way, turning its products into a kind of poetry.….
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Vauhini Vara’s new memoir critiques the web in a novel way, turning its products into a kind of poetry.
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RT @arcprize: The Rise of Fluid Intelligence. "@fchollet is on a quest to make AI a bit more human". A thorough article by @matteo_wong ex….
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RT @kait_tiffany: for the April issue of the magazine I wrote about the fantasy of women’s baseball and (yikes!) my weekend as a New York Y….
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Women have always loved America’s pastime. It has never loved them back.
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RT @shaneharris: Confusion. Paranoia. Hiding laptops in closets. This is what it looks like when DOGE comes to town. .
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Inside the federal agencies where Elon Musk’s people have seized control, fear and uncertainty reign.
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RT @nancywalecki: Charlie spent his life building what was essentially LA’s unofficial Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Eaton Fire took it a….
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Charlie Springer spent a lifetime building his music collection. The Los Angeles fires incinerated it.
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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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So incredibly proud of us.
WE HAVE A DEAL: We are thrilled to announce that we have a tentative, three-year deal with @TheAtlantic, pending ratification by our members. Here are just a few highlights of the deal…
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RT @Saahil_Desai: I wrote about a technology that promises to be wildly disruptive . the portable outdoor pizza oven. My latest, in @TheA….
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RT @TheAtlantic: To create a superintelligence, OpenAI believes it needs programs that can “reason”—and asserts that its new models can do….
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Something has shifted at OpenAI.
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RT @TheAtlantic: The government is trying to break up Google’s search monopoly—but those efforts might actually deal a bigger blow to the t….
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Tech giants such as Google and Meta need something more than compelling chatbots to win.
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RT @AdrienneLaF: Hey Hollywood writers! Use our search tool to find out which of your work has been used to train AI systems: https://t.co/….
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Use this search tool to see how writing from 139,000 movies and TV shows has trained generative AI.
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RT @TheAtlantic: Trump as an astronaut, as a dragon-riding soldier, as Superman: AI-generated images were everywhere this election cycle, a….
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But deepfakes and disinformation weren’t the main issues.
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RT @TheAtlantic: Almost immediately after Donald Trump’s victory, claims of voter fraud vanished from the right—and instead started up on t….
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Elon Musk didn’t “steal” the election.
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"Fixating on fraud disregards the material factors that brought the nation and its citizens to this choice, and detracts from the daunting work that must be done to recover," my latest for @TheAtlantic:.
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Elon Musk didn’t “steal” the election.
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Spent a week scrying into the future of search by using OpenAI’s new search tool, among others. That future is hyperefficient, weird, and disconcertingly soulless—the curiosity and magic of traditional search optimized away: .
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AI is transforming how billions navigate the web. A lot will be lost in the process.
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RT @sarahzhang: Some good news: . Can lupus actually be cured? I wrote about a therapy that is making doctors to wonder if autoimmune disea….
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