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In this notion of distributed intelligence, there is something both democratizing and destabilizing—a sneaky but egalitarian mode of murdering the author. Tenen insists, though, that we shouldn’t agonize too much over the source of intelligence. Who cares if our thinking is closer to the synthesis of LLMs, rather than the divinely ordained originality held dear […]

An aerial view of the structure, which resembles a wonky, incomplete bow tie. Jérôme Berthet / INRAP A newly discovered structure in France could be thousands of years old—and its odd shape is one of a kind, archaeologists say. Researchers from the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP) unearthed the monument while excavating

If you see someone burst from the doors of a theater, spin around three times, spit over their left shoulder, and shout out a Shakespearean phrase or curse word, it’s likely they just uttered “Macbeth” inside the building and are trying to keep a very famous curse at bay. As the story goes, saying “Macbeth”

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. On August 23, 2000, after an extensive search and a months-long rumble of media speculation, a press conference was held in London. There, the actor who’d been chosen to play Harry Potter in the first movie adaptation of

Credit: Wuhuiru55 Beloved art, in how many gray hours Where life’s wild circle entangles me, You have kindled my heart with warm love; You transported me to a better world. Franz Schubert’s sublime lied “An die Musik,” to Franz von Schober’s poem, says it all. Music clearly has great power, but is it perhaps measurable

In the “long view” of music history, Giacomo Puccini is often thought of as a throwback to the 19th century. Like Rachmaninov’s, his works are often considered too conventional, too tuneful, too accessible to qualify as bona fide 20th-century music. Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) © Public domain (c.1907) During Puccini’s lifetime, his forward-looking younger contemporaries Casella,