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Threepeat(onelook.com)
2 points by dougb5 2y ago|0 comments
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by dougb5 2y ago
Arcade Fire did a good job capturing this wistfulness in "We Used to Wait" from 2010. Recommended: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs11Bp1RkpU
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The A.I. Power Grab(nytimes.com)
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by dougb5 2y ago
> "You don’t care about the goal to begin with" This seems key. Are there options in your area for work with goals you do care about?
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by dougb5 2y ago
I grew up where it was invented, but I first learned of crokinole in the memorable lyrics of Moxy Fruvous, in which they manage to rhyme it with "princess of Monaco". Recommended, especially if you're from Toronto: https:&
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AI's Big Gift to Society Is Pithy Summaries?(wired.com)
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I Quit Teaching Because of ChatGPT(time.com)
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by dougb5 2y ago
There may be a story, and I'm sure she worded the message carefully, but I don't see any reason to doubt she worded it herself. "Create the time and space to do my own exploration" is beautiful compared to the usual. T
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by dougb5 2y ago
People are frequently wrong in the same way in environments where they are easily influenced by each other like social media. That's part of why these models, especially early on, exhibited so many racial and gender biases.
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RIP Journalist, Editor and Counterculture Enthusiast, Steve Silberman(relix.com)
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MIT undergraduate admissions in the wake of the 2023 Supreme Court ruling(news.mit.edu)
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What Teachers Told Me About A.I. In School(nytimes.com)
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The internet is mostly complete. Where does tech go from here?(noahpinion.blog)
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by dougb5 2y ago
https://archive.is/ElVeA
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Generative AI can't cite its sources(theatlantic.com)
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by dougb5 2y ago
Regarding "it would be impossible to train today's leading AI models": OpenAI has a pattern of equating humanity's progress with their own progress in their corporate communication. A similar instance that bugs me is on
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Altman, Huffington launching AI health coach(thehill.com)
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by dougb5 2y ago
The paper that is the basis for the article and which it cites in the second paragraph ( https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01446-z ) uses time series data going back to 1985 ( https://www.nature.com&#x
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by dougb5 2y ago
From the linked research: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01446-z "Nearly all orange streams occur in remote areas, tens to hundreds of kilometers from land-use impacts such as mining or roads... Impo
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by dougb5 2y ago
They do, but they charge a license fee to access it ( https://www.ap.org/content/archive/how-to-access/ ) much less download it. Newswire seems to include a large subset of the part of this archive that is ou
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by dougb5 2y ago
It's disappointing. A year is enough time for them to have collected some real data on whether this has made kids worse or better at math or moved the needle at all. If they don't have this data yet, why are they blasting into
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by dougb5 2y ago
> As we come to the end of our first full pilot school year, we’re enthusiastic about Khanmigo’s ability to tutor in math Are there RCT results (or any results) showing the impact on students?
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by dougb5 2y ago
Great article, thanks. For me personally, the author nails it with this: "But in practice, maybe they lose a sense of orientation?" Infinite scroll just makes me feel bad, like I'm lost at sea and getting farther and farthe
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Google dropping continuous scroll in search results(searchengineland.com)
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Creative workers deserve better than a choice as to who rips them off(pluralistic.net)
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by dougb5 2y ago
It's not a person's name, I know, but, you could say that Wordle makes Taylor Swift look like Ilya Sutskever: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&ge...
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by dougb5 2y ago
Fair enough, and it's not worse than a lot of other product marketing messages about AI these days. But you can be intrinsically motivated by a problem without believing that other problems are somehow less important than yours.
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by dougb5 2y ago
I largely agree, although I do see how AI can help with social coordination problems, for example by helping elected leaders be more responsive to what their constituents need. (I spend a lot of my own time working with researchers at that
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by dougb5 2y ago
> Building safe superintelligence (SSI) is the most important technical problem of our time. Call me a cranky old man but the superlatives in these sorts of announcements really annoy me. I want to ask: Have you surveyed every probl
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by dougb5 2y ago
https://archive.is/2024.06.07-190442/https://www.chronicle.c...

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