¿Qué dicen los chatbots cuando se les pregunta por España? Dicen, claro, muchas cosas. Pero algunas las dicen más veces. La IA no da una imagen equilibrada de España, sino que ofrece un mapa lleno de jerarquías. Hay cuatro comunidades autónomas que son España por encima de todo, por este orden: Cataluña, Madrid, Andalucía y País Vasco. En otras preguntas también tienen cierto peso la Comunidad Valenciana y Galicia. A partir de ahí, otras regiones aparecen menos o lo hacen por una puerta estrecha, con tópicos que sirven casi como su único motivo: turismo, vino, huerta, agua, despoblación, el Camino de Santiago, minería, paisaje verde, dehesa o España vaciada.

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Aram Harrow has spent 25 of his 46 years working in quantum computing. He is a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is best known for co-developing the HHL algorithm in 2008, considered one of the first demonstrations of an exponential advantage of quantum computers over classical ones. This June marks the end of the year he has spent at Spain’s Institute of Mathematical Sciences (ICMAT) in Madrid, where he speaks with EL PAÍS.

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“The rise of AI is the next industrial revolution,” Gloria Caulfield, a real estate executive, told recent graduates of arts, humanities, and communication at the University of Central Florida. The response? A chorus of boos. Caulfield turned to the organizers: “What happened?” she asked. She looked back at the young people in the audience: “Ok, I’ve struck a chord, may I finish?” And she continued: “Only a few years ago, AI wasn’t a factor in our lives,” she added. And then they applauded, and Caulfield smiled with relief. The video of her bewilderment went viral.

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In 2021, Miriam González, a 35-year-old from Murcia, Spain, went to the doctor because she was bleeding from her breast. She was told to relax: everything was normal. But in 2024, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. And, shortly afterward, she discovered it was metastatic, at stage four.

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