The paper, published last month in the peer-reviewed AI Magazine, is a fascinating one that tries to think through how artificial intelligence could pose an existential risk to humanity by looking at how reward systems might be artificially constructed. - Vice
"The prompter is invisible to the audience, and he may be only one person among the roughly 250-strong cast and crew, but he plays a major role in keeping everything from flying off the rails." Meet Matthew Piatt, San Francisco Opera's prompter for John Adams's Antony and Cleopatra. - NPR
"Preserving the rhythm, the sound, and the sensibility of the original musical while translating its dense libretto into a language characterized by multisyllabic compound nouns and sentences that often end with verbs, and all in a society that has minimal familiarity with the show's subject matter." - The New York Times
For instance, Alexander Hamilton in "The World Was Wide Enough" —
English: "America, you great unfinished symphony, you sent for me."
German: "America, durch deine Brust pumpt Sklavenblut, Moral und Wut."
("America, through your breast is pounding the blood of slaves, morality and rage.")
- The New York Times
"If anyone could figure out how to synergize the creativity of a city dominated by film and television yet overflowing with theatrical ingenuity, ... it would be Shakman. But the demands of theater aren't easily contained, and an artistic director needs to be on hand." - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
As "Reagan", one of the group's leaders, tells a carful of potential patrons, "We do want to dance. We love it in there. We're fighting for safer working conditions," pushing to unionize with Equity. Then she invited the guys to come dance with them on the picket line. - NPR
When the city commissioned a permanent version of Wesley Wofford's traveling Tubman statue, objectors demanded the commission go to a Philadelphia artist of color instead. But the city's new RFP calls for a statue of Tubman "or another African American's contribution to our nation's history." - The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Notwithstanding her many roles in a wide range of Hollywood, international and Greek films, including The Guns of Navarone (1961), Zorba the Greek (1964) and Z (1969), Papas always gave the impression that there was an Electra, Antigone or Clytemnestra bubbling beneath the surface." - The Guardian
Museums must be disentangled from national and corporate interests that guide narratives and reproduce dominant social norms. Structural transformation is needed which involves more diverse staff, especially in senior and executive positions. - The Conversation
It "was meant as reference, but also to be savoured. The 11th edition of Britannica (1929) featured Cecil B. DeMille on motion pictures and J.B. Priestley on English literature. It was ‘plausible, reasonable, unruffled, often reserved and completely authoritative’. And sometimes plain wrong. - The Spectator
The new online hub at sfopera.com/firstcentury features recordings from the company’s past, along with rare artist interviews, archival photographs, program articles, oral history excerpts and newly captured conversations among past and present San Francisco Opera creative luminaries. - Gramilano
When we speak of adored artists, we often flash on the first time we encountered their work, a tendency that evokes first love. I was in college when I saw my first Godard film, “Every Man for Himself” (1980), widely considered a return to form. - The New York Times
“This important claim will represent a class of victims of Google’s anti-competitive conduct in ad tech who have collectively lost an estimated £7bn. This includes news websites up and down the country with large daily readerships as well as the thousands of small business owners who depend on advertising revenue." - The Guardian
British philosophers from the 18th century, who were fixated on impressions and ideas, would have taken successful conversations to be those that moved the relevant cluster of ideas from one conversant’s head to another’s. - Psyche
The movie, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (or DDLJ), is about two Indian expats in London: she more traditional, he a Westernized playboy. The musical (directed by the film's director) makes them Harvard students and him WASP. Is that a whitewash? Or a more telling clash of cultures? - The New York Times
