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This is the new Manchester United era of happy accidents being overseen by Michael Carrick and helped by confusing officiating as they edged past Nottingham Forest. If it was not for a lack of obvious options five months ago, United and Carrick may not have been reunited, nor would they be third in the Premier League and heading back to the Champions League, on the day Bruno Fernandes equalled the all-time Premier League assist record.
Carrick has a two-year contract on the table and cannot require too much mulling over. The improving Old Trafford atmosphere was further boosted after the final home game being won partly thanks to a bizarre decision by Michael Salisbury to allow a Matheus Cunha goal to stand, on account of Bryan Mbeumo’s clear handball in the buildup being “accidental”, much to the confusion of everyone without a whistle.
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Bradley Lowery, the Sunderland mascot whose battle with neuroblastoma helped raise than more £1m before his death in 2017, would have been 15 today. There will be a minute’s applause at Hill Dickinson Stadium after 15 minutes of today’s game, and two fans – one of each club – have cycled to the ground from the Stadium of Light to raise funds for the Bradley Lowery Foundation. Hats off to them.
Two more goals have been scored in a thrilling end-of-a-season game at Old Trafford, and Bruno Fernandes has equalled a major Premier League record. Clickity click click click!
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Radiohead-gitarist Jonny Greenwood was te gast in de NTR ZaterdagMatinee met een nieuw vioolconcert, net als zijn collega gitarist-componist Aart Strootman. Ondanks de aantrekkelijke opzet op het grensvlak tussen pop en klassiek overtuigde de middag niet helemaal.
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NÜRBURGRING (ANP) - Max Verstappen heeft door autoproblemen genoegen moeten nemen met de 38e plaats bij de 24 uur van de Nürburgring. De Mercedes-AMG GT3 van het team van de Nederlander ging aan de leiding met nog ruim drie uur te gaan, maar moest daarna de pits opzoeken.
Verstappen had tijdens zijn stint op zondagochtend de voorsprong van zijn team op nummer 2 Mercedes-AMG Team Ravenol uitgebouwd, waarna hij rond 11.00 uur het stuur overgaf aan zijn teamgenoot Daniel Juncadella. De Spanjaard ondervond al snel technische problemen. Na een lange periode in de garage keerde Juncadella nog even terug op het circuit om de race rijdend af te sluiten. De Mercedes-AMG Team Ravenol won de race.
Verstappen had in de eerste 21 uur indruk gemaakt met een paar uitstekende stints, waarin hij meerdere keren de leiding had veroverd. De Oostenrijker Lucas Auer en Jules Gounon uit Andorra waren de andere teamgenoten van de Nederlandse viervoudig wereldkampioen in de Formule 1.
Het is rust op de Nederlandse velden. Bij de derby tussen Sparta en Excelsior leidt de bezoekende partij door een eigen doelpunt van Giannino Vianello. Feyenoord gaat doelpuntloos rusten in Zwolle.
Henry Farrell & Cosma Rohilla Shalizi: AI as Social Technology
"In the rest of this paper, we briefly situate AI in the historic context of the Long Industrial Revolution. Next, we explore the relationship between social technologies and coarse-grainings or abstractions, emphasizing their lossiness and consequences for power relations between different social groups. That allows us both to describe the apparent strengths and limits of actually-existing AI and start applying Simon's ideas to the intersection between AI and bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is a crucial, ancient social technology which played a central role in Simon's work. Its relationship to AI is urgently topical: claims about AGI were seemingly one influence on the Trump administration's sweeping cutbacks to the administrative state. We contrast these ideas with our own, to draw out the many important questions and problems that are elided or ignored by AGI-fueled speculation. Rather than expecting AGI to resolve perennial problems of human social organization, we should treat AI as a new social technology which will alleviate some problems, exacerbate others, and create new ones, just as other social technologies have done in the past. That, in turn, suggests the urgency of cooperation between social and computer scientists to figure out its social consequences, and broader social and political coordination too, of the kind that happened in previous stages of the Long Industrial Revolution."
"In the rest of this paper, we briefly situate AI in the historic context of the Long Industrial Revolution. Next, we explore the relationship between social technologies and coarse-grainings or abstractions, emphasizing their lossiness and consequences for power relations between different social groups. That allows us both to describe the apparent strengths and limits of actually-existing AI and start applying Simon's ideas to the intersection between AI and bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is a crucial, ancient social technology which played a central role in Simon's work. Its relationship to AI is urgently topical: claims about AGI were seemingly one influence on the Trump administration's sweeping cutbacks to the administrative state. We contrast these ideas with our own, to draw out the many important questions and problems that are elided or ignored by AGI-fueled speculation. Rather than expecting AGI to resolve perennial problems of human social organization, we should treat AI as a new social technology which will alleviate some problems, exacerbate others, and create new ones, just as other social technologies have done in the past. That, in turn, suggests the urgency of cooperation between social and computer scientists to figure out its social consequences, and broader social and political coordination too, of the kind that happened in previous stages of the Long Industrial Revolution."