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🔒 nytimes.com/2026/03/14/technology/ai-future.html
Technology
The Quiet Revolution That's Reshaping How We Think About Intelligence
By Sarah Chen · March 14, 2026 · 8 min read
For decades, researchers believed that artificial intelligence would arrive suddenly — a single breakthrough moment that would change everything overnight. What's happening instead is stranger and more interesting.
The systems emerging today don't think the way we do, yet they're reshaping industries, relationships, and the very nature of knowledge work in ways that feel simultaneously radical and mundane.
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