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人工知能（AI）に、第三者がチェック可能な「キルスイッチ」（強制停止機能）を搭載することを、開発企業に義務付ける必要があるかもしれない――。そうした考えを、世界最大級のAI企業の共同創業者の1人がBBCの番組で述べた。AIの急速な発展と、それが人類にもたらすリスクに対する懸念について、AI企業の幹部やスタッフが相次ぎ警告を発しており、一気に注目されている。

Have you noticed that if you want to improve basically any skill beyond a certain point, the only way to do that is to do the thing a lot? You can learn fingerings and practice scales and embouchure o...

1 This morning I woke up in a small room mostly unfamiliar to me. The walls were bare and white and the sky outside the window was gray. The floor was carpeted, a tight carpet with almost no shag, si...

I don't quite remember the website where I found Owl City's music, but I do know that wherever it was I downloaded "Hello Seattle" for free: at the time I was a cheapskate high school student in love ...

Who knows what sort of media from our current dark age will last as long as The Odyssey, of course, and if the past is anything to go by, music seems a good deal less sticky than words. And in any cas...

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PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...

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Around this time last year, I started watching ようこそ実力至上主義の教室へ, titled Welcome to the Classroom of the Elite or just Classroom of the Elite in English, and sometimes shortened to よう実 in Japanese. The ...

Alt: Yzma (The Emperor’s New Groove) “Why do we even HAVE that lever?!”

The Hobonichi Techo (ほぼ日手帳, "almost daily planner") is a Japanese planner brand with something of a cult following. I think I heard of it first back in 2018 through rave reviews and hype for next year...

Or: what is the point of the work that I do? When I was in grad school and for the first part of my postdoc, I would almost proudly disclaim practical applications of the mathematics research I do. ...

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Or: what I'm trying and have tried, anyway. I think I was in middle school when I decided that I wanted to learn Japanese. I think the draw was some combination of anime (also Pokémon), sushi, a sens...

My family has this card game, Authors. It's basically Go Fish, except that instead of asking if people have the 10 of clubs or whatever, you're asking if they have The Last of the Mohicans, for instan...