ChatGPT is bullshit — and here’s why

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Leaving the egg for the end

There are so many quirks associated with how we eat our food, what we do before, what we do after.

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar

Escape from ChatGPT: A cautionary tale

This first person account is the chilling story of the triumph of technology over fragile humanity.

Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

Editor’s Note: What should really worry us about AI

Many questions are going to haunt us as technology gets increasingly better at replacing our brain.

Privacy a casualty in race to develop generative AIs

After the flutter created by ChatGPT, many organisations are looking to collect data to train AIs.

Srinivas Kodali

ChatGPT for dummies: An explainer on what it is all about (and not)

This addresses all the doubts and apprehensions about the newest AI kid on the block.

ChatGPT — The Lede

ChatGPT: Disruption or fantasy?

If the objective is to establish an economy that works for everyone, AI seems to be a very unlikely tool of choice.

Eshwar Sundaresan

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A tapper’s tale

The all-but-forgotten story of Bengal’s golden nolen gur.

A shiuli atop a date palm tree.

Nolen gur: The all-but-forgotten story of Bengal’s date palm jaggery

This molten jaggery could soon be a thing of the past, with tappers now a dying breed.

An illustration from Edward Lear’s The Book of Nonsense—27th Edition (1889). The accompanying limerick goes: “There was a Young Lady whose bonnet/ Came untied when the birds sate upon it;/ But she said, ‘I don’t care! all the birds in the air/ Are welcome to sit on my bonnet!’”

A family of animal whisperers

My grandmother often thought of herself as a bird and talked to our pet cuckoo in his own language.

Anusua Mukherjee

Green spot: Flowering amaltas trees along Delhi roads.

Where did the mynas go?

Urbanisation and tourism have almost killed the pastoral, but it still endures.

You simply have to learn to run between all kinds of drops.

Running between raindrops

How to get where you want to by finding the safe and sweet spots through all manner of hazards.

Vishnu’s Game

Meet the last artist in the line of the family that has been making Dashavatar cards since the 16th century.

An aerial view of the British Library in London.

House of knowledge: The fascinating aura of the British Library

Celebrating 50 years in 2023, the British Library is brought to life by excellent staff.

Siddharth Pandey

Colours of desire

A mother’s sari collection feels like an act of vengeance against a life that had deprived her of small joys in her youth.

A man makes lassi on HC Sen Marg near Chandni Chowk, Old Delhi. He can pour lassi back and forth without looking

Salaam olden days: Walking down food memory lane

Food memories are flavoured nostalgia for some while plain dal-roti fare for others.

Colours of desire

A mother’s sari collection feels like an act of vengeance against a life deprived of small joys.