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� � � � � � How Not to Be an Accidental Mansplainer: Always Follow the 3 A's Approach to Advice  - Inc.com    Giving feedback sounds, at first blush, like it should be relatively simple. You have expertise, and you share. Job done. But a host of research suggests that providing feedback that's both useful and appreciated can be surprisingly tricky.  The problems start with those asking for feedback: People are generally too reluctant to seek out advice at all, and even when we do reach out, we usually target the wrong people. But the problems just get worse when you look at the issues managers and business owners can run into when they try to provide advice.  We are all, research shows, way too cautious about giving feedback. People want it more than we think. But, alas, when we do offer our ideas and suggestions, we often do it in ways that are confusing, unhelpful, or unintentionally insulting.  Continued here � � � � � � Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium Chaos in the Cradle of A.I. - The New Yorker    In the 1991 movie “Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” a sentient killer robot travels back in time to stop the rise of artificial intelligence. The robot locates the computer scientist whose work will lead to the creation of Skynet, a computer system that will destroy the world, and convinces him that A.I. development must be stopped immediately. Together, they travel to the headquarters of Cyberdyne Systems, the company behind Skynet, and blow it up. The A.I. research is destroyed, and the course of history is changed—at least, for the rest of the film. (There have been four further sequels.) In the sci-fi world of “Terminator 2,” it’s crystal clear what it means for an A.I. to become “self-aware,” or to pose a danger to humanity; it’s equally obvious what might be done to stop it. But in real life, the thousands of scientists who have spent their lives working on A.I. disagree about whether today’s systems think, or could become capable of it; they’re uncertain about what sorts of regulations or scientific advances could let the technology flourish while also preventing it from becoming dangerous. Because some people in A.I hold strong and unambiguous views about these subjects, it’s possible to get the impression that the A.I. community is divided cleanly into factions, with one worried about risk and the other eager to push forward. But most researchers are somewhere in the middle. They’re still mulling the scientific and philosophical complexities; they want to proceed cautiously, whatever that might mean. OpenAI, the research organization behind ChatGPT, has long represented that middle-of-the-road position. It was founded in 2015, as a nonprofit, with big investments from Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, who were (and are) concerned about the risks A.I. poses. OpenAI’s goal, as stated in its charter, has been to develop so-called artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I., in a way that is “safe and beneficial” for humankind. Even as it tries to build “highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work,” it plans to insure that A.I. will not “harm humanity or unduly concentrate power.” These two goals may very well be incompatible; building systems that can replace human workers has a natural tendency to concentrate power. Still, the organization has sought to honor its charter through a hybrid arrangement. In 2019, it divided itself into two units, one for-profit, one nonprofit, with the for-profit part overseen by the nonprofit part. At least in theory, the for-profit part of OpenAI would act like a startup, focussing on accelerating and commercializing the technology; the nonprofit part would act like a watchdog, preventing the creation of Skynet, while pursuing research that might answer important questions about A.I. safety. The profits and investment from commercialization would fund the nonprofit’s research. Continued here � � � � � � Opinion | Is Ireland Headed for a Merger? - The New York Times    Murals along the historic Catholic hub of the Falls Road in Belfast celebrate those who died for the republican cause.Credit...Rhiannon Adam for The New York Times Before she died in 2013, Dolours Price, a Provisional Irish Republican Army guerrilla, started granting interviews. She described planting I.R.A. bombs and driving people to their executions, smuggling explosives and going on hunger strike in a British prison. But it was Ms. Price’s memories of girlhood in 1950s Northern Ireland that kept running through my mind during a recent trip to this city. Ms. Price was born into an era of Catholic disenfranchisement under British rule — job discrimination, vote suppression and barriers to housing and education. Most of all, Ms. Price told the journalist Ed Moloney, her family resented having been left inside the United Kingdom — abandoned to live under a government they considered foreign — when six northern counties were partitioned from the rest of the island after Irish independence. Continued here � � � � � � The Invisible War in Ukraine Being Fought Over Radio Waves - The New York Times    Using electromagnetic waves to flummox and follow smarter weapons has become a critical part of the cat-and-mouse game between Ukraine and Russia. The United States, China and others have taken note. A visualization of the rapidly-changing frequencies of the Himera military radio, which features signal-hopping technology that makes it difficult to jam.Credit...Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times Paul Mozur reported from Kyiv, Dnipro, and Odesa, Ukraine. Aaron Krolik reported from New York. Continued here

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