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One spring, a friend called and asked my husband, our son, and me to be in a music video. It would be played at an upcoming awards show behind a relatively unknown band, MercyMe, as they sang a song that was climbing the charts, “I Can Only Imagine.” Sounds glamorous. But this wasn’t an invitation Read more. The post We Can Only Imagine. But Do We? appeared first on Christianity Today
Most of us have been reading headlines about the Strait of Hormuz, chokepoint for much of the world’s oil. Let’s talk about an intellectual strait likely to be the most significant epistemological shift in all of history. We are going from acquiring knowledge directly from primary human sources to acquiring knowledge indirectly from artificial intelligence. Read more. The post How to Survive the Intellectual Strait of Hormuz appeared first on Christianity Today
Here’s a solution to homelessness: Give every homeless person an apartment! But the past and present of this approach suggest its simplicity is not paired with the realism, prudence, or community that will truly help many who are homeless. Throughout much of the 20th century, compassionate Americans offered a basically consistent deal to homeless addicts Read more. The post No-Strings Housing for the Homeless Only Makes Sense on Paper appeared first on Christianity Today
a16z Partner Lisha Li sits down with AI researcher and Trillium founder Nathan Lambert to ask how durable the gap really is between frontier AI labs and open models. Nathan argues that OpenAI and Anthropic have structural advantages in compute, capital, and the ability to pioneer new training paradigms, but open-model labs, particularly in China, have proven remarkably capable of following close behind. They unpack how much of that comes from distillation versus technical talent, why compute ...