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Two months later, I visited Bill Gates to give an update on Khan Academy, and I learned why the OpenAI folks had shown an AP biology question. Bill told me that when he first encountered GPT-3, he was impressed, but he had told the OpenAI team that he’d only be really impressed if it was capable of passing the AP biology exam. What the OpenAI team had shown me in that first demo was that GPT-4 could now do so. “This changes everything,” I said to Greg and Sam, my mind spinning with possible ways that GPT-4 might allow us to reimagine education, credentials, work, and human potential.
Brave New Words
Salman Khan
Making music with others is a profoundly intimate experience. Philosopher Bennett Reimer described it as a self-combined-with-other-selves experience in which individuality and community are fused in service of original musical expression. So powerful is this experience in enhancing both the sense of self and the sense of self united with other selves as to change the inner lives of all who have been privileged to undergo it.2 Practice with others. You’ll find that bouncing ideas off another musician will go a long way toward improving your own approach and clarifying what you need to do next. And the very best part about practicing with others is that it’s fun. It can be lonely sitting in a practice room all alone, hour after hour, day after day. Practicing with other people is much more enjoyable. Sometimes, there is beer. And fire. And stars.
The Practice of Practice
Jonathan Harnum
Do. The. Work. Every day, you have to do something you don’t want to do. Every day. Challenge yourself to be uncomfortable, push past the apathy and laziness and fear. Otherwise, the next day you’re going to have two things you don’t want to do, then three and four and five, and pretty soon, you can’t even get back to the first thing. And then all you can do is beat yourself up for the mess you’ve created, and now you’ve got a mental barrier to go along with the physical barriers.
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