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Google's multimodal capabilities are second to none. It was already the best at understanding images and video. Gemini 2.0 doesn't just understand images and video; it can reason about them in real time—no more waiting for a response.

As Varoufakis points out in Technofeudalism , one of the paradoxes of capitalism is that when you as a worker are hired somewhere, there are two kinds of value being exchanged. There’s your ‘exchange value’, or how much money your time is worth in the free market. And then there’s your ‘experiential value’, the value of your qualities as a human... See more

Etnisch nationalisme zorgde vooral voor spanningen tussen volkeren onderling en inspireerde onafhankelijkheidsconflicten; van de strijd van Polen om vrij te worden van Russische overheersing tot de Ierse emancipatiestrijd. Dit liep nooit uit op genocide. Eén van de meest gruwelijke slachtpartijen van het ene volk door het andere in Europa in de... See more

In their book Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict, political scientists Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan compare over 300 violent and non-violent struggles in the 20th century to conclude that non-violent civil disobedience is about twice as effective as armed revolution.

The algorithms and machine learning that decides whether your child gets health insurance coverage are impossibly opaque and complex.

But they are still embodied, even if they appear not to be. They run on silicon and coltan and copper, housed in servers that can be destroyed, hacked, or damaged. Complex legal paperwork can’t stop a bullet piercing... See more

In theory, any action that is available through an application programming interface (API) can be done by an LLM. This functionality is available with OpenAI’s custom GPTs—its platform for creating and hosting your own version of ChatGPT—and called GPT Actions.