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“It’s an escalation of a kind that is unheard of,” said Joan Scott, a historian and member of the academic freedom committee of the American Association of University Professors. “Even during the #McCarthy period in the United States, this was not done.”

Trump #intervention at #Columbia alarms defenders of #academic #freedom | AP News

apnews.com/article/columbia-un

Using a tactical vehicle, New York City police enter an upper floor of Hamilton Hall on the Columbia University campus in New York, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, after the building was taken over by protesters earlier in the day. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)
AP News · Trump administration demands Columbia overhaul academic courses in extraordinary ultimatumBy Jake Offenhartz

#Trump demands unprecedented control at #ColumbiaUniversity, alarming scholars and speech groups

By COLLIN BINKLEY and JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 7:52 PM EDT, March 14, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — "The Trump administration brushed aside decades of precedent when it ordered Columbia University to oust the leadership of an academic department, a demand seen as a direct attack on academic freedom and a warning of what’s to come for other colleges facing federal scrutiny.

"Federal officials told the university it must immediately place its #MiddleEasternStudies, #SouthAsianStudies, and #AfricanStudies Department under 'academic receivership for a minimum of five years.' The demand was among several described as conditions for receiving federal funding, including $400 million already pulled over allegations of #antisemitism.

"Across #academia, it was seen as a stunning intrusion.

"'It’s an escalation of a kind that is unheard of,' said Joan Scott, a historian and member of the academic freedom committee of the American Association of University Professors [#AAUP]. 'Even during the #McCarthy period in the United States, this was not done.'"

apnews.com/article/columbia-un
#CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol #Censorship #DumbingUsDown #Authoritarianism #SilencingDissent #AcademicFreedom #Fascism

Using a tactical vehicle, New York City police enter an upper floor of Hamilton Hall on the Columbia University campus in New York, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, after the building was taken over by protesters earlier in the day. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)
AP News · Trump administration demands Columbia overhaul academic courses in extraordinary ultimatumBy Jake Offenhartz
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@georgetakei

The #McCarthy - #Era will be a "Walk in the Park" against these #brainwashed #Trump-#Zombies, cleaning the #Authorities from #Adversaries. This weakens by the Way the Security in every thinkable Form and strengthens the Will for #Whistleblowers
and #Sabotage from within. You can't find so many Trump loyal People, to control such big #Entities like #FBI, #NSA and #CIA. They rip them apart, but this will cause a lot of #Trouble. Does anyone respect #PamBondi ? It's a #Joke.

Pequeños y grandes pasos hacia el imperio de la inteligencia artificial

Fuente: Open Tech

Traducción de la infografía:

  • 1943 – McCullock y Pitts publican un artículo titulado Un cálculo lógico de ideas inmanentes en la actividad nerviosa, en el que proponen las bases para las redes neuronales.
  • 1950 – Turing publica Computing Machinery and Intelligence, proponiendo el Test de Turing como forma de medir la capacidad de una máquina.
  • 1951 – Marvin Minsky y Dean Edmonds construyen SNAR, la primera computadora de red neuronal.
  • 1956 – Se celebra la Conferencia de Dartmouth (organizada por McCarthy, Minsky, Rochester y Shannon), que marca el nacimiento de la IA como campo de estudio.
  • 1957 – Rosenblatt desarrolla el Perceptrón: la primera red neuronal artificial capaz de aprender.

(!!) Test de Turing: donde un evaluador humano entabla una conversación en lenguaje natural con una máquina y un humano.

  • 1965 – Weizenbaum desarrolla ELIZA: un programa de procesamiento del lenguaje natural que simula una conversación.
  • 1967 – Newell y Simon desarrollan el Solucionador General de Problemas (GPS), uno de los primeros programas de IA que demuestra una capacidad de resolución de problemas similar a la humana.
  • 1974 – Comienza el primer invierno de la IA, marcado por una disminución de la financiación y del interés en la investigación en IA debido a expectativas poco realistas y a un progreso limitado.
  • 1980 – Los sistemas expertos ganan popularidad y las empresas los utilizan para realizar previsiones financieras y diagnósticos médicos.
  • 1986 – Hinton, Rumelhart y Williams publican Aprendizaje de representaciones mediante retropropagación de errores, que permite entrenar redes neuronales mucho más profundas.

(!!) Redes neuronales: modelos de aprendizaje automático que imitan el cerebro y aprenden a reconocer patrones y hacer predicciones a través de conexiones neuronales artificiales.

  • 1997 – Deep Blue de IBM derrota al campeón mundial de ajedrez Kasparov, siendo la primera vez que una computadora vence a un campeón mundial en un juego complejo.
  • 2002 – iRobot presenta Roomba, el primer robot aspirador doméstico producido en serie con un sistema de navegación impulsado por IA.
  • 2011 – Watson de IBM derrota a dos ex campeones de Jeopardy!.
  • 2012 – La startup de inteligencia artificial DeepMind desarrolla una red neuronal profunda que puede reconocer gatos en vídeos de YouTube.
  • 2014 – Facebook crea DeepFace, un sistema de reconocimiento facial que puede reconocer rostros con una precisión casi humana.

(!!) DeepMind fue adquirida por Google en 2014 por 500 millones de dólares.

  • 2015 – AlphaGo, desarrollado por DeepMind, derrota al campeón mundial Lee Sedol en el juego de Go.
  • 2017 – AlphaZero de Google derrota a los mejores motores de ajedrez y shogi del mundo en una serie de partidas.
  • 2020 – OpenAI lanza GPT-3, lo que marca un avance significativo en el procesamiento del lenguaje natural.

(!!) Procesamiento del lenguaje natural: enseña a las computadoras a comprender y utilizar el lenguaje humano mediante técnicas como el aprendizaje automático.

  • 2021 – AlphaFold2 de DeepMind resuelve el problema del plegamiento de proteínas, allanando el camino para nuevos descubrimientos de fármacos y avances médicos.
  • 2022 – Google despide al ingeniero Blake Lemoine por sus afirmaciones de que el modelo de lenguaje para aplicaciones de diálogo (LaMDA) de Google era sensible.
  • 2023 – Artistas presentaron una demanda colectiva contra Stability AI, DeviantArt y Mid-journey por usar Stable Diffusion para remezclar las obras protegidas por derechos de autor de millones de artistas.

Gráfico: Open Tech / Genuine Impact

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@madeindex @sensiblequiet

If only it were so simple.

In any country, especially those with #authoritarian leaders, having your personal thoughts & beliefs, perhaps sympathy #Palestinian children caught up in a war they were simply born into, might damage ones ability to even work or move around freely. I don't believe that is the case in the #USA today but it was in the 1950's during the #McCarthy era. McCarthy mentored #RoyCohn, Cohn mentored #Trump. People should be concerned everywhere.

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@GottaLaff @dougiec3

Agreed but we still cannot go quietly into the night.

#McCarthy was almost never successfully opposed until the "...have you no decency?!?!" retort. The records of all of the hearing now serve as educational cautionary tales for those who take the time to study and the documented #resistance is part of that #history .

Why bring up McCarthy? He mentored #RoyCohn who mentored #Trump.

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