Marvin T Adger

Where is artificial general intelligence? My grandfather’s guess is as good as yours

...Every few decades since 1946, there’s been a wave of excitement that this might be close (in 1970 the AI pioneer Marvin Minsky claimed that we would have human-level AGI in three to eight years)....

April 13, 2024

Life & Arts

FT Weekend Quiz: rhythmic gymnastics, Marvin Lee Aday and Shaun of the Dead follow-up

...Marvin Lee Aday was the birth name of which singer, whose 1977 debut album is one of the biggest selling of all time?...

June 9, 2023

FT Live

Business of Entertainment Summit

Capitalizing on Disruption

The Weekend Essay

AI keeps going wrong. What if it can’t be fixed?

...In 1970, AI pioneer Marvin Minsky predicted: “In from three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being.” Oops....

April 6, 2024

Bankruptcy

Top US bankruptcy judge steps aside from big cases amid investigation

...“I don’t like seeing my name in the newspaper. The goal was really to create a court that we could all be proud of,” Jones said. “I work very hard every day....

October 13, 2023

Ed Sheeran

Ed Sheeran wins ‘Let’s Get It On’ copyright infringement trial

...Ed Sheeran did not infringe the copyright of Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get it On” when he wrote his 2014 hit “Thinking Out Loud”, a New York jury found on Thursday, ending a long-running case that the music industry...

May 4, 2023

The Aesthete

‘My style icon is my boyfriend, Jarvis Cocker’: Kim Sion talks taste

...He wasn’t keen at first – he said he wasn’t a dog lover – but when it was finished, he was reluctant to hand it over and said it was one of the best pictures he’d ever done....

November 24, 2023

FT Live

Business of Art

Market shifts and future growth

ObituaryWalter Mirisch

Walter Mirisch, film producer, 1921-2023

...And if you break your leg, they don’t shoot you — they let you do it yourself.” After Harold’s death in 1968, Walter and Marvin began working with Universal Pictures....

March 4, 2023

FT Magazine

The puzzling afterlife of Britain’s last executioner

...On the journey back to London, my imagination ran to Marvin Lundy, the obsessive collector in Don DeLillo’s Underworld, whose New York basement in a house “steeped in aquarium dimness” contains a lifetime...

February 9, 2024

Transcript

Another rough day for US regional banks

...Marc FilippinoSome people heard a striking similarity to Marvin Gaye’s hit Let’s Get It On. Marvin GayeBaby then. Come on. Oh, come on. Hoo. Let’s get it on....

May 5, 2023

The Big Read

Downfall of the judge who dominated US bankruptcy

...“You disrespect me one more time you will see the other side of me that I don’t want to come out,” Jones warned....

November 21, 2023

News in-depthGuatemala

‘Everyone is terrified’: Guatemalan journalist faces decades in prison

...He and his reporting partner Marvin Del Cid had already left the country temporarily twice. “We have one foot out and one foot in,” he said....

June 13, 2023

Stefan Stern

Don’t be deluded by the exaggerated claims made for AI

...“Being a customer shouldn’t be hard work,” he writes....

February 27, 2023

FT Magazine

My dad, the demigod

...I didn’t want it contradicted. What I did know — what I couldn’t help but know — was what others told me....

September 29, 2023

The Art of Fashion: Fantastic Shapes

Monster Chetwynd: ‘I enjoy the mischief’

...“I tell them, you don’t need a commercial show, you don’t need to be represented by a gallery.” Chetwynd takes this seriously....

April 5, 2023

HTSI

15 summer festivals and events to book now

...Partake in a traditional picnic in the grounds – order one from the venue if you don’t want to pack your own – or dine at one of the venue’s restaurants....

June 21, 2023

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Awards Asia-Pacific

Celebrating innovations from both law firms and in-house teams in the region

ObituaryBarrett Strong

Barrett Strong, songwriter and musician, 1941-2023

...“I don’t know,” he answered. With customary vim, Gordy tricked out the riff into a song. Adopted by an influential local radio DJ, it became a hit....

February 4, 2023

UK property

Bustling Bristol lures homebuyers

...There has been a call for rent controls from Bristol mayor Marvin Rees and Tom Renhard, cabinet member for housing delivery and homes....

February 16, 2023

Arts

1973 — the year pop culture found its dark side

...It turned out that all that darkness didn’t really worry anyone at all. Darkness sold....

January 7, 2023

FT SeriesThe HTSI Property issue 2022

Peter Marino: ‘It might be easier to talk about what I don’t collect’

...I’m producing a Peter Marino Spotify playlist and it starts with Wang, followed by Marvin Gaye and a lot of Mozart....

November 4, 2022

InterviewVisual Arts

What makes art collectors leave London for a Scottish castle?

...The David Roberts Art Foundation, which has supported and shown more than 1,000 artists since 2007, including Victor Man and Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, was last year renamed the Roberts Institute of Art....

March 21, 2022

FT Magazine

A uniquely British festival of the working class welcomes its new hero

...One local tells me how Marvin Gaye once played here, another tells me that’s bullshit, it was actually Al Green. I meet some faithful Labour voters but not many....

July 22, 2022

News in-depthBankruptcy

Houston becomes a magnet for blockbuster US bankruptcies

...I would prefer that to being sent to a jurisdiction that I don’t know.”...

January 12, 2022

Life & Arts

FT Weekend Quiz: Tractarians, Ernst Stavro Blofeld and the assassination of Julius Caesar

...Once you’ve spotted the link, any you didn’t know the first time around should become easier....

July 23, 2021

ReviewTelevision

Was 1971 the most tumultuous year in music history?

...I didn’t know if we had that in England.” Well, we didn’t. But in November 1971 he recorded a song called “Ziggy Stardust”....

May 19, 2021

News in-depthGerman politics

‘Solid’ Scholz outshines rivals on German campaign trail

...“He definitely gets my vote,” said Marvin Reimers, an auditor, brandishing a Scholz autograph. “He was a great mayor and will be a great chancellor.”...

August 11, 2021

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