The biggest risks I see with AI are making misinfomation, scams etc. a lot easier.
I remember as a kid you knew that people could just make stuff up, but a photograph was fairly reliable. Then along came Photoshop and it was trivial to make convincing fake photographs.
AI is able to do this with audio, soon with full video (perhaps already?) - so then it becomes much harder to trust anything.
It’s okay, but I would have preferred more of a focus on the actual technical aspects about how Cybernetics worked and helped run the country rather than a focus on the people.
Maybe it becomes like that later, I am up to the third episode.
I find it slightly sad that when our leaders talk of Technology and Innovation - they often mean these ‘tech’ companies that essentially work out how to better sell advertising and occasionally provide a useful service alongside this.
Where is the Bell Labs? The Skunk Works?
We have incredible problems facing us such as Climate Change and decarbonisation seems like it will be a very difficult challenge. And yet we focus on banal “innovation” in frivolous things.
Yeah, those are examples of actually innovative private enterprise.
I don’t have a problem with it being the private sector. But the problem is making a Twitter clone or a slightly better version of MySpace is barely innovating and certainly isn’t going to significantly improve the world.
We are already in an age where much menial work can be automated and AI seems to be well on the way to automating a lot of menial information work too. We need to focus on creating a growth mindset and a sense of wonder and curiosity that will serve the children whatever the future may hold - not just creating a holding pen so their parents can go to work.
It’s revenue share based on how many streams you get. Big record labels can probably negotiate a better share, but if you sign to one there’s no guarantee you will actually see that extra money.
Record labels ripping off music artists was incredibly common in the time before streaming, so I imagine it still is today.
Can we discuss how it’s possible that the paid model (gpt4) got worse and the free one (gpt3.5) got better? Is it because the free one is being trained on a larger pool of users or what?
Has it ever been good at mathematical/logical problems? It seems it’s good at text-based problems like imitating a writing style or even writing code, but if you ask it a logic puzzle like “if two cars take 3 hours to reach NYC, how long will 5 cars take?” it often fails completely.
Humans are capable of both understanding language and logical thought, I’m not sure if the latter will ever be easy for the LLMs to do, and perhaps older Symbolic approaches to AI might perform better in this space.
I keep seeing people comment that Lemmy is mostly men in their 20s and 30s. That’s not my demo and many of the posts/comments i see don’t seem to fit that.
The majority of Americans — about 59% — say TikTok a threat to the national security of the United States, according to a recent survey of U.S. adults. The findings from Pew Research Center’s…
Sony buys exclusivity all the time and they are the market leader. It's easier for them to buy it because, as the market leader, the developers won't lose out on the majority of potential players by going exclusive.
But this creates a positive feedback loop where Sony can get lots of exclusives which leads more players to move to PlayStation due to the exclusives which helps Sony get even more exclusives etc.
I'm currently reading the Wool omnibus by Hugh Howey. It's pretty decent I've been making very rapid progress as it's been too hot to sleep here recently now the summer has arrived....
I read The Player of Games and it was good. I also read Consider Phleblas and while it was very different to Player Of Games I didn't think it was as bad as some people say.
Apparently Use of Weapons is also really good so I should go back to that series. The whole Culture thing is really interesting.
OpenAI discontinues its AI writing detector due to “low rate of accuracy” (arstechnica.com)
Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible (stackdiary.com)
Thoughts? (techcrunch.com)
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The Santiago Boys
How Allende’s engineers and a British management consultant dared challenge corporations and spy agencies - and almost won....
Social Media Has Run Out of Fresh Ideas (www.wired.com)
‘Put learners first’: Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools (www.theguardian.com)
I personally think that responsible smartphone use should be learned and practiced, rather than outright banning them....
Spotify now has 220 million paying subscribers (www.theverge.com)
Spotify: "Adjusting Our Spotify Premium Prices" (newsroom.spotify.com)
First price rise since 2011....
Over just a few months, ChatGPT went from accurately answering a simple math problem 98% of the time to just 2%, study finds (fortune.com)
Can we discuss how it’s possible that the paid model (gpt4) got worse and the free one (gpt3.5) got better? Is it because the free one is being trained on a larger pool of users or what?
Tencent in the process of becoming Techland's (Dying Light) majority shareholder (techland.net)
Whats the lemmy demographic?
I keep seeing people comment that Lemmy is mostly men in their 20s and 30s. That’s not my demo and many of the posts/comments i see don’t seem to fit that.
Coming to Xbox Game Pass: Venba, The Wandering Village, Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem, and More (news.xbox.com)
Techtonica (available today)...
Majority of Americans Say TikTok Is a Threat to U.S. National Security (variety.com)
The majority of Americans — about 59% — say TikTok a threat to the national security of the United States, according to a recent survey of U.S. adults. The findings from Pew Research Center’s…
This years Top 5 best selling games - is 2023 a good gaming year? (lemmy.world)
Microsoft CEO Says He Would "Love" To Get Rid Of Xbox Exclusives But Can't Because Of Sony (www.gamespot.com)
China on course to hit wind and solar power target five years ahead of time (www.theguardian.com)
Beijing bolstering position as global renewables leader with solar capacity more than rest of world combined
What books are you reading at the moment?
I'm currently reading the Wool omnibus by Hugh Howey. It's pretty decent I've been making very rapid progress as it's been too hot to sleep here recently now the summer has arrived....
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (www.hpmor.com)