I love this library. I have borrowed books from this library during summer holiday visits to family-friends when I was a child 🙂

Are we grateful, appreciative or just plain thankful?
And how is it different?

Oh Gosh! All three are amongst my absolute favourites 😄
Different strokes…

Surrealism, cafes and lots (and lots) of cats: why Japanese fiction is booming From tales of alienation to comforting novels set in bookshops, Japanese authors have written nearly half of this year’s bestselling translated novels in the UK. What’s their secret?

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Microsoft at 50: An AI Giant. A Kinder Culture. And Still Hellbent on Domination When Satya Nadella took over as CEO, the company was lumbering and uncool. He cleaned up a toxic culture, crafted the deal of the decade, and put Microsoft back on top.

It's TERRIFYING when an article you've been looking forward to drops and the first 2 words are your name. I almost couldn't keep reading!

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The Artificiality of Alignment How are we actually “aligning AI with human values”?

i spent months reading alignmentforum so you don't have to

https://joinreboot.org/p/alignment

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Image of an imagined green woodland scene with a standing central glowing ghost-like figure cloaked in white light, a tree in silhouette to the left and branches in silhouette to the right

Icelandic singer Björk has just created a haunting A.I. sound installation for the Centre Pompidou, Paris, 'Nature Manifesto" includes the sounds of extinct and endangered animals

Digital Futures Lab on LinkedIn: #aisovereignty #digitalinfrastructure #techpolicy #digitalindia The concept that every country should develop its own AI capabilities is gathering steam globally. Several countries are investing in specialised computational…

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Kling (the AI video tool from the Chinese company Kuaishou Technology) is really good.

I've been making fictional products, like a laser cake slicer, and it manages to get both the smoke physics, lighting, and cake physics pretty consistently right at 1080p