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Translation: When you are young, you have raw smarts; when you are old, you have wisdom. When you are young, you can generate lots of facts; when you are old, you know what they mean and how to use them.
From Strength to Strength
Brooks, Arthur C.
The Copilot designers also concluded that they needed to encourage users to essentially become hackers—to devise tricks and workarounds to overcome A.I.’s limitations and even unlock some uncanny capacities.
The Inside Story of Microsoft’s Partnership with OpenAI | The New Yorker
Charles Duhigg
Raja had studied Urdu in school in those days before the Partition when students had a choice between Hindi and Urdu. It was a natural enough choice to make for the son of a Delhi family: Urdu had been the court language in the days of the Muslim and Moghul rulers and had persisted as the language of the learned and the cultivated. Hindi was not then considered a language of great pedigree; it had little to show for itself in its modern, clipped, workaday form, and its literature was all in ancient, extinct dialects. Raja, who read much and had a good ear, was aware of such differences.
Clear Light of Day
Anita Desai
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