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Previously unused archival footage of the Soviet Union and Russia from the BBC's Moscow bureau was unearthed and digitised by a BBC employee, Phil Goodwin.[1] Adam Curtis appeared to be the only person within the BBC interested in using the footage.[2] In a departure from his usual style, Curtis opted not to use voiceovers or non-diegetic music, with the only commentary made via on-screen captions.[3][2] Curtis, in a piece in The Guardian, explained this choice was because the footage was "so strong that I didn’t want to intrude pointlessly, but rather let viewers simply experience what was happening".[4] In an interview with Meduza, Curtis stated that Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace served as an inspiration for him as "it appeals to my collage mind".[5]
We support Bengio’s call for principles-based legislation and international agreements, an approach in line with UK regulatory philosophy and one that is well suited to the current uncertainty of AI development. Unlike the rules-based systems favoured in the US, China and much of the EU, this governance model focuses on outcomes rather than... See more
Azeem Azhar • 🔮 Volt revolution; AI’s Magna Carta; digital Trojan horses; physi-maze madness ++ #482
Book Review - Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
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Never before have I seen work as a task to be shared, and not only shared, but made light on its feet with humour and pranks as if it were something wonderful and not a life sentence.
Judy Fairbairns • Island Wife: living on the edge of the wild
Music — with all the mysterious power by which it “enters one’s ears and dives straight into one’s soul, one’s emotional center” — is made not of notes of sound but of atoms of time. And if music is made of time, and if time is the substance we ourselves are made of, then in some profound sense, we are made of music.
Maria Popova • We Are Made of Music, We Are Made of Time: Violinist Natalie Hodges on the Poetic Science of Sound and Feeling
This is all early, and based on first impressions, but I think that voice capabilities like GPT-4o’s are going to change how most people interact with AI systems. Voice and visual interactions are more natural than text and will have broader appeal to a wider audience. The future will involve talking to AI.
Ethan Mollick • On speaking to AI
Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things. He is seeking knowledge; 'it is only after you have come to know the surface of things that you can venture to seek what is underneath'. Whether contemplating a fine cheese, a hungry gecko, a woman sunbathing topless or a flight of migrant starlings, Mr Palomar's... See more