The first forty years
/The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary. -Arthur Schopenhauer
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary. -Arthur Schopenhauer
“For God so loved the world, that he gave…” We are never more like him than when we do the same.
OpenAI Is in Early Talks to Raise New Funding at $100 Billion Valuation - Bloomberg
Ego, Fear and Money: How the A.I. Fuse Was Lit – The New York Times
OpenAI’s Custom Chatbots Are Leaking Their Secrets - Wired
Expert survey: Don't trust tech CEOs on AI – Axios
GitHub’s AI coding assistant, Copilot, is a moneymaker – Semafor
Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team - The Verge
OpenAI’s New Weapon in Talent War With Google: $10 Million Pay Packages for Researchers – The Information
Top Google executive: ‘We don’t believe in outsourcing’ AI development – Semafor
Seeking a Big Edge in A.I., South Korean Firms Think Smaller - The New York Times
Why do you think Matthew started his Gospel with a boring list of so-and-so begat so-and-so? Consider just the women mentioned in this genealogy. There are four of them before you get to Mary. Matthew introduces their glorious Messiah.. as descending from two harlots, one born out of incest and an adulterous. They are the only four ladies mentioned in the genealogy other than Mary.
He came crashing through the barriers that said, “You have to be born spiritually out of the ‘right kind’ of people.”
And today, he comes crashing through barriers you’ve erected, too. The barriers that place God in a nice comfortable corner where you can keep an eye on him. He breaks down those excuses that say, “God, you can’t use me. You can’t love me. I’m a sinner.”
God built a monument to grace on that genealogy. That’s why you shouldn’t shy away from admitting your past for what it was. It can be a monument to God’s grace in our lives. That’s when God can use us the most- when we realize who we are, where we come from, and how much our lives are dependent on God's grace—on receiving it and giving it to others.
Don’t hide from the past and pretend it didn’t happen. By admitting who we are and acknowledging how God completely changes us, he can bring us further than he could otherwise and use us more.. just like those people in the genealogy.
You stack up a row of harlots and liars and murderers and cheaters, and what do you have? You have Jesus. That’s the way God works.
Stephen Goforth
Darkness was cheap and Scrooge liked it. -Charles Dickens
Google Can’t Catch All the AI Images. Can You? - Bloomberg
Artificial intelligence can find your location in photos, worrying privacy experts – NPR
Over 100 Photographers Unite Against AI at World Press Photo – Blind Magazine
Are AI faces ‘more human’ than real ones? See if you can tell the difference – New York Post
A New Way to Tell Deepfakes From Real Photos: Can It Work? – WSJ
Adobe Caught Selling AI-Generated Images of Israel-Palestine Violence – Futurism
Fake Nudes of Real Students Cause an Uproar at a New Jersey High School - WSJ
Shutterstock, Adobe Stock are mixing AI-created images with real ones - Washington Post
OpenAI debates when to release its AI-generated image detector – Tech Crunch
A surge in fake AI-generated photos is eroding public trust in information online, charity warns - Daily Mail
Meta Is Scraping Photos From Facebook And Instagram To Create AI Images - Forbes
AI fake nudes are booming. It’s ruining real teens’ lives. – Washington Post
More online sellers are using AI-generated images, so what you buy may look different – NPR
A prisoner in 1830 named George Wilson was pardoned by the President. They brought Wilson the pardon, but he refused to accept it because it would mean admitting his guilt. So he walked to the hangman’s noose with the pardon in his pocket. That’s what each human is like. We have pardons in our pockets. But most people ignore their guilt, ignore the pardon, the new life, the love and power.
Harold Myra, The New You
I’ll state my convictions clearly, then allow others the freedom to respond as they see fit. -Les Carter
Why AI struggles to predict the future – NPR
How AI will upend the customer service industry - Semafor
OpenAI’s chief scientist, on his hopes and fears for the future of AI - MIT Technology Review
Forrester’s 2024 Predictions Report warns of AI ‘shadow pandemic’ as employees adopt unauthorized tools – VentureBeat
The biggest winners — and losers — in the coming AI job apocalypse – Business Insider
Now That Generative AI Is Here, Where Will All The Data Come From? – Forbes
Generative AI a la ChatGPT is pushing investors to new extremes of hype – Axios
The Generative AI Bubble Will Burst Soon – KD Nuggets
Wall Street Watchdog Says AI Will Cause 'Unavoidable' Economic Collapse – Gizmodo
Experts Predict the Future of Technology, AI & Humanity – Wired
An English professor long interested in the statistical analysis of literature & he thinks AI is a game-changer in our understanding of texts – Business Insider
How AI Is Impacting Society And Shaping The Future – Forbes
In its own words: The future of AI in sports – Sports Business Journal
A Texas high school football player gave fans another reason to cheer, after turning over his homecoming king crown to a friend with cerebral palsy. Fossil Ridge Panthers quarterback Max Akin stunned the crowd during a halftime ceremony when he kneeled and presented his crown to team equipment manager K.L. Norwood, who was also nominated for king. “What I did wasn’t as admirable as how K.L. treats everyone,” says Akin. “Loving everybody and having a heart like K.L. is what really matters in this world.”
Read more at CNN
NASA and IBM are building an AI for weather and climate applications – Engadget
Frito-Lay has created an AI-powered mic filter that can remove the crunching sound created by eating chips during online gaming sessions – Marketing Drive
Google DeepMind has created an AI system that can predict the structure of crystalline materials much faster than humans – The Next Web
A data visualization tracking tomato production in Europe – Data Innovation
Make I asked ChatGPT to create a Hallmark Christmas movie — and it went better than expected – Tom’s Guide
Personalized A.I. Agents Are Here. Is the World Ready for Them? – New York Times
This new AI video tool clones your voice in 7 languages — and it's blowing up – Tom’s Guide
How Will Editors Use AI? The Tech’s Role in Production and Post Scrutinized at IBC – Hollywood Reporter
Spotify develops ai-powered voice cloning tool that can translate podcasts into multiple languages – Music Business Worldwide
Spanish influencer agency designed this AI model after deciding real-life influencers are a pain – BGR
Tezuka Fans Unimpressed by Black Jack's First Official AI-Generated Manga – CBR
Why Read Books When You Can Use Chatbots to Talk to Them Instead? - WIRED
See how well you can haggle with AI to purchase real products – AI Garage Sale
AI-Generated Jimmy Stewart Narrates Bedtime Story for Calm App – Variety
6 ChatGPT mind-blowing extensions to use it anywhere – Medium
I have one life and one chance to make it count for something. -Jimmy Carter
The rise of the AI class – Nieman Labs
A financial news site uses AI to copy competitors — wholesale – Semafor
The Messenger Pens AI Partnership to Verify Its Reporting Quality – Adweek
News execs lobby lawmakers on AI protections - Axios
News Group Says A.I. Chatbots Heavily Rely on News Content – New York Times
Microsoft AI inserted a distasteful poll into a news report about a woman’s death – The Verge
Survey identifies media literacy skills gap amidst rise in AI-generated content – Poynter
Artificial Intelligence is good for many things, but it doesn’t work so well in Journalism – Chicago Sun-Times
The future of news is by people, for people – Journalism.co
Telegraph journalists told using ChatGPT in copy will be treated as plagiarism – Press Gazette
The news media and AI: a new front in copyright law – Columbia Journalism Review
Top Execs at Sports Illustrated's Publisher Fired After AI Debacle – Futurism
There are three depths of knowing.
Hearsay: You’ve heard of the president. You’ve heard of Mt. Everest.
Introduction: You’ve been introduced to the president. You’ve visited Mt. Everest.
Intimately: You’re a good friend of the president. You’ve climbed Mt. Everest.
Understanding comes when you wrestle with these questions:
What is the surest thing to you?
What would be the most impossible thing to doubt?
Stephen Goforth
"There are 204 counties in the US with no local news outlet, and 1,562 with only one, usually a weekly newspaper, That’s more than half of the nation’s counties." -Associated Press
Google's AI note-taking service 'NotebookLM' is now available – TechSpot
From bench to bot: How to use AI tools to convert notes into a draft – The Transmitter
Bard can now watch YouTube videos for you – The Verge
You can now create AI images right from Google Search — here’s how – Tom’s Guide
7 things I’ll tell my best friend, who is just getting started with Midjourney – Medium
How to Use AI Tools to Easily Make Short-Form TikTok and Reels Videos – Tech.co
Amazon Launches Free AI Classes in Bid to Win Talent Arms Race – Wall Street Journal
I tried Microsoft's AI-powered assistant, Copilot. The tool helpfully attends meetings and summarizes emails, but it's best to treat it as a rookie intern – Business Insiider
7 AI Tools That Help You Write Emails - MakeUseOf
Create Stunning Data Viz in Seconds with ChatGPT – KD Nuggets
How To Use Google's New AI Image Generator in Search – Tech.co
How to Use AI to Get Your Next Job, According to Career Experts – Reader’s Digest
Prompt Structure in Conversations with Generative AI – Nielsen Norman Group
For you will certainly carry out God’s purpose, however you act. But it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John. -CS Lewis
Tell all the truth but tell it slant. -Emily Dickinson, born Dec. 10, 1830
I can’t afford to let other people dictate my moods. The way I respond is up to me. -Les Carter
Although the act of nurturing another’s spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one’s own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved. The genuine lover always perceives the beloved as someone who has a totally separate identity. Moreover, the genuine lover always respects and even encourages this separateness and the unique individuality of the beloved. Failure to perceive and respect this separateness is extremely common, however, and the cause of much mental illness and unnecessary suffering.
Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled
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