EditorialJulia Gladstone, one of 17 artists participating in Lotto Royale, rehearses a conversational performance outside The Seaport Garden Bar in the Lower Manhattan borough of New York, June 5, 2023. (Evelyn Freja/The New York Times)
EditorialA student uses Khanmigo, a new tutoring bot, for help with a math problem at Khan Lab School in Palo Alto, Calif., May 22, 2023. (Ulysses Ortega/The New York Times)
EditorialFrankie Light, a polyglot who posts on YouTube, in the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan, March 30, 2022. He studies various languages and practices them on the streets of New York, enlisting strangers as impromptu conversational partners. (Justin J Wee/The New York Times)