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Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. I'm not sure I want to be around that long Mel Brooks, shown in January, celebrated his 100th birthday this week. This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search.

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Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. Alberto Carvalho addresses a press conference at Elysian Heights Elementary Arts Magnet in 2022. This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search.

The L.A. school board selected longtime insider Andrés Chait to lead LAUSD just three days after Alberto Carvalho resigned amid an FBI investigation.

'AI cannot and will never render us obsolete' Cory Doctorow at home in Los Angeles. 'AI cannot and will never render us obsolete' Cory Doctorow at home in Los Angeles. The writer who coined the word'enshittification' tells us why AI will never deliver what it promises - and why it still appeals so much to those in power A "centaur", in automation theory, is a person assisted by a machine, and a "reverse centaur", hero of Cory Doctorow's new book, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI, is a "human who is conscripted into acting as an assistant a machine". Every warehouse worker who ever had to urinate in a water bottle because they couldn't otherwise meet the fulfilment targets set by an algorithm is a reverse centaur. Reaching into the future, everyone who has to sit in a self-driving truck to make sure it doesn't crash, presumably on minimum rather than truck-driver wages, is a reverse centaur; as is every lawyer no longer on lawyer's money checking Gemini's command of precedent, every indie band scraping a living doing covers of AI-generated hits, and so on. That, anyway, is the promise: AI is coming for your job, and it is coming for your kids' jobs, and there is no point fighting it because the future's already here.

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Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. Fifth grade students work on computers at their South Los Angeles school in 2019. This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . Los Angeles Unified will ban classroom screen time in preschool through first grade and sharply limit it for older students.

How some people's brains make an extraordinary recovery from stroke A well-known actor who had experienced a stroke was treated by stroke specialist Sandor Nardai. The actor had been left with aphasia, or an impaired ability to speak - brutal for anyone, but "probably the most devastating thing that could happen to an actor", says Nardai. After three months of recovery, though, the actor was able to say some words. After a year, he voiced a commercial. Remarkably, he eventually got well enough to return to live theatre, says Nardai, who is at Semmelweis University in Hungary.