I cannot emphasize this enough: baseball is the greatest sport on Earth.
Both of these were favorites of mine!
One thing did certain. Racism is an international pastime. I was standing in line to go through customs in Sydney this morning. This cop and drug sniffing dog were walking up and down the aisle. Normal stuff. The cop passed me then came back, patted my leg and told the dog to sniff me.
We get unconscious bias baked into the technologies that run our world. Self driving cars that can't see short people or dark skinned people. Faucets that don't turn on for dark skinned people. Algorithms that punish people who live in the wrong zip code. We need diverse voices in the room.
I want to be explicit. MIT likely is the first of many we'll hear about this fall. Engineering, CS, and other STEM fields often have competitive enrollment, for which race used to be one of many factors. We need a critical mass in these fields to ensure all voices are heard. Without that we get..
I’m going to keep repeating this: ChatGPT was designed to do the impressive feat of making a computer produce a natural sounding response to a question (or other prompt). It was not designed to provide factual answers to questions.
My mother in law has has this almost happen with handmade quilts twice - they showed as delivered, weren't, then arrived 2 days later.