China’s Plans for Its Unemployed Youth: Send Them Away

What is China’s solution to a growing youth unemployment problem? Work in rural communities in what are still some of the poorest places in East Asia it seems. Xi Jinping himself famously spent 7 years ‘amongst the people’ a result of the purging of his father from a senior Party ranks during Mao’s Cultural Revolution, a period of life which, counterintuitively, seems to have convinced Xi of the merits of ‘real work’. Fascinating programme, have a listen here. H/T to brainfooder Bas van de Haterd (again!) for the share.

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It is hard to think of a more dramatic leadership change than Open AI’s sacking of Sam Altman. Apparently Microsoft - 40% shareholder in the company, but without a board seat due to the organisation’s strange governance structure - found out only minutes before everyone else did when the company blog made the announcement. Greg Brockman, President of Open AI, resigned in protest, no doubt triggering an exit of scientific and product building expertise from what only a week ago seemed an unstoppable machine driving forward GAI. Speculation fills the gap in information, so lets get a gauge from the community on what we think were the motivations behind this extraordinary move. Vote on the poll below and let me know in comments what you think happens next to OpenAI and GAI in general. Leave a commentThat’s it - thanks for readingHave a great week everybodyHung