/oss/taxonomy/term/2995/all en /oss/article/technology/i-chatted-artificial-intelligence-about-quackery <p>“Some people find relief from illness by using natural remedies such as herbal teas, essential oils, and warm compresses. These remedies are not proven to be effective for treating illness, but some people find them to be helpful.”</p> <p>I didn’t not paste the above text from a government website or copy it from a book. This is what an artificial intelligence (or AI) told me a few seconds ago when I asked about some natural ways to heal from illness.</p> Fri, 16 Dec 2022 11:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 9327 at /oss /oss/article/technology/e-readers-are-more-paper-you-think <p><span>Our days are dominated by screens: the morning news, ads on the metro, work documents at the office, the dozens of texts we send a day, and to top it off, a good TV show in the evening. But for a lot of people, novels are best enjoyed on paper. And that’s even after the invention of electronic book readers (e-readers like Kobo’s or Amazon’s Kindle), which can hold all the books in the world in a single lightweight device.</span></p> Tue, 13 Feb 2018 16:53:23 +0000 Cassandra Lee, OSS Intern 6921 at /oss