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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Social media users in Israel are increasingly using platforms like Facebook and Instagram to launch hate speech at Palestinians.
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Sad about the District Court decision in Hachette vs. Internet Archive; not just because of the ruling against the Archive, but because of many people’s reaction to it online. People have strange intuitions, not just about the status of the law, but also of how it progresses. There’s some tut-tutting that an august institution like […]