It’s rare that a punctuation mark becomes grist for the online rumor mill. But recently, an uptick in focus on AI and its impacts has brought a Blake Lively-esque level of attention to the em dash, ...

AI's frequent use of em dashes is changing how people write. Many now avoid these punctuation marks to sound more human and ...

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OpenAI has not achieved its goal of developing a superintelligence or artificial general intelligence, nor has it cracked its planned construction of an autonomous “AI researcher.” But it has figured ...