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Eurovision Contestants 2015: Ireland

Ireland rocks at Eurovision. With seven wins since the birth of the most over-the-top singing contest, the country is actually the most successful at it. So, congrats...?

But Ireland has lost its Euro-mojo, as it's failed to reach the top five since 1997. Will this year's contestant Molly Sterling — at 16 years old, the youngest ever participant for Ireland — get the country back on track?

We're a little confused by the meaning of her song "Playing With Numbers" — and apparently so is she: "I was playing with the numbers and I didn't know what it meant." Come on Molly, TELL US WHAT THE NUMBERS MEAN!

Our guesses:

- The song is about an amnesic accountant;

- or about someone who bought a Euromillion ticket but then forgot;

- or about trying to become a math teacher in China;

- or about misplacing a large sum of money (which would coincidentally explain why Molly is now singing alone in a shitty warehouse).

Our vote:

Does it make you want to visit that country? 1.75/10

Was there enough glitter? 2.25/10

Ok to quit your day job? 1.5/10

OVERALL AVERAGE: 1.37/10

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Where Altman Meets Macron: The Quest For AI Alignment, Between Private And Public

The inventor of ChatGPT is in Europe to try to force leaders on the Continent to face hard questions about what artificial intelligence is bringing to our world, whether they like it or not.

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Sam Macron or Emmanuel Altman?

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-Analysis-

PARIS — Six months ago, Sam Altman’s name was only known to a small circle of technophiles. Earlier this week, when he came to France, he was received by President Emmanuel Macron and the Minister of Economy, and he is back in Paris on Friday to make other connections. On his Twitter account, he described his trip as a "World Tour," like a pop star.

Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the U.S. company that created ChatGPT, the natural language artificial intelligence tool that has literally shaken the world. With 200 million users worldwide in just six months, ChatGPT has broken all sorts of records for the speed of technology adoption.

The world of Tech is prone to trends, and not all of them last. However, to quote Gilles Babinet, co-president of the National Digital Council in France, who has recently published an essay on the history of the internet titled Comment les hippies, Dieu et la science ont inventé Internet ("How the Internet Was Invented by Hippies, God and Science"), we are currently facing an "anthropological break."

In other words, a qualitative leap that will impact all human activities, and even the political organization of our societies — with both positive and negative results.

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