Can we please just create a non-carbon, clean and low-cost perpetual energy source that we can make available for all humans and call it a day?
"Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence”
> OpenAI's stated mission is to create the artificial general intelligence, or AGI. Demis Hassabis, the leader of Google's AI efforts, has the same goal. Now, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is entering the race.
Guess who's in Iowa doing exactly as we thought he would: Inciting violence.
Ding! You're the smartest social media in class!
Via Acyn:
While ranting about the latest news in his New York civil trial, #Trump reads a statement calling for the arrest and punishment of the judge and Attorney General of New York
#KennethSmith, a prisoner on death row in #Alabama who survived a previous state execution attempt by lethal injection in Nov. '22, is set to be executed by a "new method" on Jan. 25 that deprives the person of #oxygen by placing a mask over their face and pumping in pure #nitrogen gas.
No one knows what the process will be like or how it was developed. Alabama apparently lacks all of the resources it needs for lethal injection, as do other states.
Surreale la sensazione provata guardando la folla argentina che applaudiva in piazza il suo Trump autoctono mentre annunciava una feroce macelleria sociale con povertà, disoccupazione e inflazione come “ultimo boccone amaro” da mandare giù prima del ritorno agli antichi splendori. #idiocracy ai massimi livelli, ma ormai non fa più ridere e mette la pelle d’oca pensando all’Italia.
Seriously Wacom, what wild lapse of judgement in your addled mind made you think it was a smart idea to make an update to generate random punctuation characters everywhere a person taps with their pen?! And why the hell have you not rolled back this ridiculous update yet? Do you guys not test ANYTHING these days?! #wacom#ui#idiocracy
“Women doesn’t bother to look at GPS screen to verify what it is instructing and instead unconditionally entrusts her sovereign decision-making authority to an unthinking machine whose only motivation is to calculate the technically shortest travelling distance to a destination” #AnyonesFaultButMine #WhatHappenedToTrustButVerify #Idiocracy
A month after federal officials recommended new versions of COVID-19 vaccines, 7% of U.S. adults and 2% of children have gotten a shot.
One expert called the rates “abysmal.”
The numbers, presented last week at a meeting held by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, come from a national survey of thousands of Americans.
@Free_Press
CDC and FDA, under political control have screwed the message. RWNJ media screaming voices have denigrated health/science. Since day one, it's only the flu, drink bleach, take ivermectin/hydroxychloroquine/silver/urine, masks don't work, brawndo. Freedum! ! #PublicHealth#IDIOCRACY
Ca vous arrive parfois au travail de parler boulot avec des collègues ou des clients et personne ne comprend ce que vous dites alors que c'est la base de leur métier ? Et bien j'ai que ça aujourd'hui. Je vous jure que ça me file des crises d'angoisse. Il y a des jours je me sens vraiment comme le Roi Arthur dans Kaamelott. C'est flippant.
If you own an Alexa, you might enjoy its integration with #IFTTT, an easy scripting environment that lets you create your own little voice-controlled apps, like "start my Roomba" or "close the garage door." If so, tough shit, Amazon just nuked IFTTT for Alexa:
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#idiocracy in real life. These women need shamed. Follow them around with a brass band driving her, her family, friends, and coworkers crazy. Create so much chaos around these people, no one wants to be around them. Follow them place to place with tubas until they crack and go insane.
Everyone seems to be caught up in the AI Utopia hopium, when they should be paying attention to the error rate of ChatGPT.
OpenAI's ChatGPT can actually make workers perform worse, a new study found
and before anyone cries "but they used GPT-3. GPT-4 is clearly better. Not fair!". They tested GPT-4.
To test this, researchers randomly assigned 758 consultants at BCG across one of three groups: one with no access to AI; one with access to ChatGPT powered by GPT-4; and one with access to ChatGPT, as well as instructional videos and documents on prompt engineering strategies.
Not from the Onion : Ukrainian soldiers are opening up American 155-mm M864 cluster shells presumably in order to use its submunitions as independent lethal weapons for dropping from copters.