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By one calculation, if we found a cure for all cancers tomorrow, it would add just 3.2 years to overall life expectancy.

The Body

Bill Bryson

Tech companies that have branded themselves “AI first” depend on heavily surveilled gig workers like data labelers, delivery drivers and content moderators. Startups are even hiring people to impersonate AI systems like chatbots, due to the pressure by venture capitalists to incorporate so-called AI into their products. In fact, London-based venture capital firm MMC Ventures surveyed 2,830 AI startups in the EU and found that 40% of them didn’t use AI in a meaningful way.

The Exploited Labor Behind Artificial Intelligence | NOEMA

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Araha is enjoyment; honor; the particular quality of one’s gender, manhood or womanhood; generosity; the savor of good food or wine.

Five Ways to Forgiveness

Ursula K. Le Guin

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