Using subtitles in films and TV substantially improves English proficiency relative to dubbing them, finds paper
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Noticed this when I was a kid on holiday. Kids from countries that didn’t dub English language cartoons all spoke excellent English.
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Big news: Douglas Hofstadter, a legendary scholar and famous AI skeptic, changed his mind:
"I think [AI progress] is terrifying. I hate it. I think about it practically all the time, every single day.”
“It feels as if the entire human race is about to be eclipsed and left in…Show more
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Liron Shapira
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Doug Hofstadter, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach and I Am a Strange Loop, is an AI doomer.
Hofstadter was previously known for being dismissive of the potential of artificial neural networks & deep learning.
Recent AI progress has apparently sparked a major change in his outlook.
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