SONG: FAQs
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SOURCE: Based on Popular Science, 14 Aug 2023, “School district uses ChatGPT to help remove library books,”… Read the rest “SONG: FAQs”
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Science Art: Information Display front cover, 1972
This is the cover of the 1972 March/April issue of Information Display, Vol 9 No 2, from archive.org.
Stories inside include ways to project different-sized letters on a cathode-ray screen,… Read the rest “Science Art: Information Display front cover, 1972”
ChatGPT, the Fahrenheit 451 edition
Popular Science discusses a school board in Iowa using ChatGPT to itemize the books that should be removed from library shelves because they ‘contain a description or depiction … Read the rest “ChatGPT, the Fahrenheit 451 edition”
Wanna watch the watchers?
The Markup is making an offer to anyone with a Facebook account – even an inactive one. Previously, they mapped out how the Meta Pixel (formerly the Facebook Pixel) gathered people’s… Read the rest “Wanna watch the watchers?”
AI trained on AI tends to collapse (like most cannibalizing systems do).
Venture Beat, a tech investing magazine, weighs in on research that looks directly at the problems that arise when AI is used to generate web content, which is then gathered up and used to … Read the rest “AI trained on AI tends to collapse (like most cannibalizing systems do).”
AI is eating the web. Not as in coding, but as in its economy.
The Verge has one of the more interesting pieces (to me) about AI that I’ve seen lately, reporting less on “what do these content-making machines mean to us content-makers,… Read the rest “AI is eating the web. Not as in coding, but as in its economy.”
SONG: Content Feeds
SONG: “Content Feeds”.
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SOURCE: The Markup, 1 May 2023, “The Very Hungry Algorithm: Bedtime with ChatGPT,” as used in the post “How do you feel … Read the rest “SONG: Content Feeds”
How do you feel when the AI starts reading your young children their bedtime stories?
As The Markup points out, this is no longer a hypothetical question, but an actual parenting challenge now:
… Read the rest “How do you feel when the AI starts reading your young children their bedtime stories?”I made a note to ask his teacher the following week, and imagine my surprise when
The smarter the brain, the longer it takes to solve a hard problem.
The Berlin Institute of Health has a new metric for intelligence. It’s not speed at solving problems, but the opposite. Higher intelligence means simple problems get solved quickly,… Read the rest “The smarter the brain, the longer it takes to solve a hard problem.”
ChatGPT flunks Martin Gardner’s old brainteasers.
If you’re a longtime Scientific American reader, or just a geek of a certain age, you’ll remember Martin Gardner’s “Mathematical Games” puzzle column.… Read the rest “ChatGPT flunks Martin Gardner’s old brainteasers.”
U.S. Marshals use Twitter partner to scope out abortion-rights protestors.
The Intercept has found that Dataminr, an “official partner” of Twitter, has been collecting information on abortion protests for federal law enforcement by paying close… Read the rest “U.S. Marshals use Twitter partner to scope out abortion-rights protestors.”
The internet isn’t all bots. It’s about *half* bots.
Security Magazine evaluates (using Imperva’s Bad Bot Report) just how much internet traffic comes from humans, and how much is automatically generated machines. The latest results… Read the rest “The internet isn’t all bots. It’s about *half* bots.”
China makes first ChatGPT arrest – for manufacturing fake news.
Vice‘s Motherboard covers what is probably the first-ever AI-related arrest, by Chinese officials who accuse a man of using the software to mass-produce fake news:
… Read the rest “China makes first ChatGPT arrest – for manufacturing fake news.”The man, who
An AI fighter plane has taken off, engaged a simulated enemy and landed without a human pilot’s help.
DARPA reports on the Air Combat Evolution program’s newest breakthrough, which took a regular F-16 fighter jet, equipped it with an Artificial Intelligence program capable of … Read the rest “An AI fighter plane has taken off, engaged a simulated enemy and landed without a human pilot’s help.”
Study: ChatGPT could earn an MBA from Wharton
A professor at the prestigious Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania – probably America’s most highly regarded business school – has found … Read the rest “Study: ChatGPT could earn an MBA from Wharton”