NYTimes: “A method nicknamed “Japanese walking” on social media — also known as interval walking training, or I.W.T. — seems to offer greater advantages than a simple stroll, or even than walking at a moderate pace for 8,000 or more steps a day…As the name suggests, interval walking is a form of interval training, which involves alternating between bursts of intense activity and more gentle movement or rest. In this case, it’s basically just alternating between fast and slow walking. But compared with more classic forms of high-intensity interval training, interval walking is more approachable for many people, especially those who haven’t exercised in a while or who are recovering from injuries that make high-impact activities like running difficult, said Dr. Carlin Senter, the chief of primary-care sports medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.”
WSJ: “Jonathan Roberts spent years studying dark matter and the origins of the universe. Now, he’s tackling another intractable problem: How to keep artificial-intelligence tools from cannibalizing the publishing industry. Publishers have faced declining traffic for years, but AI-powered search engines and chatbots are accelerating the demise of a business long reliant on clicks and ad revenue. As chief innovation officer at Barry Diller’s magazine publishing company People Inc., Roberts is charged with reimagining the media business for an AI era.”
FT: “[Philip K Dick’s] 1960s science-fiction visions are a guide to our age of erratic billionaires, wild space fantasies and glitchy, invasive technology.”
Arnold Kling: “Relative to the Web, AI is sterile. Those of us who do not work in the major labs are users, not contributors. AI progress consists of what takes place in the labs. To use another analogy from my 1990s era, imagine how little progress we would have made if, rather than the Internet, we would have been limited to America Online, Prodigy, and CompuServe. Until now, human progress has come from our collective brain. Individually, nobody knows how to make a pencil. But when we can cooperate, whether in small groups, large organizations, markets, or computer networks, we can expand knowledge in all sorts of directions.”
