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• Why It’s Important (And Difficult) For Computers To Learn Common Sense

  06-04-2022 23:31 via newyorker.com
  
  For certain kinds of tasks—playing chess, detecting tumors—artificial intelligence can rival or surpass human thinking. But the broader world presents endless unforeseen circumstances, and there A.I. often stumbles. – The New Yorker
  
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• 14-year-old art sensation Xeo Chu: ‘I kind of keep it hidden from friends’

  06-04-2022 11:40
  
  The young Vietnamese artist gets compared to Jackson Pollock and his pictures sell for $150,000 and up. But as his first solo London show opens, he talks about the future, donating to charity and the fact that he’s ‘just a kid’When Xeo Chu was four, he had a figurative period. “Ears are very difficult to do,” the 14-year-old Vietnamese art prodigy tells me at his first solo exhibition in London, as we examine his first painting, a portrait of his mother.Nguyen Thi T
  
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• Raphael review – the Renaissance master who made saints and virgins glow

  06-04-2022 01:00
  
  National Gallery, London
  This glorious show suggests that the painter’s adoring Madonnas are more than just geometric wonders – they contain memories of his own lost motherIf you wanted a great portrait in early 16th-century Italy, or a few rooms filling with frescoes, or even a bathroom doing, Raphael was your artist – ahead of his contemporaries Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. He could paint with as much authority as Leonardo, but without the long delays and distractions
  
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