[Link] Meta researchers create AI that masters Diplomacy, tricking human players

Read: 23/11/2022 arstechnica.com

On Tuesday, Meta AI announced the development of Cicero, which it claims is the first AI to achieve human-level performance in the strategic board game Diplomacy.

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[Link] Crows Perform Yet Another Skill Once Thought Distinctively Human

Read: 23/11/2022 www.scientificamerican.com

Crows are some of the smartest creatures in the animal kingdom. They are capable of making rule-guided decisions and of creating and using tools. They also appear to show an innate sense of what numbers are.

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[Link] Why isn't the census translated into languages other than English?

Read: 9/8/2021 www.abc.net.au

Back in Shanghai, Xueli Zhao was a hospital doctor. Now living alone in a public housing flat in Melbourne's inner-east, 84-year-old Dr Zhao relies heavily on her children to communicate with various authorities as she is lacking English language skills.

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[Link] Why the French Don’t Show Excitement

Read: 8/8/2021 getpocket.com

Not only is ‘Je suis excité’ not the appropriate way to convey excitement in French, but there seems to be no real way to express it at all.

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[Link] Data isn’t oil, whatever tech commentators tell you: it’s people’s lives

Read: 2/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

The phrase “data is the new oil” is the cliche du jour of the tech industry. It was coined by Clive Humby, the genius behind Tesco’s loyalty card, who argued that data was “just like crude. It’s valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used.

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