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Adam L. Penenberg

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Journalist, author, educator, floccinaucinihilipilificator. Director, American Journalism Online Master's program at NYU (@nyu_ajo): bit.ly/2W3JekU
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The Cambrian explosion has nothing on us

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By Adam L. Penenberg
| Brooklyn Daily Eagle Verified
In 1999, as part of a feature story for Forbes Magazine I was writing, I rode on the back of a red motor scooter, careening through Manhattan traffic with Joseph Park, the 27-year-old cofounder of Kozmo.com. Park was making a delivery himself — videos, snacks, books, magazines, the kind of small urban emergency that once required putting on pants — and explaining how his company would put Blockbuster out of business. “Amazon, too,” he said.
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The synthetic afterlife

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By Adam L. Penenberg
| Brooklyn Daily Eagle Verified
When a loved one died, that used to be it. They were gone. Now, they can live on through their data, uploaded to the cloud and repackaged as a subscription service. This new industry goes by several polite names: grief technology, memorial AI, synthetic presence.
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Bot, or not? Whose essay is this anyway?

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By Adam L. Penenberg
| Brooklyn Daily Eagle Verified
Since this is back-to-school time, you can bet that somewhere right now a professor is printing out an AI policy on the first page of a syllabus, underlining “prohibited” and trusting detection software to enforce the ban. But the software doesn’t work, at least not reliably. It never has. The detectors don’t know what AI wrote.
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