Persivilience
Rory Stewart: “The reason we have so many people not in work [in the UK] is that work in Britain is often less dignified, longer hours, more poorly paid and in worse and more demoralizing conditions than in other European countries and that addressing this problem of getting people off benefits and into work is partly about increasing the quality of the work that we offer people compared to other countries.”
From the NYT: “Part of what’s so confusing about A.I. progress these days is how jagged it is. We have A.I. models capable of diagnosing diseases more effectively than human doctors, winning silver medals at the International Math Olympiad and beating top human programmers on competitive coding challenges. But these same models sometimes struggle with basic tasks, like arithmetic or writing metered poetry. That has given them a reputation as astoundingly brilliant at some things and totally useless at others, and it has created vastly different impressions of how fast A.I. is improving, depending on whether you’re looking at the best or the worst outputs.”
