By David Trinidad
Motley Fool Money - The Future of AI and The Nature of Consciousness
There are more potential moves on a Go board than there are atoms in the universe; the game is universally considered to be one of the most complex played by humans. And, yet, an AI computer program can play it perfectly. What does that mean for humanity?
Terry Sejnowski is the Frances Crick Chair at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, a Distinguished Professor at the University of San Diego, and author of the book “ChatGPT and The Future of AI.” Ricky Mulvey caught up with Sejnowski for a conversation about:
- How chatbots work.
- Mapping large neural models.
- What a self-aware parrot can teach us about human consciousness.
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Up First from NPR - Ceasefire On Track, Pandemic Preparedness, Pepsi Sued
Israel's war cabinet gave final approval to a ceasefire deal with Hamas overnight. Five years after the first COVID-19 case in the U.S., there is concern about how well the nation in positioned for the next pandemic. The Federal Trade Commission says Pepsi gave unfair deals to a major retailer.
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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Food Network’s Jeff Mauro Loves Chicago And Sandwiches
Chicago-native Jeff Mauro centers Chicago delicacies and culture as a Food Network celebrity chef. He hosted the Emmy-nominated show “Sandwich King” on The Food Network where he currently co-hosts “The Kitchen.” Reset learns more about Mauro and his passion for Chicago food and sandwiches and tastes offerings from his company Mauro Provisions.
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The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: Joe Biden’s Disastrous Foreign Policy and False Claims
In this edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Hanson critiques President Joe Biden’s claims about his own foreign policy in the waning days of his presidency.
“So why would you claim that you had done this outstanding achievement? And the war is not over. It’s the worst carnage in Europe since the Battle of Stalingrad—1.7 million dead, wounded or missing. It’s nothing to brag about. It’s a complete catastrophe.”
“He said that he was tough on China. He said China wasn’t our rival. He allowed a Chinese spy balloon to traverse the United States. For a week, he did nothing.”
“Trump didn’t have a war in Afghanistan because you lost it. And you humiliated us. And you destroyed deterrence…this was the single greatest disaster in foreign policy in a century, and yet, he had the audacity to go before the State Department and claim it was a great success.”
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Everything Everywhere Daily - Operation Market Garden (Encore)
After the Allied landing in Normandy in World War II, the Allies made progress pushing back the Germans.
However, by September, things had slowed down. One allied commander devised a plan that he thought would end the war in one fell swoop.
The plan was bold, audacious, and highly risky, and in the end, it was ultimately a failure.
Learn more about Operation Market Garden and the attempt to quickly bring an end to the war on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Getting Hammered - A North Carolina Update: An Interview with Matt Van Swol
In this episode, Mary Katharine speaks with Matt Van Swol, who’s been working on the ground in western North Carolina. Together, they discuss the region’s ongoing recovery efforts and the widespread damage, from devastated infrastructure to displaced communities, four months after Hurricane Helene.
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NBN Book of the Day - Eva Payne, “Empire of Purity: The History of Americans’ Global War on Prostitution” (Princeton UP, 2024)
Between the 1870s and 1930s, American social reformers, working closely with the US government, transformed sexual vice into an international political and humanitarian concern. As these activists worked to eradicate prostitution and trafficking, they promoted sexual self-control for both men and women as a cornerstone of civilization and a basis of American exceptionalism. Empire of Purity: The History of Americans' Global War on Prostitution (Princeton University Press, 2024) by Dr. Eva Payne traces the history of these efforts, showing how the policing and penalization of sexuality was used to justify American interventions around the world.
Dr. Eva Payne describes how American reformers successfully pushed for international anti-trafficking agreements that mirrored US laws, calling for states to criminalize prostitution and restrict migration, and harming the very women they claimed to protect. She argues that Americans’ ambitions to reshape global sexual morality and law advanced an ideology of racial hierarchy that viewed women of color, immigrants, and sexual minorities as dangerous vectors of disease. Dr. Payne tells the stories of the sex workers themselves, revealing how these women’s experiences defy the dichotomies that have shaped American cultural and legal conceptions of prostitution and trafficking, such as choice and coercion, free and unfree labor, and white sexual innocence and the assumed depravity of nonwhites.
Drawing on archives in Europe, the United States, and Latin America, Empire of Purity ties the war on sexual vice to American imperial ambitions and a politicization of sexuality that continues to govern both domestic and international policy today.
This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars.
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New Books in Native American Studies - Andrew Laird, “Aztec Latin: Renaissance Learning and Nahuatl Traditions in Early Colonial Mexico” (Oxford UP, 2024)
Andrew Laird, of Brown University, discusses Aztec Latin: Renaissance Learning and Nahuatl Traditions in Early Colonial Mexico (Oxford University Press, 2024). In 1536, only fifteen years after the fall of the Aztec empire, Franciscan missionaries began teaching Latin, classical rhetoric, and Aristotelian philosophy to native youths in central Mexico. The remarkable linguistic and cultural exchanges that would result from that initiative are the subject of this book. Aztec Latin highlights the importance of Renaissance humanist education for early colonial indigenous history, showing how practices central to humanism — the cultivation of eloquence, the training of leaders, scholarly translation, and antiquarian research — were transformed in New Spain to serve Indian elites as well as the Spanish authorities and religious orders.
While Franciscan friars, inspired by Erasmus' ideal of a common tongue, applied principles of Latin grammar to Amerindian languages, native scholars translated the Gospels, a range of devotional literature, and even Aesop's fables into the Mexican language of Nahuatl. They also produced significant new writings in Latin and Nahuatl, adorning accounts of their ancestral past with parallels from Greek and Roman history and importing themes from classical and Christian sources to interpret pre-Hispanic customs and beliefs. Aztec Latin reveals the full extent to which the first Mexican authors mastered and made use of European learning and provides a timely reassessment of what those indigenous authors really achieved.
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The NewsWorthy - Special Edition: End of TikTok? Ban to Take Effect Sunday
It’s official: the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a law banning the popular social media app TikTok over national security concerns unless its Chinese owners sell it by Sunday (Jan 19).
Our guests today help explain what a TikTok ban might actually look like, what its 170 million American users can expect next, and more.
First, The Wall Street Journal tech reporter Sarah Needleman shares more about what will happen with the app starting tomorrow, and whether TikTok may still be saved. Then, constitutional law expert Jessica Levinson talks about the Supreme Court justices’ decision, and what the options are, legally, for President-elect Trump moving forward.
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