Maybe the reason there is no principled solution to AI hallucinations is that we cannot create artificial human minds.
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Journalist Michael Grunwald points out that factory farming means fewer natural spaces are cleared for farmland than would otherwise be the case.
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Reflecting on his 100-hour workweeks and legal battles, he cautions against solo ventures without financial and legal backing.
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Last March, it came out that the US Treasury Department had sent a list of “hate groups” to major US banks; more recently, a number of crypto firms were hit.
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For example. they would ask questions like, why are manhole covers round?
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AI is going to both create and destroy businesses. An interesting victim of AI is the academic assistance business. Academic dishonesty, the dark side of academic assistance, is a fancy term for cheating. With profit-motivated websites like Chegg.com, cheating became easier. When taking an exam, a student could take a photo of a difficult problem and send it to Chegg. In literally minutes, the student would be sent the answer over a cell phone. How do they do it? Often Chegg employs smart nerds from poor countries who, by local standards, are paid big bucks for their efforts. To use Chegg, a subscription is needed. But why include a human in the loop when AI can give you a quicker Read More ›
True believers don’t focus on short-term trends because they aren’t very positive. But short-term trends should be consistent with a long-term forecast.
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Metcalfe’s Law of IT growth begins with the fact that one fax machine — for example — is useless. Two help a bit but millions of them made a difference.
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Not only isn’t there a huge commercial market for digital plagiarism by chatbots, they are attracting huge copyright lawsuits instead.
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Mead never saw technology research as a left-brained thing; for him, he says, it is a matter of love. It only sounds simple afterward.
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What if a private craft is the first to discover extraterrestrial life? What laws apply?
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As developers ponder how to produce graphene in large quantities, trend watchers wonder whether Silicon Valley will one day be Graphene Valley.
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The report discusses long-term health risks and malpractice issues, demonstrating how the conjoining of big profits and radical ideology is a toxic mix.
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For example, the baseball player with the highest batting average in any season generally does not do as well the season before or the season after.
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The platform continues to grow — and may be evolving into a new type of medium — but first it must survive massive industry hostility.
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The judge ruled that Google operates unlawfully: It effectively excludes competitors while its prices and services are unresponsive to consumer market demands.
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Some think that continued progress toward human-like thinking is inevitable but that’s becoming more a matter of faith than technology.
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Gary Marcus argues that Big Tech got rich, largely on promises, without confronting the known limits of artificial intelligence.
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Two things we can be sure of: Things that can’t go on forever won’t. And even artificial intelligence can’t make hype into reality.
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The current, widely-favored 60/40 strategy has little or nothing to recommend it beyond the fact that it is what everyone else is doing.
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