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Stephen Goforth
Most fact-checking sites give out-sized space to political issues. This misses a deal of quality journalism published in other areas (health, environment, religion, etc.). Also, a complaint leveled at fact-checkers is that they will sometimes fall into “selection bias”—the tendency to pick apart stories promoting views with which they disagree.
Fact-Checker News Literacy Project
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Language that speaks of hopes, dreams, and affirmations (“You are the best!”), this kind of language--let’s call it high motivation--has its role. High motivation is not the kind of language that ignites people. What works is.. speaking to the ground-level effort, affirming the struggle. Phrases like, “Wow, you really tried hard,” or “Good job, dude,” motivate far better than empty praise.
Daniel Coyle, The Talent Code
The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. –Charles Swindoll
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. -Buckminster Fuller
Faith sees best in the dark -Søren Kierkegaard
Censorship slows China's AI advances - Axios
Google brings AI to US broadcast of Paris Olympics – Reuters
OpenAI says chat bots will soon be able to perform human-level reasoning - Axios
A.I. Needs Copper. It Just Helped to Find Millions of Tons of It. – New York Times
OpenAI working on new reasoning technology under code name ‘Strawberry’ – Reuters
AI's problem: The missing revenues - Axios
OpenAI illegally stopped staff from sharing dangers, whistleblowers say - The Washington Post
Microsoft Quits OpenAI’s Board Amid Antitrust Scrutiny – Wall Street Journal
AI Investors Are Starting to Wonder: Is This Just a Bubble? – New York Magazine
OpenAI Scale Ranks Progress Toward `Human-Level' Problem Solving – Bloomberg
AI companies are finally being forced to cough up for training data – MIT Tech Review
OpenAI promised to make its AI safe. Employees say it ‘failed’ its first test. - The Washington Post
California advances unique safety regulations for AI companies despite tech firm opposition – Associated Press
In the AI era, data is gold. And these companies are striking it rich – Fast Company
The digital twin baby boom in the AI industry - Axios
A Hacker Stole OpenAI Secrets, Raising Fears That China Could, Too – New York Times
For AI Giants, Smaller Is Sometimes Better - Wall Street Journal
It is a law of human life as certain as gravity: To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people.. not love things and use people.
There is this strain, especially among popular communicators of science, that if you don’t look at the world through a scientific lens, then what’s the point; you’re just fooling yourself; you’re living in a world of delusions.
But my pushback to that is, I’m a professional scientist; the vast majority of decisions that I make in my everyday life are not based on the scientific method. When I’m trying to pick what to have for dinner tonight, or who to fall in love with, I’m not using the scientific method, I’m just following my gut —literally when it comes to dinner. I’m just using other tools than the scientific method to arrive at conclusions and decisions.
There are many, many questions that science does not have a solid answer on, and may not ever have a solid answer on. And it’s perfectly legitimate for people to turn to other modes of inquiry and investigation into this beautiful, messy world that we live in, to seek answers and comfort from that.
Astrophysicist Paul M. Sutter quoted in Undark
“The line separating good and evil passes, not through states, nor between classes nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart." -Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Solzhenitsyn endured many years in a Russian Gulag (labor camp) and could write that statement with conviction. Many men did not survive the terrible weather and the harsh treatment in the Gulag.
Solzhenitsyn was dying while interned — until a fellow prisoner showed him unexpected kindness, changing his attitude and refreshing his spirit. He survived to become one of Russia's most well-read and revered writers
Stephen Goforth
Find a regular time and place to be alone. People in transition are often still involved in activities and relationships that continue to bombard them with cues irrelevant to their emerging needs. Because a person is likely to feel lonely in such a situation, the temptation is to seek more and better contact with others; but the real need is for a genuine sort of aloneness in which inner signals can make themselves heard. Doing housework after the kids leave for school or paperwork with the office door shut are not being alone in the sense I am talking about.
The old passage rituals provide the person with this experience of deep aloneness, often in a wilderness setting. (Interestingly, the Hebrew word for the “wilderness” in which Jesus, Moses, and Buddha spent time during critical periods of their lives is the same word that means ‘sanctuary.” This unmappable “nowhere” was also, as several of these heroes were explicitly told, holy ground.) Traditionally, time spent in such “sanctuaries” was a continuous period; but you many have to plan your time to accommodate your own life situation. One person manages that getting up every morning forty-five minutes ahead of the rest of the family and sitting quietly in the living room with a cup of coffee. Another jogs regularly after work for a half an hour. Another plays ocean sounds and temple bells on his car stereo whenever he drives along. Still another has cleaned out a little storage room off the upstairs hall and sits quietly alone in there for an hour after supper.
William Bridges, Transitions
YouTube will use AI to snip copyrighted music and not silence your whole video – Tech Radar
Three senators introduce bill to protect artists and journalists from unauthorized AI use – Engadget
Chevron’s downfall highlights need for clear artificial intelligence laws - FedScoop
The AI Shakeup: New Tech Innovations and the Future of Corporate Law – JD Supra
Decoding US Copyright Law and Fair Use for Generative AI Legal Cases – Medium
Two 80-something journalists tried ChatGPT. Then, they sued to protect the ‘written word’ – Associated Press
Colorado’s Landmark AI Act: What Companies Need To Know – Skadden
Record labels sue two AI startups for copyright infringement – Axios
Deepfakes and the First Amendment: Are Deepfakes Illegal? – Freedom Forum
What Do You Do When A.I. Takes Your Voice? – New York Times
AI Legal Tools Could Be Too Pricey For Those Most In Need – Law360
Drake threatened with lawsuit over diss track featuring AI Tupac – The Verge
AI is creating fake legal cases and making its way into real courtrooms, with disastrous results – The Conversation
Generative AI For Legal Professionals: What To Know And What To Do Right Now – Above the Law
Gen AI Shows Promise — And Peril — For Pro Se Litigants - Law360
AI hustlers stole women’s faces to put in ads. The law can’t help them. – The Washington Post
Generative AI Is Challenging a 234-Year-Old Law – The Atlantic
George Carlin’s estate settles lawsuit over AI comedy special – Washington Post
How GenAI can enhance your legal work without compromising ethics – Reuters Legal
Calif.'s Top Judge Launches Task Force To Probe AI Uses - Law360
How Dow Jones is building a framework to tackle AI copyright challenges – Journalism.co
The most remarkable aspect about John Wooden--and the most telling about his ability to focus on his priorities--is that he never scouted opposing teams. Instead, he focused on getting his players to reach their potential. And he addressed those things through practice and personal interaction with the players. It was never his goal to win championships or even to be the other team. His desire was to get each person to play to his potential and to put the best possible team on the floor. And, of course, Wooden’s results were incredible. In more than 40 years of coaching, he had only one losing season--his first. And he led his UCLA teams to four undefeated seasons and a record 10 in NCAA championships. No other college team is ever come close.
John Maxwell, The 21 irrefutable laws of leadership
If you do not oppose legalism, you will be consumed by it. Chuck Swindoll
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away. -Henry David Thoreau (born July 12, 1817)
Stanford report: How AI is actually transforming the business world – Big Think
AI Business Survey: Four Themes Emerging - Bain
How One Company Is Using AI To Transform Manufacturing – Forbes
Businesses are rushing to use generative AI. Now comes the messy part. – Business Insider
Get Ready for More AI Mania This Earnings Season - Wall Street Journal
Managing the risks around generative AI – McKinsey
How Businesses Can Figure Out The ROI On AI – Forbes
German Companies Bet on AI But Payoff Could Be Years Away – Wall Street Journal
4 Types of Gen AI Risk and How to Mitigate Them – Harvard Business Review
PayPal Mafia’s David Sacks on his new AI-powered work chat app rivaling Slack – Semafor
AI Is Driving ‘the Next Industrial Revolution.’ Wall Street Is Cashing In. - Wall Street Journal
Janet Yellen warns AI in finance poses ‘significant risks’ – KTVZ
How Generative AI is Changing the Global South’s IT Services Sector – Center for Data Innovation
Can A.I. Answer the Needs of Smaller Businesses? Some Push to Find Out. – New York Times
Happiness is not the end of life: Character is. –Henry Ward Beech
God creates each person as an individual and in effect says to each human being: “Become yourself, be the person I made you to be.” The person who is conscious that he lives “before God” thus gains the possibility of an identity that is not exhausted by human relations. Such a person is not forced simply to live like “the others,” but has the potential to say, “I need to live my life this way, since it is what God desires for me, even if it means that I have to break with my society’s accepted ways of doing things.”
C. Steven Evans, Kierkegaard: An Introduction
Go be the next version of you. -Bob Goff
Researchers recently tested how audiences liked three types of video: human-made, partly automated and fully automated video. The human-made video did best with audiences, but only slightly better than the partly AI video. Both did much better than the fully AI-made video. The researchers think this supports the use of the hybrid form over fully automated since "audiences like their videos to have a human touch." A key part of making this work, I believe, will be identifying what the audience perceives as indicating a piece of media is AI or human-made. For instance, the researchers note that the audience associated nat sound with video that was (at least partly) human-created. This may translate to other forms of media creation as well. The study is published here and read more about it here.
Stephen Goforth
Taking our cue from the machinery and the data that dominate our world, we usually view knowledge as something that accumulates piecemeal over time. You start out with a little, and then you gradually pick up more and more. It’s like possessions: they pile up over time. But passive accumulation isn’t the way that you learn the most important things that you know about the world. First you are immersed in the knowledge, then you get distance from it (and even deny it) and then you return to a new relation with it.
William Bridges, The Way of Transition
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