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Siri Hates
Her
, and Other News
By
Dan Piepenbring
January 7, 2014
On the Shelf
HAL 9000—still the standard-bearer for baneful artificial intelligences.
Eschewing received wisdom and millions of high school syllabi, one writer dares to contend that
Charlotte Brontë’s
Villette
trumps
Jane Eyre
.
Spike Jonze wrote the screenplay for
Her
, which features a honey-tongued operating system named Samantha, well before Siri came into this world—but surely you can see the connection.
Siri can’t
. Ask her about
Her
and you’ll get some guff: “I think she gives artificial intelligence a bad name.”
As the
New York Times
prepares to debut its new home page,
this helpful gif shows how the site has evolved since 2001
. (“The
New York Times
on the Web,” it said then—as if to congratulate itself for having arrived.)
Fan art for
The Catcher in the Rye
. Highest honors go to that left-handed fielder’s mitt.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s
The Little Prince
becomes an art exhibit
.
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