Technology

A.I. is really good at extracting text from images and audio, captioning photos, assigning structure to text like emails.

One way we did that was by leveraging something called “semantic search,” which lets reporters search for concepts and find matching text even if the exact language isn’t in the document.

This included tools to search photos visually, identify duplicate documents, sift through video and audio transcripts and compile research reports on new developments with key figures and topics.

A.I. enabled us to create specializing tooling to parse the Epstein files in just a couple of days that would normally take engineering teams weeks to build.

Those releases gave us a chance to stress test our existing tools and create a wish list of search gadgets and buttons.

In many cases, what we’re actually seeing in some online videos is an A.I. hallucination of what it assumes is under the redaction black box.

People are claiming to “undo” redactions using A.I. or other techniques.

Transportation officials could even block the system’s use if they determined that it posed risks to aviation safety.

Bart probably has a place on the Mount Rushmore of cartoon characters next to Mickey.

And Gyorgi Peluce’s colors.

When I would draw Bart, I would say, Oh, there are a lot of spikes on his head. But David actually counted them and made the rules of how many there should be.

I was startled by how popular the show was all over the world.

It is extremely popular in basically every English-speaking country, but it’s got probably even more intense devotion in Central and South America.

“I’m not going to be the guy that says it’s over,” he said.

I think of “The Simpsons” as a forum for different comedy styles.

Somebody wrote that the most memorable cartoon characters are the ones that you can identify in silhouette.

David Silverman, an original animator on “The Simpsons,” came up with rules for how the characters should look.

(There have been some additional Disney+ exclusive episodes.)

Thirty-nine years after a certain scraggily drawn cartoon family first appeared on television, as part of Fox’s “The Tracey Ullman Show,” “The Simpsons” is about to air its 800th episode on the network.

In an interview, the creator Matt Groening says there’s no end in sight.