Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading - 3rd/4th June 2023
America has a loneliness epidemic. Here are 6 steps to address it by Juana Summers, Vincent Acovino, Christopher Intagliata, Patrick Wood
“In the last few decades, we've just lived through a dramatic pace of change. We move more, we change jobs more often, we are living with technology that has profoundly changed how we interact with each other and how we talk to each other...”
ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”! by Stephen Wolfram
“One particularly significant thing here is that ChatGPT isn’t just using us to do a “dead-end” operation like show the content of a webpage. Rather, we’re acting much more like a true “brain implant” for ChatGPT—where it asks us things whenever it needs to, and we give responses that it can weave back into whatever it’s doing. It’s rather impressive to see in action...”
Why universities are making us stupid by Adrian Pabst
“John Major’s government turned polytechnics into universities and oversaw the creation of what the Labour minister Margaret Hodge called “Mickey Mouse” degrees, from the “psychology of fashion” to “surf science”. Universities old and new were under pressure from the government to set up new courses. These gave neither a rigorous intellectual education nor proper vocational training.…”
Upcoming meals with 9others
Tuesday 20th June — Manchester — details and signup here.
Join us to celebrate the launch of 'Find your 9others' — Thursday June 29th — London — details and signup here
Please book in & share with good people you know in the above cities.