A TikTok video in July turned "quiet quitting" into the workplace phrase of the year. Gallup says at least half of the US workforce fits the description, and Microsoft finds leaders and employees...
A Google engineer says the company's LaMDA chatbot is sentient; Google and most researchers say it is not. The debate about machine consciousness is fascinating philosophy, but it distracts from...
Americans quit 47.8 million jobs in 2021, a record. New research from Pew and MIT Sloan Management Review suggests that pay matters, but disrespect, lack of growth and toxic culture matter more...
This autumn, leaked internal research showed that Facebook knew its ranking systems could amplify anger and that Instagram made body image worse for some teenage girls. In the same months, Oliver...
In 2021, large language models went from research curiosity to product. GPT-3 is available through an API, GitHub Copilot writes code, and Stanford has named the whole category "foundation...