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Loria Aida Lamone and Caldecod honor-winning illustrator Peter Seis, a transcendent picture book featuring the poem that will travel into space aboard

NASA's Europa Clipper in praise of mystery, celebrates humankind's curiosity.

Asked us what it means to explore beyond our known world and shows

how the unknown can reflect us back to ourselves.

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I'm Major Jackson and this is the slow.

And this is the slowdown. So I am a poet, which means occasionally I have these peculiar thoughts that take me down some

conundrums of thinking.

Like this one.

What if we only have so many words collectively to use between us. What if, because of this, we are quickly heading toward extinction?

What if all of our speech, since the invention of technologies like the computer and

personal cell phone have accelerated us merely toward a prison of data points,

flaccid ideologies, empty silos of behavior and uninspired categorizations.

That is, what if language in this environment is not generative, but limited by its ability

to signify nothing more than what we have experienced and expressed thus far as humans.

This would be the great failure of artificial intelligence.

There is a belief, and for some conclusion conclusion that the more we feed AI the likelihood increases

that it will replicate human ingenuity or capture the richness of human feelings.

I am fearful that the large language models we create will ultimately enclose us into a

soulless stoned fortress for which there is no escape.

The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote about the limits of language.

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