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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

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And mind you, they weren't all women who wanted to be journalists. We so often are willing to give and give and give, and our own bodies or our own state of mind is the last thing. They're coming from Nepal, the Philippines, and Bolivia. So, we started this program. Last year we piloted it, in 2009. It's just accessible.

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OpenAI’s latest breakthrough is astonishingly powerful, but still fighting its flaws

The Verge

The program itself is called GPT-3 and it’s the work of San Francisco-based AI lab OpenAI, an outfit that was founded with the ambitious (some say delusional) goal of steering the development of artificial general intelligence or AGI: computer programs that possess all the depth, variety, and flexibility of the human mind. So far, so simple.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

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PG: I think that the one that comes to mind first is a wonderful picture of women in Kenya who are growing corn. It is very different to interview sex workers who have been trafficked in Phnom Penh, than to interview women who are doing knitting in Bolivia. The women are using those forms that are the most effective in their cultures.

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ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

TechCrunch

Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us? The letter reads: Contemporary AI systems are now becoming human-competitive at general tasks,[3] and we must ask ourselves: Should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth?

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What ‘The Social Dilemma’ misunderstands about social networks

The Verge

Instead, they twist and exploit the open internet’s positive ability to connect like-minded people. And she found what she described as coordinated influence campaigns in countries including India, Ukraine and Bolivia. These sites aren’t primarily driven by algorithms or profit motives.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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I think my favorite example of that is a women's group from the highlands of Bolivia who wrote to us maybe seven or eight years ago. They were a group of illiterate women who dictated their requests to a priest in the village, who then hand wrote the request.

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