Noam Chomsky

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The False Promise of ChatGPT

ReflexionesNuevas Tecnologías

Jorge Luis Borges once wrote that to live in a time of great peril and promise is to experience both tragedy and comedy, with “the imminence of a revelation” in understanding ourselves and the world. Today our supposedly revolutionary advancements in artificial intelligence are indeed cause for both concern and optimism. Optimism because intelligence is the means by which we solve problems. Concern because we fear that the most popular and fashionable strain of A.I. — machine learning — will degrade our science and debase our ethics by incorporating into our technology a fundamentally flawed conception of language and knowledge.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard and Microsoft’s Sydney are marvels of machine learning.…  Seguir leyendo »

La jueza María Lourdes Afiuni, junto a su hermano Nelson Afiuni, habla con los medios en Caracas el 5 de julio de 2019. Credit Adriana Loureiro/Reuters

MundoAmérica,

El 5 de julio, Día de la Independencia de Venezuela, llegó con una gran noticia para todos aquellos que esperan lo mejor para el futuro del país: Michelle Bachelet, la alta comisionada de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos, anunció que la jueza María Lourdes Afiuni había sido liberada del régimen de presentación después de casi diez años de confinamiento. Sin embargo, su liberación llegó con condiciones: el juez a cargo de su caso estableció restricciones que le impiden viajar al extranjero y limitan su libertad de expresión. La jueza Afiuni fue liberada junto con un periodista, Braulio Jatar, y otros veinte presos políticos.…  Seguir leyendo »

a Syrian man rests in the northwestern Syrian city of Afrin on March 31, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Nazeer al-Khatib (Photo credit should read NAZEER AL-KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)

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When Raqqa fell in 2017, after a long siege by the US-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), it was generally thought that ISIS was defeated, save for some mopping up. But in January of this year, Turkey invaded Afrin—one of three cantons in Rojava, also called the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria. This meant that scores of SDF fighters had to leave the battle against ISIS in order to defend their homes, families, and neighbors in Afrin. After extensive air strikes, the city of Afrin fell on March 18—confronting the already troubled region with yet another humanitarian crisis, as thousands fled to escape the Turkish army and its Syrian National Army allies (which include jihadist rebel groups and some fighters who are either openly aligned with al-Qaeda or even recent members of ISIS).…  Seguir leyendo »

Noam Chomsky Credit Uli Deck/picture-alliance/dpa/Associated Press

MundoAmérica

En los últimos meses, mientras la perturbadora posibilidad de una administración Trump se convertía en una perturbadora realidad, decidí contactar a Noam Chomsky, el filósofo cuya escritura, opiniones y activismo nos han dado incomparables reflexiones y cuestionamientos sobre los sistemas políticos mundiales y estadounidense desde hace más de cincuenta años. Nuestra charla, como se transcribe aquí, se desarrolló a través de una serie de intercambios de correos electrónicos a lo largo de los últimos dos meses.

George Yancy: En este momento político de la posverdad y dado el creciente autoritarismo del que estamos siendo testigos en el gobierno de Trump, ¿qué papel público crees que la filosofía profesional puede desempeñar al abordar esta situación de manera crítica?…  Seguir leyendo »

Europa, ,

Les journalistes sont les « chiens de garde de la démocratie », selon la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme. Qui veut contrôler un pays sans être confronté aux critiques tente de museler les reporters. Le président turc, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, est malheureusement passé maître pour étouffer les aboiements de la liberté. Tandis que des journalistes du monde entier affluent à Antalya pour couvrir le sommet du G20, nombre de leurs collègues turcs ne sont pas accrédités. Boycotter les médias d’opposition est devenu une habitude dans ce pays, 149e sur 180 au dernier classement mondial de la liberté de la presse publié par Reporters sans frontières.…  Seguir leyendo »

InternacionalTerrorismo Internacional

After the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo, which killed 12 people including the editor and four other cartoonists, and the murder of four Jews at a kosher supermarket shortly after, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls declared "a war against terrorism, against jihadism, against radical Islam, against everything that is aimed at breaking fraternity, freedom, solidarity."

Millions of people demonstrated in condemnation of the atrocities, amplified by a chorus of horror under the banner "I am Charlie." There were eloquent pronouncements of outrage, captured well by the head of Israel's Labor Party and the main challenger for the upcoming elections, Isaac Herzog, who declared that "Terrorism is terrorism.…  Seguir leyendo »

ReflexionesIslam y Mundo Árabe

'The Arab world is on fire," al-Jazeera reported last week, while throughout the region, western allies "are quickly losing their influence". The shock wave was set in motion by the dramatic uprising in Tunisia that drove out a western-backed dictator, with reverberations especially in Egypt, where demonstrators overwhelmed a dictator's brutal police.

Observers compared it to the toppling of Russian domains in 1989, but there are important differences. Crucially, no Mikhail Gorbachev exists among the great powers that support the Arab dictators. Rather, Washington and its allies keep to the well-established principle that democracy is acceptable only insofar as it conforms to strategic and economic objectives: fine in enemy territory (up to a point), but not in our backyard, please, unless properly tamed.…  Seguir leyendo »

MundoOriente Próximo,

La muerte de una nación es un episodio raro y sombrío. Pero la visión de una Palestina unificada, independiente, amenaza ser otra baja de la guerra civil entre Hamas y Al Fatah, cuyo fuego atizan Israel y Estados Unidos, el aliado que posibilita las cosas. El caos del mes pasado puede marcar el comienzo del fin de la Autoridad Nacional Palestina (ANP). Éste podría ser un desarrollo no totalmente desafortunado para los palestinos, teniendo en cuenta las intenciones de EE. UU. e Israel de convertir a la ANP en un régimen al estilo Quisling encargado de supervisar el absoluto rechazo a un Estado independiente por parte de esos aliados.…  Seguir leyendo »

MundoOriente Próximo

In the energy-rich Middle East, only two countries have failed to subordinate themselves to Washington's basic demands: Iran and Syria. Accordingly both are enemies, Iran by far the more important. As was the norm during the cold war, resort to violence is regularly justified as a reaction to the malign influence of the main enemy, often on the flimsiest of pretexts. Unsurprisingly, as Bush sends more troops to Iraq, tales surface of Iranian interference in the internal affairs of Iraq - a country otherwise free from any foreign interference - on the tacit assumption that Washington rules the world.

In the cold war-like mentality in Washington, Tehran is portrayed as the pinnacle in the so-called Shia crescent that stretches from Iran to Hizbullah in Lebanon, through Shia southern Iraq and Syria.…  Seguir leyendo »