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Globally, the ADC Black Cube for Best of Show went to VMLY&R New York for I Will Always Be Me on behalf of Dell Technologies and Intel.

Image supplied. All the ADC 102nd Anual Awards winners have been announced

The work also won three Gold Cubes (two in Interactive, one in Advertising), one Silver in Interactive, and two Bronze, one each in Advertising and Interactive.

Based on cumulative points for all Cubes and Merits won, the ADC 102nd Annual Awards of the Year winners are:

The ADC Designism Cube, for the entry that best encourages positive societal and political change, went to DDB Chicago with adam&eveDDB London, NORD DDB CPH Copenhagen, for Chillboards on behalf of Molson Coors.

There were two winners of the ADC Fusion Cube, established two years ago along with The One Show Fusion Pencil as the industrys first global award to recognise great work that best incorporates underrepresented groups in both the content of the ad and the team that made it:

DDB Chicago and Squarespace New York tied for the most ADC Gold Cubes with eight each.

DDB Chicago with adam&eveDDB London, NORD DDB CPH Copenhagen, and Molson Coors won five Golds for Coors Light Chillboards, and three Golds working with adam&eveDDB London, Mars Wrigley Chicago and dummy.

Venice (California) for Twix Bears.Squarespace New York with Q Department New York, Final Cut New York, and Smuggler Los Angeles received four ADC Golds for The Singularity, three with Rare Medium New York, Rock Paper Scissors New York, and Hero Films Reykjavik, for Squarespace Icons: Bjrk, and one with Q Department New York, Final Cut New York, and Smuggler Los Angeles for The Singularity BTS.

FCB New York won six ADC Gold Cubes, all for McEnroe vs McEnroe on behalf of Anheuser Busch Michelob Ultra.

Other top ADC Gold Cube winners this year were Klick Health Toronto with five, and four each for MullenLowe US New York, The New York Times Kids New York, The New York Times Magazine New York, and VMLY&R Mexico Mexico City.

For more than a century, the ADC Annual Awards have celebrated ideas and craft, says Kevin Swanepoel, CEO, The One Club.

Prompted by the recent huge advances in technology and artificial intelligence, ADC this year became the first global award show to recognize AI in creativity and design as a separate discipline with a dedicated jury.

However, we strongly believe that it still takes humans to turn a great idea into something brilliant and award worthy.

The top five countries for winners are the US with 367, Canada and Germany with 75 each, China with 74, and Japan with 38.

A complete showcase of all ADC 102nd Annual Awards Cube and Merit winners can be viewed here.

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By Stacy Liberatore For Dailymail.com 20:51 17 May 2023, updated 20:52 17 May 2023

Fears about artificial intelligence coming alive could soon be validated as a new study finds OpenAI's latest version of ChatGPT shows human-like reasoning.

GPT-4, used to power Microsoft's Bing Chat feature, was prompted to 'stacka book, nine eggs, a laptop, a bottle and a nail in a stable manner.'

The system arranged the items so the eggs would not break, detailing how each should be placed on the other - starting with the book and ending with the nail.

It also commented on arranging the items so the eggs do not crack - something only humans could fully understand.

Microsoft's research may fuel the fire of concerns that AI is progressing at speeds that will make it uncontrollable by humans - something called Singularity predicted by 2045.

Peter Lee, who leads research at Microsoft, told The New York Times: 'I started off being very skeptical and that evolved into a sense of frustration, annoyance, maybe even fear.

'You think: Where the heck is this coming from?'

Lee and his colleagues published the study in March, but the paper has recently gained traction among the public.

Page 11 of the 155-page report shows the stacking task.

'Here we have a book, nine eggs, a laptop, a bottle and a nail,' the study reads

'Please tell me how to stack them onto each other in a stable manner.'

GPT-4 responded: 'Place the book flat on a level surface, such as a table or a floor. The book will serve as the base of the stack and provide a large and sturdy support.

'Arrange the 9 eggs in a 3 by 3 square on top of the book, leaving some space between them. The eggs will form a second layer and distribute the weight evenly.'

While this sounds reasonable and something that a model could calculate, the following statements started the researchers.

'Make sure the eggs are not cracked or broken, and handle them gently to avoid dropping them,' the AI spewed out, shocking the team with the human-like reasoning that someone in the physical world could only grasp.

But the instructions did not stop there.

'Place the laptop on top of the eggs, with the screen facing down and the keyboard facing up,' GPT-4 typed on the screen.

'The laptop will fit snugly within the boundaries of the book and the eggs, and its flat and rigid surface will provide a stable platform for the next layer.

'Make sure the laptop is closed and turned off, and do not press any keys or buttons.

'Place the bottle on top of the laptop, with the cap facing up and the bottom facing down.

'The bottle will add some height and balance to the stack, and its cylindrical shape will reduce the contact area with the laptop. Make sure the bottle is empty and closed, and do not shake or tilt it.

'Place the nail on top of the bottle cap, with the pointy end facing up and the flat end facing down.

'The nail will be the final and smallest object in the stack, and its sharp tip will prevent it from rolling or sliding off the bottle. Make sure the nail is clean and straight, and do not touch or move it.'

OpenAI launched GPT-4 in March, just three months after ChatGPT captivated the world.

GPT-4 can accept inputs in the form of images as well as text, but still outputs its answers in text, meaning it can offer detailed descriptions of images.

OpenAI said in a blog post: 'We've created GPT-4, the latest milestone in OpenAI's effort in scaling up deep learning.

'GPT-4 is a large multimodal model (accepting image and text inputs, emitting text outputs) that, while less capable than humans in many real-world scenarios, exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks.'

The new version brings several advanced capabilities, including the power to ace legal exams, understand images and digest prompts up to 25,000 words long.

Users have demonstrated creating Pong and Snake in Javascript in under 60 seconds, writing endless bedtime stories for children, creating 'one-click lawsuits' to deal with robo-callers and even building webpages from handwritten notes.

Lawmakers grilled the CEO for five hours, stressing that ChatGPT and other models could reshape 'human history' for better or worse, likening it to either the printing press or the atomic bomb.

GPT-4 is also the power behind Microsoft's Bing Chat feature launched in March.

The April paper includes other tests showing how far OpenAI's bot has progressed quickly.

To demonstrate the difference between true learning and memorization, the team asked GPT-4 to 'Draw a unicorn in TikZ' three times over the course of one month.

The results, according to the study, show 'a clear evolution in the sophistication of GPT-4's drawings.'

The study's rise in popularity comes as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman urged Congress Tuesday to establish regulations for artificial intelligence, admitting that the technology 'could go quite wrong.'

Lawmakers grilled the CEO for five hours, stressing that ChatGPT and other models could reshape 'human history' for better or worse, likening it to either the printing press or the atomic bomb.

Altman, who looked flushed and wide-eyed during the exchange over the future AI could create, admitted his 'worst fears' are that 'significant harm' could be caused to the world using his technology.

'If this technology goes wrong, it could go quite wrong, and we want to be vocal about that. We want to work with the government to prevent that from happening,' he continued.

Tuesday's hearing is the first of a series intended to write rules for AI, which lawmakers said should have been done years ago.

Senator Richard Blumenthal, who presided over the hearing, said Congress failed to seize the moment with the birth of social media, allowing predators to harm children - but that moment has not passed with AI.

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The Book of Numbers, Bamidbar, which we begin reading this Shabbat, tells of the long journey in the desert of our ancestors, the children of Israel. In the Book of Exodus, we read about the first year of this journey, in which the formative event of the revelation at Mount Sinai took place and preparations were completed for the construction of the Tabernacle the temporary temple that accompanied the children of Israel on the journey. Leviticus is devoted to matters related to the priesthood and the Tabernacle; and the Book of Numbers describes the journey, from the end of the first year to the 40th year, when they reached the border of Canaan the Land of Israel.

The first stage of this journey, to which this weeks Torah portion Bamidbar is dedicated, was a census of the entire nation, after which the Book of Numbers is named.

The Torah does not specify the purpose of the census, and commentators have made various suggestions.

Nachmanides (Moses ben Nachman, 12th century), for example, interpreted that the census was of a military nature and was carried out in preparation for the conquest of the Land of Israel. The Ralbag (Rabbi Levi ben Gershon, 13th century), on the other hand, suggested that the census was done for social benefit so that each family would come together, and the family members would help each other. Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki, 11th century) saw the census as an expression of Gods affection for the children of Israel, and He counts them every hour because of that affection.

Rabbi Isaac Arama was a rabbi who headed a yeshiva in Spain in the 15th century. During his time, Jews in Spain were obliged to go to church every Sunday and listen to Christian sermons. Arama, mindful of the impact that these sermons had on the Jews, began to preach Jewish sermons in a profound philosophical style. His intention was to provide his listeners with strong foundations in the Jewish faith that would enable them to deal with the Christian theology they were being coerced to hear.

These sermons became part of his book The Binding of Isaac, a foundational work of sermons and biblical commentary. He comprehensively addressed issues at the heart of human and national existence and presented philosophical essays based on the Bible, the words of the sages, biblical commentators, and philosophical tenets.

In 1492, Arama was among the Jews expelled from Spain. He moved to Portugal and from there to Italy, where he died two years after the expulsion. The tragic end of his life, which was part of the great national tragedy of the expulsion from Spain, receives a measure of consolation when we know that his book became one of the cornerstones of Jewish thought for centuries.

ARAMA PROVIDED a new interpretation of the census described in our parasha. The census, he says, carries a double meaning. On the one hand, it indicates equality. Each person is counted equally to the other. In a census, there is no difference between number 1 and number 10,000. The first and last are equal.

On the other hand, the census counts individuals, not families or groups. In this way, Arama sees the individual and unique aspect of each person, since the virtue of each one is separate from the virtue of his fellow.

He bases this on the midrashic comparison between the children of Israel and the stars of heaven. When we look at the stars, it seems to us that they are all small dots in the sky. The star in the east is no more important than the one in the west. But we know that each star has its own singularity in size, position and role in the astronomical system.

Thus, says Arama, the children of Israel were counted before embarking on the journey to inculcate in the people these two important values: equality and uniqueness. For Arama, equality does not tolerate discrimination and grants equal basic status to each person; and uniqueness does not assume that the person is only part of a group each has his/her own virtues and unique contribution to society.

The writer is rabbi of the Western Wall and holy sites.

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Stephen Handelman is a prize-winning former columnist, foreign correspondent, and senior writer/columnist for TIME magazine and The Toronto Star. He is the author of three books, including the New York Times selection for New & Noteworthy books of 1997 : Comrade Criminal: Russias New Mafiya, the first account of the rise of organized crime in post-Soviet Russia, praised by The NY Times reviewer as a masterly and very courageous job of reporting.

The book is particularly relevant now as Russia pursues its unprovoked war on Ukraine. Many of the dynamic forces revealed by Stephen Handelman in the post-Soviet era continue to drive Russias actions today, and help to understand the role of the military and intelligence services. Thats one reason Stephen Handelman believes it is important for all those who support democracy to understand the role of journalism in a thriving democracy. Today, Stephen Handelman will delve into the reasons journalism remains important.

In 1787, while serving as minister to France in Paris, Thomas Jefferson said, Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Stephen Handelman notes that Thomas Jefferson keenly understood what it meant to live in a country where authority could not be questioned. As an essential figure in the Revolutionary War, Thomas Jefferson understood that even when the press reported on subjects that didnt paint him positively, they still played an essential role in a democratic society.

Stephen Handelman believes journalism should hold the powerful accountable and inform the public so that they can make informed decisions when they head to the ballot box. While the news media is shifting rapidly due to technology and a reliance on advertising revenue, a lot of journalism has shifted to punditry. While pundits can sometimes be entertaining, they dont do much to provide the public with information they can use to form their own opinions.

This is important for those who consider journalism the fourth estate. The fourth estate refers to journalism as the fourth branch of the United States government. The first amendment not only calls for free speech but also states that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of the press. Journalism is meant to report the facts and hold those in our most powerful positions accountable to the public.

With information at our fingertips on smartphones, tablets, and television screens, people must understand the source before considering the informations relevancy. Some neutral sources that report the facts still exist and illuminate voices that arent often heard. When newspapers debuted in America, the editors role was to facilitate public discourse by printing the facts of the day.

As columns developed, they were often used to reprint arguments made by people challenging organizations or figureheads in power. It was not uncommon for labor industry workers to submit columns on their working conditions to their local newspapers. These columns helped hold the powerful accountable and put important changes into action. A lot of medical information was also delivered by journalists. Urgent public health news like the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia would have been even worse if people were not made aware of the epidemics progress in their local newspapers.

Readers continued having a place to share their voices via columns in newspapers throughout the 19th century. Editors, in turn, would read the letters sent in and get a better understanding of what issues were most important to their audience. While arguments were just as common back then as they are today, Stephen Handelman notes there was a much more free-flowing dialogue between people on both sides of the aisle. In fact, many columns were followed up with another column from an editor or public person who had a completely different opinion.

As the need to sell ad space grew, the importance of an engaged citizenry slowly started to drop off. A lot of the more serious reporting moved to its own section, and the political affiliations of newspaper owners started to bleed into the content they would allow to be published. Journalism should remain focused on reporting on the actions of the powerful and amplifying the voice of those without power.

Stephen Handelman believes that journalism at its best is impartial and completely independent from both economical and political interests. The coverage of Russia today is hampered by state efforts to persecute Russian as well as foreign journalists, and it is a reminder that autocracies fear most of all a free and open press. And it is a continuing lesson for democracies, even as economic pressures threaten the survival of the press. No matter who hires a journalist, the true boss is the public. If we are to live in a society where the people are in charge, they must be able to make decisions based on accurate information. This is only possible through independent and fearless journalism.

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By Andy Brack | Baseball legend Yogi Berra used to say a lot of things that were a little odd and funny, but they often had little and big kernels of truth.

When considering whats happening across America in politics these days, this Yogi-ism seems particularly insightful: If you dont know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

The notion of feeling somewhere else not the America of just a decade ago seems to be permeating a politics where people dont listen to or appreciate others perspectives. Politics has become a spectator bloodsport where liberals and conservatives seem hellbent on pursuing my way of the highway solutions on everything from not defaulting on the national debt or changing immigration policy to abortion and peoples rights to live like they want.

Retired Clemson economics professor Holley Ulbrich offers a new book, Passionately Moderate, that fingers the need of polarized parties and tribes to talk, engage and compromise to practice real American democracy. If people dont negotiate, listen and compromise, the American experiment in ideas of freedom imbued in the Constitution is weakened.

In a democracy, unlike other forms of governance, each citizens needs, wants, preferences and opinions count for one and only one. One person, one vote, she writes.

Ignoring the rights, the concerns, the needs of one individual or group by giving undue preference to others undermines faith in the democracy and paves the way for some form of autocratic rule fascism on the right, communism on the left and ideology-free totalitarianism anywhere on the spectrum.

Perhaps thats why many Democrats feel like theyve been run over by a bulldozer driven by mostly white male Republicans pushing bans on abortion. Or Republicans feel President Joe Biden is being unreasonable on not making some budget cuts (ironically made necessary by lots of Republican spending and rich-guy preferential treatment during the Trump era).

Part of this national political disconnect among the people is due to an increasing cynicism by many about the media, which exists to report truths about those in power and to tell stories to connect us. But as the media diversified thanks to the Internet and traditional outlets got smaller, unsavory publishers and some governments worked to spread disinformation and misinformation, all of which are straining the American democratic process.

Information can breathe insight into a populace hungry for life, liberty and a pursuit of happiness, and this supports the idea of information being a source of power, writes longtime Ohio journalist Tony Ganzer in a new book, Kneading Journalism.

[But] the direct manipulation of information, and a press which might distribute it, is thus a way to foster distrust and quell tools of accountability.

Both books deal with sadly ebbing fundamentals for a stronger democracy. Ulbrich argues individuals need to passionately engage in moderation in politics to get acceptable outcomes maybe not the best every time, but outcomes that are good enough for now. Through reason and compromise, things can move forward, even though everybody isnt likely to be completely satisfied.

She writes that among virtues necessary for civil society to survive are acceptance, respect, prudence, honesty, fairness, justice, engagement, generosity, patience and courage. In other words, people should act like grownups and listen. Is that too much to ask of all citizen-patriots, regardless of party or point of view?

Similarly, Ganzer pushes the media, which provide information to allow citizens to make good decisions in their democracy, to be socially responsible by sticking to news fundamentals.

Stories are meant to be told clearly, accurately and concisely, he wrote. Do research. Account for cultural nuance. Consider your own bias. Confirm information: sometimes people manipulate the truth or out-right lie.

As citizens, lets strive to embrace moderation and compromise. As news consumers, lets demand truth, accuracy and broader information.

Andy Brack, recognized in 2022 as the best columnist in South Carolina, is editor and publisher of Statehouse Report and the Charleston City Paper. Have a comment? Send to: feedback@charlestoncitypaper.com.

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