Matteo Wong
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Associate Editor for Science, Tech, and Health @theatlantic
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https://www.theatlantic.com/author/matteo-wong/ 01-08-2017 05:57:00
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We’re excited to announce Ali Breland joining The Atlantic to report on disinformation and extremism, and Julie Beck, Ellen Cushing, and Matteo Wong moving to staff writers. Read their work and more about these moves:
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Another AI gadget that’s selling an unrealized promise. It feels like we’ve entered an era of consumer investment in, like, Jobsian product-announcement events rather than functional hardware. Nice writeup of the Rabbit R1 by Caroline Mimbs Nyce theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
Elon Musk’s car business looks more fragile than ever—but a new Tesla, which provides electricity instead of vehicles, is emerging, writes Matteo Wong. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
Kernel, a new restaurant from the founder of Chipotle, wants to reinvent lunch using robots, writes Matteo Wong. Is that really a reinvention at all? theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
AI understands just a tiny fraction of the thousands of languages used worldwide. That means the promised chatbot revolution could shut out billions of people, and even push some languages to extinction, Matteo Wong writes: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
fascinating piece from Sarah Zhang on how some AI models might, after all, be able to learn in a way that is, maybe, analogous to a toddler!
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For a third consecutive year, The Atlantic has earned the top honor of General Excellence at the 2024 National Magazine Awards, recognizing a year of exceptional journalism and storytelling.
my pal David Sims and i started a baseball podcast!! and the mets instantly became... evil? haha! ok!
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Doctors want to talk to you about your gun now. My latest for The Atlantic, with a paywall-free link in the comments.
For The Atlantic, I wrote about what will be lost when nothing is ever lost in translation again theatlantic.com/technology/arc…