While it’s tempting to share a photo to prove your point, you ought to think through the potential repercussions.
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President Biden has resorted to extortion to destroy one of China’s leading digital companies ByteDance, the owner of the highly successful social media group, TikTok. Strongly backed by Congress, Biden insists ByteDance must be sold to an American company, or he will ban it in the US where it has 140 million monthly users. The Continue reading »
No, Elon, Japan is not a “leading indicator” just because of your billionaire vibes.
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The social media giant’s copyright infringement claim against GitHub shows that websites can be compelled to violate users' privacy.
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by Cole Thompson
Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is attracting great attention as working AI systems become accessible to the public. The AI claim is that it can digest the mass of knowledge that humanity has made public, then perform cognitive tasks with that knowledge or answer questions with speed and accuracy. This has many implications, some potentially worrisome. But when AI works well, it can serve up some interesting “truths.”
While AI does not generate authoritative or definitive information—you wouldn’t bet your savings on its output—my sense is that its findings often deserve a hearing.
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The United States’ issue with TikTok is uncannily reflective of its ongoing problem with China. It grew too fast for their comfort, is too economically and technologically successful and so deeply enmeshed in their lives that they felt the impulse to disengage. It evokes the same suspicion that engaging with something Chinese in origin must Continue reading »
AI-powered chatbots get science facts basically right, but their reasoning is still shallow.
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Two months ago, Musk said he was too busy to look into his company’s role in mass censorship in India. It’s only gotten worse.
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I’m downloading the large language model llama-13B-hf as we speak, hoping to get it going on the GPU I have for games. What strange gloss will they put on this moment in history, where machine-learning at home was enabledby videogame users who couldn’t bear to shift from general-purpose computing machines to consoles? My iron self-discipline […]
One question for David Krakauer, an evolutionary theorist and president of the Santa Fe Institute for complexity science.
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