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I'm the chief digital writer for the Columbia Journalism Review

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I don't think I have ever gotten as much "engagement" from a post as I have from this one 🙂

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LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman interviews his digital twin, an avatar created by AI and trained on all of his books and other writing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgD2gmwCS10 (via @dweinberger

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One reason I'm skeptical of artificial intelligence is that we don't even understand human intelligence yet, and we've been working on that for hundreds of years. We barely even know how our own brains work -- and by "we" I mean brain scientists, not just regular people. How are we supposed to figure out whether a machine is intelligent?

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One other Dune 2 moment: At some point, Paul denies that he is the messiah, and Stilgar says something like " See? Only the messiah would deny he's the messiah!" This is almost word for word what they say in Monty Python's Life of Brian

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I think about or remember a scene from this movie probably once a day, or at least once a week https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/repo-man-oral-history-1984

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A lttr on my kyboard has stoppd working, can you guss which on it is? Only th most common lttr in th nglish languag

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New from me at CJR: The indictment of Florida journalist Timothy Burke raises troubling questions https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/tim-burke-florida-journalist-fbi-raid-indictment-mark-rasch-justice.php

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