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Martín Burt’s Best Kept Secret

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

So I was recently taken by surprise when I discovered by mere coincidence that he had become the Chief of Staff for the Interim President of Paraguay, Federico Franco! It was a daring venture: Paraguay was then still under a military dictatorship and it was extremely difficult to advance social work. and Africa.

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

The Verge

What makes GPT-3 amazing, they say, is not that it can tell you that the capital of Paraguay is Asunción (it is) or that 466 times 23.5 If computers can teach themselves, what more is needed? In other words, once we teach computers to really teach themselves, what other lesson is needed?

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