"It’s increasingly looking like this may be one of the most hilariously inappropriate applications of AI that we’ve seen yet." I am riveted by the extensive documentation of how ChatGPT-powered Bing is now completely unhinged. @simon has chronicled it beautifully here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/
"...While very primitive, the #AI behind #SocialMedia was sufficient to create a curtain of illusions that increased societal #polarization, undermined our mental health and unraveled democracy. Millions of people have confused these #illusions with reality. [Willingly, and often even fanatically.]
The United States has the best information technology in history, yet U.S. citizens can...
Dis :mastodon:, ce serait très gentil de ta part de prendre connaissance du poste ci-dessous, et de le partager en masse.
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Do we only hear sounds? Or can we also hear silence? These questions are the subject of a centuries-old philosophical debate between two camps: the perceptual view (we literally hear silence), and the cognitive view (we only judge or infer silence). Here, we take an empirical approach to resolve this theoretical controversy. We...
What a surprise after years of Tory cuts to local government funding while loading them with responsibilities. And it has a knock on effect of Scottish, Welsh and NI local government as well. More to come.
But what is a bit of neglect if you can pretend to cut taxes for the richest while hiding effective rises for the majority of us.
The perception of silence (www.pnas.org)
Do we only hear sounds? Or can we also hear silence? These questions are the subject of a centuries-old philosophical debate between two camps: the perceptual view (we literally hear silence), and the cognitive view (we only judge or infer silence). Here, we take an empirical approach to resolve this theoretical controversy. We...