Thursday, July 27, 2023

27: Palestine



Progressives’ embrace of Disney in battle with DeSantis over LGBTQ rights comes with risks
Just about anybody in America can officiate a wedding, thanks to the internet – and one determined preacher
Federal government is challenging Texas’s buoys in the Rio Grande – here’s why these kinds of border blockades wind up complicating immigration enforcement
Israel: unpopular judicial reform involves repeal of law set up under British colonial rule in Palestine – here’s what that tells us
How the Soviets stole nuclear secrets and targeted Oppenheimer, the ‘father of the atomic bomb’

DOES SAM ALTMAN KNOW WHAT HE’S CREATING? The OpenAI CEO’s ambitious, ingenious, terrifying quest to create a new form of intelligence ...... The powerful AI that his company had released in November had captured the world’s imagination like nothing in tech’s recent history. ......... In small doses, Altman’s large blue eyes emit a beam of earnest intellectual attention, and he seems to understand that, in large doses, their intensity might unsettle. In this case, he was willing to chance it: He wanted me to know that whatever AI’s ultimate risks turn out to be, he has zero regrets about letting ChatGPT loose into the world. To the contrary, he believes it was a great public service. ........ .

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