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All or Nothing: The Head of ChatGPT Is About to Pop the AI Bubble
The original (Spanish) version of this article can be found here.
Sep 8
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Maria Alvarez
Data Centers or Houses: Will AI End the Housing Market?
Wherever you look, the story is the same: coinciding with the explosion of AI, housing prices have fallen in almost every major metropolis.
Sep 8
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Maria Alvarez
Not That Way! Searching for Superintelligence in the Wrong Place
A superintelligence has been born. It has neither a body like humans nor a language we can yet understand. And yet, it is far more alive than any…
Sep 8
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Maria Alvarez
July 2025
The Curse of 140 Characters
The reason why millions of people turn to social media has nothing to do with a technical — or worse, moral — inability to build spacecraft, but with a…
Jul 21
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Maria Alvarez
What Autism Explains About Artificial Intelligence
The original (Spanish) version of this article can be found here.
Jul 11
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Maria Alvarez
Calories, Capital, and Other Things That Don’t Exist
If we’re running around like headless chickens and don’t understand what has happened to the world over the past 50 years, it’s because the model we use…
Jul 8
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Maria Alvarez
After the Artificial Intelligence Bubble: What It Is, What It Isn’t, and What It Might Be Good For
What, really, is generative AI, and what is it for? What can we expect to happen to this technology once the hype fully dies down? Will it transform our…
Jul 3
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Maria Alvarez
Imaginary Wealth
We live as if the world had never stopped growing, clinging to the idea that housing and savings should keep appreciating beyond what is real. Until the…
Jul 1
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Maria Alvarez
The Heist of the Century
The big tech platforms have taken something far more important than our data. It’s time to get it back.
Jul 1
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Maria Alvarez
Getting Paid to Talk. A Manifesto
We have come to assume that it is normal for knowledge workers not to get paid. Normal that there aren’t many of them.
Jul 1
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Maria Alvarez
Why Doesn’t Work Just End (Already)?
How is it possible that we are, at the same time, terrified of losing our jobs and fed up with working?
Jul 1
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Maria Alvarez
Donald Trump and the Wars of the Little Scandal
The board on which we build public debate has changed, but we have yet to fully understand it.
Jul 1
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Maria Alvarez
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