6 February 2025

Tag: World

World News

UNESCO Listing Sparks Chaotic Tourist Boom in Ancient Thai Town As Thailand celebrates a new World Heritage Site designation, locals and experts are concerned the area isn’t fit for a surge of visitors. By Koh Ewe September 28, 2023

The Khao Klang Nok monument in Si Thep, an ancient town 150 miles north of Bangkok, has survived more than a thousand years as kingdoms and empires rose and fell around it. But in just the week since the terraced temple and its surrounding area was named a World Heritage Site by the United Nations […]

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Technology

How We Chose the TIME100 Most Influential People in AI Our first-ever list of the most influential people in AI features leaders, policymakers, artists and entrepreneurs from around the world By Sam Jacobs September 7, 2023

What is unique about AI is also what is most feared and celebratedits ability to match some of our own skills, and then to go further, accomplishing what humans cannot. AIs capacity to model itself on human behavior has become its defining feature. Yet behind every advance in machine learning and large language models are, […]

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