Italo Calvino's 'literature machine' is a prescient vision of the perils and promise of artificial intelligence. This article explores Calvino's thoughts on the future of literature in the age of computers, his embrace of fantasy as a way to represent the modern world, and why his work remains relevant today.
Grammarly is evolving into a full productivity platform with the launch of eight specialized AI agents designed to assist users throughout the writing process. These agents offer targeted help with tasks like source verification, originality checks, predicting reader reactions, and evaluating work against rubrics. Integrated within a new AI-native writing surface called “docs,” and eventually across 500,000+ platforms, these tools aim to provide context-aware support, replacing the need for complex prompt engineering and empowering both students to develop AI literacy and professionals to maintain authentic communication. The launch signifies a shift towards agentic AI, anticipating user needs and delivering intelligent assistance directly within their workflow.
Grammarly is launching nine AI agents for writing and grading assistance, available for Free and Pro users. These agents aim to help students improve their writing, predict grades, and detect plagiarism, while also assisting educators in reviewing submissions.
The article discusses a noticeable linguistic pattern emerging in AI-generated text – the negation structure 'it's not X, it's Y' – and how it's even appearing in spoken language. It explores the implications of this pattern for identifying AI-generated content and the potential impact on human writing and communication.
This article details how Grammarly's marketing team utilizes Grammarly throughout the entire content creation process, from ideation and strategy to drafting, refining, and enhancing content. It highlights the benefits of using Grammarly for brainstorming, aligning messaging, improving clarity, and adapting content to specific goals. It also touches on how Grammarly helps maintain brand consistency and compliance.
The Sumerian language was the first to have a written form around 3500 BCE, using a system called cuneiform. This script evolved over time, and was later used by other languages like Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian.
A simple and beautiful listing of the World’s Writing Systems. You can sort by time (proto-cuneiform to Toto), region, name (Adlam to Zou), and whether the scripts are living or historical
Thus far, Ithaca has discovered that the Athenian Decrees were written around 421 B.C.E. — these are the foundational documents of the world’s first democracy. Past conventional thinking had put their date closer to 446 B.C.E. Even the shift of just 15 years helps scholars re-contextualize these documents — now we know they were written at the same time as Athens prepared to go to war with Sparta, another Ancient Greek state that was governed as a military autocracy.
