If simple words like “temporary” don’t mean what everyone knows they mean, democracy is screwed

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In 1990, Congress established a program for refugees that needed temporary relief, but somehow, almost no one admitted under the program ever left, the number admitted increased ten times in the past nine years, and proponents are now insisting they never should. In principle, I’m a supporter of the Temporary Protected Status program, which allows… Continue reading If simple words like “temporary” don’t mean what everyone knows they mean, democracy is screwed

No, AI cannot translate animal sounds into human speech because animals don’t freaking talk

For some reason, the experts are claiming we can translate animal speech that doesn’t really exist in the same sense as human speech, and they are proposing to do so with only half the necessary data, the sounds alone without the show, so to speak. Late last year, the Coller Dolittle Prize announced that researchers… Continue reading No, AI cannot translate animal sounds into human speech because animals don’t freaking talk