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- Wimbledon 2022. Day 5 Jamie and Venus give a masterclass in mixed doubles
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Friday of the first week is where the Wimbledon tournament approaches its crunch point for seeding shocks. Who will survive to make the second week, with prize money already enough to change the fortunes of the unseeded players ?
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6 min - Wimbledon 2022 Day 4 The Brits bite back
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Wimbledon 2022. Thursday June 30th. A fascinating day's play with British prospects weakened by the losses yesterday.
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5 min - Wimbledon 2022. Day 1 The magic begins
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Wimbledon fortnight in June attracts millions of tennis fans to what is billed as the greatest tennis tournament in the world. This year, events have resulted in it losing its usual grand slam status. But the magic remains, as tennis author and commentator Tudor Rickards explains.
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3 min - Wimbledon 2022 Day 3 Emma and Andy bow out
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Wimbledon 2022 sees British singles hopes dashed, as Emma Raducanu and Andy Murray are knocked out of the tournament.
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4 min - Wimbledon 2022 Day 2. Serena and Nadal
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Day 2 sees British triumphs and disasters. But the day is dominated by Raphael Nadal and Serena Williams
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6 min - You can't be serious
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Wimbledon fortnight arrives. Tudor looks back at the momentous days of John McEnroe with the help of George Grime, the umpire who bore the brunt of some of McEnroe's outbursts.
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6 min - The overturning of the Roe Wade Abortion ruling drags the United States back to their earlier battles over human rights.
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And for conservative politicians, this is only the first one step to criminalisation of abortion as homicide, and reintroduction of the death penalty for millions of child killers.
Every politician dreams about leaving a legacy. President Trump is basking in his success in overthrowing Roe Wade even if his battle at the Capitol was narrowly defeated.
The machinations in the appointment of the morally dubious Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court were a foretaste of dangers ahead.- Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!
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3 min - Contemplating Comedy
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Contemplating Comedy by Jonathan Levitt. Book Review
Johnathan Levitt is a chess grandmaster who turned his hand to book-publishing during the Covid lockdown.
Tudor examines the book and tries out the author's approach of providing a set of comic quotes, then commenting on them.
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8 min - Has Google created a sentient chatbot? The silence of the LaMDA
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Has Google created a sentient chatbot?
If this were April Fool’s day I would sniff ‘gotcha’. Another Guardian joke. But it isn’t April Fool’s day and the story is about a Google engineer Blake Lemoine. Blake has been placed on leave from Google for his actions promoting the rights of the company’s chatbot LaMDA. It’s name is short for ‘Language model for dialog application’. He had reached the conclusion that in its actions, LaMDA demonstrates evidence of sentience. In his own words ‘if I didn’t know exactly what it was … I’d think it was a seven year old, eight year old kid that happens to know physics’
His conclusion sounds like evidence drawing on the well-known Turing’s test for human behaviour, which is used to differentiate it from machine outputs or artificial intelligence. The Turing test examines the interactions between an observer and a response generated either by a human or a computer programme. If the observing human is unable to detect evidence of non-human responses, the programme is considered to pass the test.
But Turing’s approach has been challenged as a means of exploring human intelligence. A significant objection has been raised by the work of the American philosopher John Searle. Searle has written comprehensively on artificial intelligence, including his own thought experiment, the Chinese box test. The approach has similarities with that of Turing’s, involving an observer, and an intelligence simulator assessing outputs for evidence of sentience, the philosophical go-to of AI discourse.
Aging IT buffs may also remember the stir caused by one of first interactive computer programs known as ELIZA. ELIZA is not a mnemonic but was mischievously named after Eliza Doolittle by its inventor Joseph Wiezenbaum, one of the pioneering figures of Artificial Intelligence in the 1960s.
Weizenbaum set out to illustrate how a computer program could mimic human behaviour without consciousness. In its most famous demonstration, Eliza was programmed to reflect back the statements of the human user in the style of a psychoanalyst.
The unexpected consequences were the reactions of one user which were not unlike those of Blake Lemoine. Weizenbaum’s own secretary became convinced the messages were therapeutic and coming from a skilled psychoanalyst.- Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!
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6 min - Sue Barker quits the BBC to join dynamic young organisation TudoRama
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After the news of Sue Barker’s departure from the BBC commentating team at the Wimbledon championships, we can reveal she will be joining the TudoRama crack squad of news reporters. She will specialise in tennis, but is expected to branch out into the forthcoming series: A question of spurt, sponsored by Spurtulike the leading fire extinguisher brand.
We interviewed Sue Barker, but as audio contracts have not yet been completed, her interview is reconstructed by one of our audio replication artists.- Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!
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About TudoRama
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TudoRama explores the nature and practice of creativity in the arts, sciences, politics and above all in everyday life. Tudor Rickards is Emeritus Professor of Creativity and Organizational Change at…
the University of Manchester. Tudor studied chemistry and radiation chemistry at The University of Wales at Cardiff. Following post-doctoral research at New York Medical College, he returned to the UK to work in technical management before joining Manchester Business School. He has published numerous books and articles on creativity, sporting management and leadership, as well as fictional works involving the mythical University of Urmston. He has been influential in the development of creativity-related projects in Europe, including the European Association for Creativity and Innovation (EACI), and was co-founder (with Susan Moger) of the journal Creativity and Innovation Management. He is also author of detective stories centred around the fictional University of Urmston, and a nearby chess club which houses a top-secret government surveillance operation. His recent switch to podcasting reaches out to a wider general audience interested in current affairs, and the processes of creativity previously described in his lectures, blogposts, and textbooks.