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Quand on parle de la différence entre un chef de projet #ERP avec quelques années d'expérience et un autre avec deux décennies derrière lui, beaucoup pensent d'abord aux #outils maîtrisés, aux certifications accumulées, ou encore à la #méthodologie appliquée. Mais en réalité, ce n'est pas là que ça se joue. A lire : Presque 20 ans d'ERP : ce qu'on apprend à la longue

He now lives with my ex. :(

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China's top diplomat Wang Yi heads to Europe on Monday seeking a closer relationship that can provide an "anchor of stability" in the world and act as a counterweight to the United States [...] but deep frictions remain over both the economy – including a yawning trade deficit of $357.1 billion between China and the EU – and Beijing's continuing close ties with Russia despite Moscow's war in Ukraine.

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The war in Ukraine will likely be high on the agenda, with European leaders having been forthright in condemning what they see as Beijing's support of Moscow.

China has portrayed itself as a neutral party in Russia's more than three-year war with Ukraine.

But Western governments say Beijing's close ties have given Moscow crucial economic and diplomatic support, and they have urged China to do more to press Russia to end the war.

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Ties between Europe and China have also strained in recent years as the EU seeks to get tougher on what it says are unfair economic practices by Beijing.

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Tensions flared this month after the EU banned Chinese firms from government medical device purchases worth more than €5 million ($5.8 million) in retaliation for limits Beijing places on access to its own market.

The latest salvo in trade tensions between the 27-nation bloc and China covered a wide range of healthcare supplies, from surgical masks to X-ray machines, that represent a market worth €150 billion in the EU.

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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/54393323

(German, 1863-1906)

Sophie Sperlich was a well-known artist in Munich, her home town. Although not much information is available about her, she was a popular artist painting both dogs and cats. Her paintings are in the same style as those of Julius Adam and Henriette Ronner-Knip. Many of her works were used as postcard illustrations.

More cats: https://artvee.com/artist/sophie-sperlich/

We are constantly fed a version of AI that looks, sounds and acts suspiciously like us. It speaks in polished sentences, mimics emotions, expresses curiosity, claims to feel compassion, even dabbles in what it calls creativity.

But what we call AI today is nothing more than a statistical machine: a digital parrot regurgitating patterns mined from oceans of human data (the situation hasn’t changed much since it was discussed here five years ago). When it writes an answer to a question, it literally just guesses which letter and word will come next in a sequence – based on the data it’s been trained on.

This means AI has no understanding. No consciousness. No knowledge in any real, human sense. Just pure probability-driven, engineered brilliance — nothing more, and nothing less.

So why is a real “thinking” AI likely impossible? Because it’s bodiless. It has no senses, no flesh, no nerves, no pain, no pleasure. It doesn’t hunger, desire or fear. And because there is no cognition — not a shred — there’s a fundamental gap between the data it consumes (data born out of human feelings and experience) and what it can do with them.

Philosopher David Chalmers calls the mysterious mechanism underlying the relationship between our physical body and consciousness the “hard problem of consciousness”. Eminent scientists have recently hypothesised that consciousness actually emerges from the integration of internal, mental states with sensory representations (such as changes in heart rate, sweating and much more).

Given the paramount importance of the human senses and emotion for consciousness to “happen”, there is a profound and probably irreconcilable disconnect between general AI, the machine, and consciousness, a human phenomenon.

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"Every word I once wrote has come back to haunt me," posted a writer who says she was arrested for "obscene" work.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c056nle2drno

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