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<keyword id="6355315" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Elon-musk" source="Orion">Elon Musk</keyword>, the businessman and magnate, last week fired over 50 per cent of Twitter employees once he took over the social media company. The world was astounded at the way it was done, without a human care and thought of any kindness behind it.<br /><br />There was no exit interview or interaction between the employees and the company and a call or a message was all that apparently one got as an adieu.<br /><br />Reverberating with the unceremonious exits of thousands of Twitter, Amazon, Meta and several other such companies, one was surprised about the dreaded pink slip that was given to all the selectors of the <keyword id="8675" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="indian-cricket-team" source="Orion">Indian cricket team</keyword> by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (<keyword id="6354756" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="bcci" source="Orion">BCCI</keyword>) as well.<br /><br />The loss in the semifinal stage of the T20 World Cup was the death knell for the wise men who failed to select the right winning squad for the prestigious tournament.<br /><br />The selectors in the past have been called various names. However, two of India's legendary cricketers, referred to them as 'A bunch of Jokers' and 'Court Jesters and Lame Ducks', which was pretty amusing at that time. Both were proven right. However, the Indian acceptance of 'This is the way it is' needs to inspire a change for the better in the future.<br /><br />One did feel sorry for the Chetan Sharma-led selection committee, which did not receive any written or verbal brickbats. However, they had their photographs splashed in several print and digital media, with the word 'Sacked' prominently displayed.<br /><br />They did select a squad that had all the skills and experience to combine themselves into a forceful and winning unit. The Indian think tank of the coach, captain and the support staff was outsmarted both on and off the field by England. India's loss needed fall guys and the easiest were 'the wise men of Gotham' -- the selectors.<br /><br />The BCCI, interestingly, since then has used the existing selectors to select the sides for India's upcoming series.<br /><br />The post of the selectors is now a well-remunerated one and is a full-time job and it, therefore, requires a professional approach. The most important task is in the selection of the selectors. There are certain criteria that are required to be met as regards the age being under 60 years as well as one should have played seven Test matches or 30 First-class matches etc. However, the most important appointment by the BCCI is the appointment of the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC).<br /><br />The CAC selects the selectors and, therefore, the three members that represent it should have impeccable credentials. They, one feels, should have played over 25 Test matches and have a thorough knowledge of the game and what the position entails.<br /><br />The BCCI are fortunate that they have Roger Binny as their president, Dilip Vengsarkar and Shubhangi Kulkarni in their Apex Committee, three Indian Test cricketers who would be ideal people to select a very competent CAC.<br /><br />The selectors now are a professional outfit, wherein, the earlier requirement of five zonal representatives should be abolished. Earlier, this was necessary as the Ranji Trophy was played initially in their respective zones and thereafter teams qualified for the knock-out stage. In the present format, the zonal basis makes no sense as teams are now placed in groups from any part of India.<br /><br />The five selectors, similar to selection committees in other cricket-playing countries of the world, need to have individuals with the best credentials and capabilities. They could all be from one state or zone if need be.<br /><br />The vast amount of cricket being played domestically, one feels, each selector needs to have his own team of assistant selectors. The job now entails much more than just watching selective matches but a thorough analysis of players and their performance. India is a vast cricket-playing country and the challenge is for one to ensure that every talented Indian cricketer is identified and spotted on time.<br /><br />The talent-spotting programme, which was introduced under Vengsarkar many years ago, was a huge success. A similar approach should be conceptualised, with talent spotters from respective zones reporting to each of the five selectors. This would ensure a better coverage of unearthing aspiring cricketers from the junior to the senior-most level.<br /><br />At present, the IPL and the Under-19 India performers have become the hotbed for quick and early recognition. This is not the best solution as there are several other cricketers playing in the domestic circuit who have not been chosen in the IPL and have long passed the age of 19. A good example of late bloomers is Suryakumar Yadav.<br /><br />SKY, as he is popularly known, is batting like a man possessed, in limited-overs cricket. He has been a part of domestic cricket for many years and is at present 32 years old. He seems ready to play Test cricket, a format that evaded him till now.<br /><br />The time has come for a radical change on the appointment, scope and deliverables of a national cricket selector at all levels of the game. A common structure should be introduced that covers the cricket associations as well.<br /><br />The pink slips and sacking, one feels, is not the best way forward. A selector is, after all, only the facilitator and not the performer. The irony in this case was the facilitators became the fall guys whereas the ones who needed to perform are sitting unreprimanded.<br /><br />This definitely needs a comprehensive change.<br />(Yajurvindra Singh is a former India cricketer)<br /><strong>SEE ALSO:<br /></strong><a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/sports/news/india-vs-new-zealand-odis-series-how-to-watch-match-dates-and-timing-squads-and-more/slidelist/95732575.cms">India vs New Zealand ODIs – How to watch, match dates and timing, squads and more</a><br /><a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/sports/news/inox-to-screen-matches-of-fifa-world-cup-qatar-2022-live-in-its-cinema-halls-in-india/articleshow/95716463.cms">INOX to screen matches of FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 live in its cinema halls in India</a><br />

'The dreaded pink slip given to all the Indian senior cricket selectors'

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container float_right"><div class="image"><p class="source"><span>Twiiter/@peterlattman</span></p></div><p></p></div>A pro-Israel group <a href="http://jimromenesko.com/2014/05/23/sign-new-york-times-unfair-to-abramson-and-israel/">posted a giant sign</a> outside the New York Times headquarters connecting the paper's coverage of the Middle East peace crisis to its controversial firing of its former executive editor, Jill Abramson. </p>
<p>"The New York Times. Unfair to Jill Abramson. Definitely unfair to Israel," reads the Times Square buildboard.<span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><br /></span></p>
<p>"Stop skewering facts," the billboard demands. "Stop the Bias."</p>
<p>The group behind the sign, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, has a <a href="http://www.camera.org/nytimes/">litany of complaints</a> against the Times' coverage of the conflict in Israel and the Palestinian territories. CAMERA accuses the Times of "<span>factual errors" and promoting</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> "</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">a distorted sense of the region."</span></p>
<p>Reached for comment, Times spokeswoman Danielle Rhoades-Ha told Business Insider, <span style="line-height: 1.5em;">"We recognize CAMERA's right to advertise even though we disagree with their message." </span></p>
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Giant Sign Posted Outside NYT Building Says Paper 'Unfair To Jill Abramson'

<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>It's been a rough week for Twitter, with a wave of <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-execs-katie-jacobs-stanton-and-kevin-weil-leaving-company-2016-1">high-level departures</a> and the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-shares-following-news-of-executive-shakeup-2016-1">stock getting battered</a>.&#xa0;<p>So CEO Jack Dorsey took the stage on Thursday to rally the troops.</p><p>The effect, at least to judge by some of the effusive tweets being fired off by Twitter employees, was something between a pep-rally and a kool-aid-fueled love-fest.&#xa0;</p><p>Using&#xa0;the hashtag #oneteam, Twitter employees praised the company's positive impact on social change and freedom of expression, as well as its internal culture.</p><p>The tweets appeared designed to show that employees are still eager and excited about the company, at a time when Twitter is facing numerous challenges and growing doubts about its future.&#xa0;</p><p>Asked about the tweets, a Twitter spokesperson said it was simply Twitter employees "sharing why they love this company and this service," and noted that Twitter is hiring.&#xa0;</p><p>Here is a sampling of what Twitter employees are saying:</p><p><div></div></p><p class="embed-spacer">&#xa0;</p><p class="embed-spacer"><div></div></p><p class="embed-spacer">&#xa0;</p><p>&#xa0;</p><p><div></div></p><p class="embed-spacer">&#xa0;</p><p class="embed-spacer"><div></div></p><p class="embed-spacer">&#xa0;</p><p><div></div></p><p class="embed-spacer">&#xa0;<div></div></p><p class="embed-spacer">&#xa0;</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/everything-apple-will-unveil-iphone-ipad-watch-mac-2016-1">Everything Apple will unveil this year</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="FoaGZkMDE6YlJlHi-sOQa_q8E_vto0xr" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

Twitter is having an internal pep-rally meeting to pump up employees

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Wild West of the internet is notoriously good at making bad decisions. In 1998, a collective of internet users chose <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/04/business/the-on-line-choice-for-people-s-most-beautiful-angry-hank.html">Hank the "Angry Drunken Dwarf"</a> as the most beautiful person in the world.</span></p><p>In 2012, a coordinated internet campaign picked a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/02/taylor-swift-horace-mann-school-for-the-deaf-4chan-prank-contest_n_1932257.html" target="_blank">school for the deaf</a> as the winning recipient of a Taylor Swift concert. </p><p>And this year, some on the internet helped turn an advanced artificial intelligence chatbot, programmed to learn from human interactions, into a racist, sexist bot called Tay - all in just one day. </p><p>Here are some of Tay's now infamous Tweets:</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Twiiter</span></p></div><p></p></div></p><p> </p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Twitter</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Soon<span style="background-color: #ffffff;"> after Tay's bigoted Tweets started going viral</span>, Microsoft Research's Peter Lee apologized </span><a href="http://blogs.Microsoft.com/blog/2016/03/25/learning-tays-introduction/#sm.0000041cpwyzjef1kws8e3jekuujg"><span style="font-weight: 400;">in a blog post</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">: "Unfortunately, in the first 24 hours of coming online, a coordinated attack by a subset of people exploited a vulnerability in Tay. Although we had prepared for many types of abuses of the system, we had made a critical oversight for this specific attack. As a result, Tay tweeted wildly inappropriate and reprehensible words and images. We take full responsibility for not seeing this possibility ahead of time."</span></p><p>But we should also thank Microsoft for pointing out that we need to be<span style="background-color: #ffffff;"> more<strong> </strong>deliberate with how we interact </span>with such kinds of AI technology, since these programs will only magnify the ideas and information we feed them.</p><p><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">This concept is best explained in the words of </span>a classic computer <keyword id="41551" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="100" keywordseo="science">science</keyword> aphorism, "Garbage in, garbage out." This basically means that the quality of the input will determine the quality of the output. Tay, for example, was exposed to racist and sexist ideas that led her to learn and tweet those ideas.</p><p>The internet changed lives and altered history. Artificial Intelligence will likely have a similar impact on the world, so long as it becomes equally ubiquitous. AI bots, which are currently only in early stages of development, have been making headlines for beating humans at various tasks for more than a decade.</p><p>But the anticipation and excitement that follows each new AI development is also accompanied with fear<span style="background-color: #ffffff;"> - and for good reason. What garbage will be input into the machines? How will we choose to use these machines? Who will set AI's moral compass?</span></p><p>Some of the greatest minds of this century warn us that artificial intelligence is an "existential threat" to humanity. Stephen Hawking said in an interview with BBC in 2014, "Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks." During a 2015 Reddit AMA session, Bill Gates said, "I am in the camp that is concerned about super intelligence. First the machines will do a lot of jobs for us and not be super intelligent…A few decades after that through the intelligence is strong enough to be a concern."</p><p><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">We <em>should</em> be cautious of an entity that has the ability to evolve, grow, and learn faster than us. We <em>should</em> have built-in filters as an equivalent for a human's moral compass. We <em>should</em> protect ourselves from being either enslaved by or enamored with hyper-intelligent beings that we've created. </span></p><p>Elon Musk, in a 2014 interview at the AeroAstro Centennial Symposium voiced, "I'm increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don't do something very foolish."</p><p>Artificial Intelligence is no more science fiction or a technology from the distant future, it is very real.</p><p>The debate should be over how much we should fear, apprehend, and address a possible rise of artificial intelligence. 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