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Facebook and Twitter shutter pro-Trump network reaching 55 million accounts The accounts used AI-generated faces to ‘masquerade’ as Americans. The assault on democracy continues apace.
Questions worth asking And worth trying to answer. Like why is life expectancy in Hong Kong the highest in the world? From Tyler Cowen.
Total Surveillance Is Not What America Signed Up For Tell that to the tech companies. Terrific New York Times reporting.
On the Measure of Intelligence Interesting long paper by François Chollet, a prominent machine-learning scientist at Google, on future models of artificial intelligence, how we would define it, and what we might do next.