AI is popping up everywhere nowadays. From medicine to science to the Hollywood strikes. Today, with computer scientist and AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, we dig deeper into the history of the field, how machines really learn and how computer scientists take inspiration from the human brain in their work. Li's new memoir The Worlds I See traces the history of her move to the U.S. from China as a high school student and her coming-of-age with AI.
Host Regina G. Barber talks to Li about her memoir, where the field may be going and the importance of centering humans in the development of new technology.
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The Daily Signal - Stories of America’s WWII Veterans and How a Rifle Became a Microphone
Andrew Biggio was excited to show his neighbor, a WWII veteran, the M1 Garand rifle he had recently purchased. The weapon was the most common rifle used in WWII, and Biggio thought his elderly neighbor would appreciate holding the gun.
“When I put that rifle into his hands and he raised it into his shoulder and started waving it around the room and pointing and smiling, and we talked about the Battle of Okinawa for like three hours,” Biggio, a Marine veteran himself, recounts.
Biggio was in awe of the stories his elderly neighbor had just shared with him. The rifle had not only triggered memories in the veteran's mind, but acted like a microphone, propelling the man to describe his war experiences in detail.
Biggio asked his neighbor to sign the rifle becasue he wanted to remember the stories he had just been told, and this gave Biggio the idea to find other WWII veterans and ask them to sign the M1 Garand rifle.
Today, “I have 320 names on that rifle,” Biggio says. “You can't even see the wooden stock. The whole rifle's full of white ink names.”
But the majority of the soldiers who have held the rifle have done much more than signed it, they described their war stories in detail while grasping the weapon, stories which Biggio has compiled into two book.
His first book, “The Rifle: Combat Stories from America's Last WWII Veterans, Told Through an M1 Garand,” was released in 2021 but could not hold all veteran stories. In September, Biggio released the project’s second edition, “The Rifle 2: Back to the Battlefield.”
Biggio joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to share some of the stories of the WWII veterans he has had the privilege of meeting and writing about.
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The Best One Yet - 💁♀️ “Gwyneth goes to Tarjay” — Goop’s hot pivot. Netflix’s LA movie theater. Cruise’s robotaxi brake.
Netflix spent $70M over 3-years to renovate the most historic movie theater in America — Because there’s corporate *philanthropy* and then there’s corporate *heroism*.
Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop is making a risky move: Launching in Target – She’s trying to stretch the brand from aspirational to accessible.
And Cruise robotaxis, the self-driving startup owned by GM, just had its worst month yet — It’s not the mistake they made, it’s how they handled it.
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - TBD | Tesla vs. the Swedes
In late October, Tesla mechanics in Sweden began to strike after the company refused to sign a collective agreement. This week, the country's other major unions joined in the fight as well.
Can Sweden’s robust labor culture force Tesla to make concessions?
Guest: Melissa Eddy, Berlin correspondent for the New York Times.
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NPR's Book of the Day - In ‘Thicker Than Water,’ Kerry Washington processes a family secret
Kerry Washington is well-known for her roles in Scandal, Little Fires Everywhere and Django Unchained. But in her new memoir, she reveals a LOT that the public doesn't know about her – and one big thing she didn't even know about herself until fairly recently. In today's episode, Washington sits down with NPR's Juana Summers for a two-part conversation about how a secret her parents kept for decades challenged – and strengthened – her relationship with them, and how she's managed the vulnerability that comes with sharing that journey with the rest of the world.
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Opening Arguments - OA830: Trump Eats it on the Witness Stand as Republicans Eat it at the Polls (feat. Joe Dye)
Liz and Andrew break down Donald Trump's testimony in the New York civil investigation. Then, Andrew welcomes back Joe Dye to talk about Tuesday's election results. You won't want to miss it! Notes Engoron PSJ order https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24120504-engoron-decision-sept-2023 -Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/law
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It Could Happen Here - How to Build a Bail Fund
James talks to some of the blue ridge bail fund organizers about this they have built and sustained their bail fund .
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More than a dozen letters, some containing fentanyl, sent to election offices in 5 states. Israel agrees to 4-hour daily humanitarian pauses in Gaza. West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin says he won't seek reelection. CBS News Correspondent Jennifer Keiper with tonight's World News Roundup.
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The Gist - We Have FedEx’d Our Pandas Back To China
China recalls its pandas, and Americans bid them a tearful adieu. If only we could form such a tight bond with the Uyghurs. We are also joined by Dr. Jonathan Howard, author of We Want Them Infected: How the failed quest for herd immunity led doctors to embrace the anti-vaccine movement and blinded Americans to the threat of COVID, to discuss the concept of herd immunity. Then we turn to yesterday's GOP debate, where shooting people was proposed as a U.S. policy for immigration.
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Consider This from NPR - Far from Gaza, West Bank Farmers Face Harassment from Israeli Soldiers and Settlers
It's olive harvesting season in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. But farmer Ayoub Abu Hejleh hasn't been able to harvest olives from any of his 370 trees yet this year.
He says Israeli soldiers and settlers have blocked him from his land since the war started. That was back on October 7, when Hamas insurgents attacked Israel, killing more than 1,400 people.
While the world has focused on Israel's response in Gaza, violence in the West Bank is also spiking.
The International Crisis Group estimates more than 130 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since the war began.
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly and her team traveled to Abu Hejleh's village. They saw first-hand how the war between Israel and Hamas is upending lives for Palestinians in the West Bank, sometimes in extremely frightening ways.
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He says Israeli soldiers and settlers have blocked him from his land since the war started. That was back on October 7, when Hamas insurgents attacked Israel, killing more than 1,400 people.
While the world has focused on Israel's response in Gaza, violence in the West Bank is also spiking.
The International Crisis Group estimates more than 130 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since the war began.
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly and her team traveled to Abu Hejleh's village. They saw first-hand how the war between Israel and Hamas is upending lives for Palestinians in the West Bank, sometimes in extremely frightening ways.
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