DINNER PARTY INTEL: Return our heritage
France is passing a law to return African art looted from its former colonies
1. Return our heritage France is passing a law to return African art looted from its former colonies. "I cannot accept that a large part of African heritage is in France," President Emmanuel Macron said in Burkina Faso last year. The pressure is on other EU countries to do the same. Egypt wants the Rosetta Stone returned; Nigeria the Benin Bronzes; Ethiopia the Maqdala crown and a sacred lock of its emperor’s hair. The governor of Easter Island recently pleaded with the British Museum for the return of one of its famous stone head statues. "You have our soul," she said. Greece has long wanted the Parthenon Marbles returned, and India the Koh-i-Noor diamond, embedded in the British crown. 2. I’m human, I tell you Researchers recently wondered what might be a minimal version of the 1950 Turing test a person could come up with to tell whether they were talking to a computer or a human. What words people would actually say to convince a judge that it was a person and not a chatbot speak...
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