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Where AI Predictions Go Wrong

Kelsey Piper Vox
How close are large language models to achieving general intelligence? Observers offer diametrically opposed answers. But both skeptics and boosters may be too sure of themselves.

Michael Pollan on His 25-Year Fight With the Food Industry

Zoe Williams The Guardian
“It was the tobacco companies, under pressure from the government over smoking, that bought the food industry. So it’s a similar playbook, except now they know to burn the internal memos saying: ‘We know this food is unhealthy.’”