"“has become a proxy in the battle for primacy between China and the U.S.,” says Kerry Brown, director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College London, and “whoever inches ahead in this form of technology gets benefits in terms of wealth, power, and influence.”"
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"Mme de Staël, a great talker and intellectual of the French ancien régime, called conversation “a means of reciprocally and rapidly giving one another pleasure; of speaking just as quickly as one thinks; of spontaneously enjoying one's self; of being applauded without working...[A] sort of electricity that causes sparks to fly, and that relieves some people of the burden of their excess vivacit..."
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#economist #special #Conversationalists #Cicero #SIRISAIAH #OxfordPhilosopher #RobertDarnton
"Why, oh why couldn’t we have gone to Little Bit O’ Magic Lounge (“Fun, food, and prestidigitation”), or the Pickle Barrel, a restaurant in which every table was given an all-you-can-eat barrel of pickles, and there was also magic and also (according to a comment on a blog post I just read) bartenders who could make balloon animals?This reverie was interrupted by Jan Rose sharing that, when she ..."
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#theatlantic #magic #Fenik #Kaitlyn #Lizzie #Ashley #Magician
"Open letters and noise The launch of the large language model (LLM) prompted nearly 34,000 technology experts—including Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak and Tesla’s Elon Musk—to sign an open letter calling for a pause to the development of giant artificial intelligence experiments."
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#chatgpt #Altman #ChatGPT #OpenAI #SamAltman #ElonMusk #Tesla’sElon
"In recent decades, large sums have been devoted to programs that moved through Congress due primarily to their current attractiveness for various powerful political constituencies rather than to serve broad and urgent national interests In recent decades such fiscal responsibility (although apparently desired by large numbers of Americans asked in various polls) has not been seen as a significa..."
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"‘Deliberate calm’ can help us adapt The U.S.-China trade war is counterproductive–and the Huawei P60’s chip is just one of its many unforeseen ramifications The opinions expressed in Fortune.com commentary pieces are solely the views of their authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions and beliefs of Fortune."
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#data #communities #floods #drought #tech #environment #lake
"Critics of peace talks point to Putin’s history of piecemeal territorial expansions made under the guise of protecting ethnic Russian minorities—whether it was the enclave of Abkhazia in Georgia back in 2008 or the invasion of Crimea in 2014 after pro-European forces came to power in Kyiv."
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#russia #economy #ukraine #Deripaska #OlegDeripaska #Putin #AluminumProducer
"On that back road in Vermont, the increase in foliage season traffic during the last several years has been spurred “by extraordinary tourism interest in private properties” and caused “significant safety, environmental, aesthetic, and quality of life issues,” the Select Board of Pomfret, a town of just over 900, wrote in a message to the community."
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"Foreign grammar is also difficult to the extent that it makes distinctions your language does not; for example, Arabic has a dual number (where verbs conjugate differently when the subject is two people or things), alongside singular and plural."
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"Douglass may have had this newspaper in hand when he wrote a letter to the military’s head recruiter, George Stearns, listing these incidents and announcing that he couldn’t continue encouraging men to fight: “Colored men have much overrated the enlightenment, justice and generosity of our rulers at Washington.”Unwilling to lose his prize recruiter, Stearns met with Douglass to assure him that ..."
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"Directed by Mariama Diallo (who also directed two episodes of The Other Black Girl), the film follows a white influencer obsessed with Black cultural signifiers who insists on getting “boxer braids”—and whose leeching presence starts changing the appearance of the salon's stylists.Though these genre works vary in tone and skillfulness, they’re all rooted in the same historical reality: For cent..."
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"Why Economists See Signs of ‘Soft Landing’ for US: QuickTake “We need to be alive to the possibility that these various union developments are going to represent a bit of a substantial change that will have impacts on the way the economy functions for quite some time to come,” Summers said, adding that he didn’t outright predict that outcome."
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"I floated along under the spell of enchantment, as if I had been transported to an heroic age, and breathed an atmosphere of chivalry.Soon after, I went to see a panorama of the Mississippi, and as I worked my way up the river in the light of today, and saw the steamboats wooding up, counted the rising cities, gazed on the fresh ruins of Nauvoo, beheld the Indians moving west across the stream,..."
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"They do not confine themselves to official entertaining but make a point of meeting and knowing and establishing friendly relations with people of all sorts, in every class of society, in every part of the country.When we look at the picture of Russian greed in swallowing one satellite nation after another and contrast it with the picture of American generosity in giving food, clothing, supplie..."
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"It was already contested, already controversial—and I wanted to remind the uniformed military that our oath is to the Constitution and that we have no role to play in politics.”He would remain a dervish until Inauguration Day: reassuring allies and cautioning adversaries; arguing against escalation with Iran; reminding the Joint Chiefs and the National Military Command Center to be aware of unu..."
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#theatlantic #Milley #Trump #President #Mattis #Kelly #Chairman
"The country does not make up-to-date detailed demographic figures openly available, but it has granted some researchers, of whom Dr Meng is one, access to a subset of the data."
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"Nathalie Scardino, global head of recruiting, onboarding, and employee learning, SalesforceCourtesy of Salesforce Salesforce Nathalie Scardino, global head of recruiting, onboarding, and employee learning How do you plan to upskill employees and secure talent for the future of A.I.?"
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#artificial #intelligence #training #competition #skills #AI #ChiefHuman
"In an April conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Xi stressed—apparently without irony—that “mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity is the political foundation” of relations between the two countries, but he did not pledge to ensure Ukraine’s or offer any specific proposal for preserving it, at least according to the official Chinese summary of their talk.F..."
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"For me, it’s a reason for everyone to come together in a more nuanced way: going beyond this dichotomy of “promise and peril” — which often comes up in the minds of those who have agency, who have the capability to do this — to a more nuanced understanding where access to opportunity, the empowerment dimension of it, beyond “the promise and the peril,” is also front and center."
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"The fact that the model behaved as expected this far in the future “reflects the robustness of the methods and science being used to deal with present-day climate change,” Shevliakova said.Nance, the Ohio University geologist, said that long-term predictions can also help fine-tune our forecasts for the next 50 to 100 years."
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