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可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ · The Romantic Poets were among the first celebrities in history. o Famous for their talent and their scandalous lives. · William Blake o Born in London on November 28, 1757, Blake was not only a poet but also a painter and printmaker. § His prints and artworks are known just as much as his poems. o Blake's work often explores themes of spirituality, imagination, and the nature of reality. § He often had visions as a child, including angels in a tree and God looking at him through a window. § Also, known for being a pioneer in the free love movement. o In poems like "The Tyger" and "The Lamb," he explores the dualities of existence—good and evil, innocence and experience. § His most famous poem is Jerusalem which is now considered to the unofficial anthem for England. o Influenced many poets, writers and is considered the inspiration for comic literature. · Lord Byron o Born George Gordon Byron on January 22, 1788, in London, Byron was both a poet and a nobleman. o His life was marked by scandal, adventure, and a fierce dedication to personal freedom. § “Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know” § He was disabled and bulimic who suffered with body image issues. § Byron used to drink out of a skull he found and made flower pots out of the rest. § He had numerous affairs with both men and women as well as his own half-sister. o Byron's most famous works include Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan. § In Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Byron introduced the "Byronic hero," a brooding, rebellious, and charismatic figure that became a staple of Romantic literature. § Don Juan, on the other hand, is a satirical epic that parodies the traditional hero by presenting its protagonist as a flawed yet sympathetic character. § He was one of the first writers whose works were pirated! o Byron fought for Greek independence and died in Greece in 1816 · Percy Shelley o Born on August 4, 1792, in Sussex, England. § Also, he was famous vegetarian. o He was expelled from Oxford for writing an essay promoting atheism. o Married a 16-year-old girl Harriet Westbrook. § Shelley was cut off by his father and lost a huge fortune. § Harriet eventually drowned herself when Shelley abandoned her. § Married Mary Shelley, the writer of Frankenstein, three weeks later. · Also was having a relationship with Mary’s step-sister! o Shelley's poetry is known for its lyrical beauty, philosophical depth, and revolutionary spirit. o He was a passionate advocate for political and social reform, and his works often express a longing for a more just and free world. o Shelley's life was cut short when he drowned in a boating accident at the age of 29. Hi, everyone and welcome back to Britain Under the Microscope. 欢迎回来【闲话英伦】. Hi, 安澜. Hi lulu, hi everyone. So 安澜, you know that we have been developing this new course, this new 四合一literature classics course. Yeah, that's when we've been going through pretty much the whole of English literature very very carefully. Yeah, and when we say English literature, we don't just mean England, we mean like English speaking. English speaking literature. Yeah, so I thought let's do a literature episode. Sounds great. But like English literature is huge, which area do you want to focus on? I would like to do the romantic poets. Woo, yes. 就是浪漫主义诗人. When you hear this title, you probably think "oh, it's just going to be very romantic and sentimental lyrics or like verses. No. No, we're gonna talk about their 狗血 life. Yes, the romantic poets were pretty scandalous. And in some cases, pretty horrible as well. Yeah. Well, unlike the name suggests.

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可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ AI development Advanced Intelligence · Reason or use strategies that help to make judgements · Plan, learn, use common sense(some humans can’t), communicate in natural language · Combine these to complete a goal Current Ai can’t do hands (showing inability to truly reason) · Hands are a small part of the body · Often not in focus on pictures · Covered up or blurry because of motion AI and Art · AI created art (using Midjourney) entered into a competition and won. · Books (such as Alice and Sparkle) have used AI artwork. (stealing others artwork to create new artwork.) · Sora videos have issues. someone’s arm becoming a blanket. A hand randomly appeared on a bed. ChatGPT can be used to do more · Answer test questions better than an average test taker(depending on the test) · Write computer programs or stories · However, it can hallucinate (give nonsensical answers that sound correct) Welcome back to Geek Time advanced. This is Brad. How are you doing Lulu? Hi Brad. How are you going getting along with your AI boyfriends? Well. I'm moving on to new relationships very quickly and I'm developing multiple storylines. I think that is fun. So I'm assuming we're gonna talk more about AI. Yeah, now one thing that's very interesting if you pay attention to like any pictures or videos created by AI. Mhm. By ChatGPT or any of those. Midjourney. Yeah, you'll see that they can't really do things like hands. Oh. Yes. I've noticed就是Midjourney. 那个AI绘画它是画不清楚手. Why is that? Either it's like six fingers or some fingers are really long, bendy, they just don't look realistic. This is a little weird, why, when they can do perfect faces? Like when you look at a face, a face typically has a particular structure and it doesn't really matter which way you turn. Your face is... it’s things are always gonna be in the same spot. But when you look at someone's hand, right? They can put it into a fist. They can extend their fingers. Some fingers can be curved, some fingers can be straight. It's all kind of like all these different configurations of a hand can be shown in pictures. And so AI gets confused about what exactly is a hand. And so it has all these different pictures to kind of draw from. So it kind of like combines all of those together and creates this kind of like weird looking thing. Yeah. It's very interesting that you said that, because AI cannot really conceptualize what hands look like in a three dimensional space. Does that mean that although AI can create like really beautiful artwork, it is mostly still copying to some extent, it is not really, truly reasoning? Right, AI and narrow AI doesn't really have a way to contextualize things. It just takes data and rearranges it. It doesn't really know what the data is. It just sees what people create and tries to create something very similar to that based on the constraints given to it. Emm. Does this mean AI the current narrow AI they're just not really that intelligent, despite being called AI, artificial intelligence?

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