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Friday Nite Videos | May 26, 2023

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The Corporate Money Behind 'No Labels.' Tina Turner Talks About Gaining Respect in the Music Industry. Henry Kissinger Is 100 and Still Free, Somehow | Mehdi Hasan. After Uvalde: Guns, Grief & Texas Politics. AI Assists 50-Year Math Breakthrough.

AI Assists 50-Year Math Breakthrough

Researchers at Google research lab DeepMind trained an AI system called AlphaTensor to find new, faster algorithms to tackle an age-old math problem: matrix multiplication.

The Writers’ Strike Opens Old Wounds

Kate Fortmueller Los Angeles Review of Books
While the methods of production and distribution have transformed several times over, every industry-wide strike since 1950 has been about residuals. Residuals have historically been the most hard-fought battles. Now there is streaming, and AI.

Dark Arts

Interview by J.J. Gould The Signal
How are authoritarians using artificial intelligence for political repression? Steven Feldstein on the global spread of anti-democratic applications for innovative technologies.

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The Disappearing White-Collar Job

Chip Cutter and Harriet Torry The Wall Street Journal
A once-in-a-generation convergence of technology and pressure to operate more efficiently has corporations saying many lost jobs may never return.
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