Art in Meta

art works better as a way of seeing than as a way of showing. The arts can document and sometimes pre-empt changes in how people view the world around them, pointing to multiple perspectives or clashes, deconstructing and reconstructing, taking people up to the cosmic or down to the microscopic. They can do this in compelling ways that reach large

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OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. In a filing submitted to the U.K. Parliament, the company said that “leading AI models” could not exist without unfettered access to copyrighted books and articles, confirming that the generative-AI industry, worth tens of billions of dollars, depends on creative work owned by other people.

Mercy is one of the higher values. Like forgiveness and compassion and love, mercy depends on much more than the letter of the law. It is imaginative. It imagines the situation of the one who is in need of mercy - even if that person doesn’t know it.

This is the brain of a butterfly undergoing metamorphosis as new neurones are born through a process called neurogenesis. Studying this process can provide valuable insights into how the nervous system is formed, as well as brain disorders, says scientist Alcalde Anton

On a gray Saturday morning in March of 1976, two nattily dressed London sophisticates left the city, driving west toward the decidedly unfashionable environs of rural Gloucestershire. One of the two was Eric Lister, owner of a quirky art gallery called the Portal. The other had a much higher profile. At age 42, Tom Maschler was already something of... See more

What interests me most, however, are David Montgomery’s intricate character studies of the treasure seekers, as well as his insight in connecting their consuming passion to a modern-day lack of faith in mainstream media and politicians. As usual, it is the very human stories of desire, belief, and commitment that provide the most fascinating... See more