I still remember the first time I talked with a chatbot and thought I was talking to a human. I only realized my mistake when the chatbot told me that it would have to bring in a human to solve the problem I was reporting. That was in 2019. Over the following years, this became…
Category: Politics
Algorithms and Polarization
Wether it was Ronald Reagan (Pruitt 2018) or Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band (Kirschbaum 2016) who ended the cold war, for those who were not around in the 1980s it is difficult to imagine the optimism that prevailed after the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, and the (mostly) peaceful…