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Fernando Pessoa – Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” Às vezes ouço passar o vento; e só de ouvir o vento passar, vale a pena ter nascido.

 

Fernando Pessoa.

Nota: Adaptação de trecho do poema de Fernando Pessoa

https://www.pensador.com

 

Marii Freire

https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

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Santarém, Pá 15 de dezembro de 2023

Source: Fernando Pessoa – Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

David Wallace-Wells: The Headlines Are Wrong! U.S. Students Outperformed Their Peers in Rest of World on PISA Test | Diane Ravitch’s blog

…The performance looks even stronger once you get into the weeds a bit. In reading, the average U.S. score dropped just one point from 505 in 2018 to just 504 in 2022. Across the rest of the O.E.C.D., the average loss was 11 times as large. In Germany, which looked early in the pandemic to have mounted an enviable good-government response, the average reading score fell 18 points; in Britain, the country most often compared with the United States, it fell 10 points. In Iceland, which had, by many metrics, the best pandemic performance in Europe, it fell 38 points. In Sweden, the darling of mitigation skeptics, it fell 19 points…

Source: David Wallace-Wells: The Headlines Are Wrong! U.S. Students Outperformed Their Peers in Rest of World on PISA Test | Diane Ravitch’s blog

How Microsoft’s AI chatbot ‘hallucinates’ election information

…A study from two European NGOs has found that Microsoft’s chatbot — Bing AI (running on OpenAI’s GPT-4) — gave incorrect answers to one third of questions about elections in Germany and Switzerland.

The study was conducted by Algorithm Watch and AI Forensics. The organisations said they prompted the chatbot with questions relating to candidates, polling and voting information, as well as more open recommendation requests on who to vote for when concerned with specific subjects, such as the environment…

Source: How Microsoft’s AI chatbot ‘hallucinates’ election information