Humanity’s Last Stand

Irony may be on its last legs, but it’s not dead yet. This was a year in which tech news was dominated by stories about the ways artificial intelligence is quickly assuming tasks formerly carried out by humans. This seems to include many a homework assignment. If we’re to believe the trends, humanity’s last stand could also be humanties’ last stand. So maybe it’s hopeful that when internet users wanted to find out more about this new, life-changing technology, they went to the most human of all sites: Wikipedia. AP: Wikipedia, wrapped. Here are 2023’s most-viewed articles on the internet’s encyclopedia. “English Wikipedia raked in more than 84 billion views this year, according to numbers released Tuesday by the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit behind the free, publicly edited online encyclopedia. And the most popular article was about ChatGPT.” It could be worse. The second most read article was Deaths in 2023.

+ And Alan Taylor’s always moving collection of the Top 25 News Photos of 2023 in The Atlantic.