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Human language may seem messy and inefficient compared to the ultra-compact strings of ones and zeros used by computers—but our brains actually prefer it that way. New research reveals that while ...

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In this vision, developers and knowledge workers effectively become middle managers of AI. That is, not writing the code or ...

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