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The republican theory of freedom is the idea that the most important kind of freedom is freedom from domination. It’s important for the Left talk about freedom in the first place. We see “freedom” invoked to defend everything from the right of corner gun shops to sell AR-15s without background checks to the right of chemical plants to dump toxic waste in rivers. Shouldn’t we instead ground our politics in alternative values like equality or the alleviation of suffering?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming economies and promising new opportunities for productivity, growth, and resilience. Countries across the world are also responding with national AI strategies to capitalize on these transformations. However, no country today has sufficient data on, or a targeted plan for, national AI compute capacity. This polity blind-spot may jeopardise domestic economic goals.

The German film "All Quiet on the Western Front'' won seven prizes, including best picture, at the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) on Sunday. This was expected as the anti-war theme of the film had its echo among the BAFTA members during the current raging war in Ukraine and the threats of using nuclear weapons by some powers.

There is no doubt that Artificial Intelligence (AI) boom is here, and so is the AI war, and all their consequences that may change our future more quickly than we can imagine now. It has just been reported that a single mistake by Google’s AI chatbot ‘Bard’ cost its parent company Alphabet $100 billion, and Microsoft has reinvented AI powered ‘Bing’ that is challenging Google’s dominance on the internet.

You have to hand it to people like Eran Kolirin. He’s the film director who in 2007 gave us The Band’s Visit, about an Egyptian military band that by some fluke managed to find itself in a sad, godforsaken Jewish desert town in Israel, whose residents unexpectedly were able to find some tentative connections with their guests that defied the reigning narrative of Arab-Jewish antipathy. Against all probability, the film was turned into a hope-filled Broadway musical.

Oscar nominations of films are not always a final indication of the super quality of a film.. This applies to The Banshees of Inisherinas .wel which has ben nominated for Oscar awards for 2023 to be announced on March 12 at Los Engeles. The film had big potential but the director and the script writer took the easier to make the theme popular instead of giving it a solid historical dimension.

A new advance in AI technology, leading to the development of OpenAI-created ChatGPT, is threatening to become the nemesis of data entry jobs, entry-level copywriting, customer care and support centres, and even entry-level software developers. ChatGPT promises to be a great tool for marketeers as it can produce highly effective pitches on its own, just as HR professionals can entrust it with a lot of their tasks. The new technology was made open to public only this year.

When M M Keeravani won the Golden Globe award for the best original song for S Rajamouli’s film RRR on January 11, he was fulfilling his destiny. As a 4-year—old in Kovvur, Andhra Pradesh, he had walked up to his father; Koduri Siva Shakti Dutta, and narrated a dream: “A divine being asked to open my mouth and stretch my tongue out. I did, and it placed a burning coal on my tongue.” Then, abruptly, the young Keeravani declared “I want to learn music.”

Julia Reichert, the Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker behind American Factory whose films explored themes of race, class, and gender, often in the Midwest, has died. She was 76.She died on December. 1 in Ohio from cancer, her family said through a representative. She was diagnosed with stage four urothelial cancer in April 2018.

Up until October, Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka, 47, was quite content living in the quiet life. Cocooned in his room at his Colombo home, surrounded by books and his stories, he’d at most of his day talking to no one apart from himself and his characters. He’s an involved husband and parent to kids and a freelance advertising professional, fitting writing into his life. It kept him only as busy as he likes. “it’s a good life, the usual life of a writer”, he says.