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futurism.com
> Google researchers have come out with a new paper that warns that generative AI is ruining vast swaths of the internet with fake content — which is painfully ironic because Google has been hard at work pushing the same technology to its enormous user base.
It never ceases to amaze me how trivial it is to get temporary control over a phone number, *or* that given how trivial it is that anyone trusts it for any kind of verification, and so as hilarious it is that the SEC didn't have 2FA set up, it's rather rich for X to claim it's nothing to do with them when they choose to trust a demonstrably unreliable method of proving ownership....
www.androidcentral.com
www.tomshardware.com
The world's fastest supercomputer blasts through one trillion parameter model with only 8 percent of its MI250X GPUs
arstechnica.com
*I* would still manage to break it with ease one week after purchase (and so will stick with my cheap Android phones)
www.theverge.com
"I can't let you drive there, Dave". As much as I love playing with ChatGPT, fuck this.
www.foxnews.com
Phrenology: The discredited, useless, racist pseudo-science, now in your dating app!
www.thedrive.com
Because what could *possibly* go wrong.
www.euronews.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/7027429 > ‘Groundbreaking’ bionic arm that fuses with user’s skeleton and nerves could advance amputee care::The bionic arm has been working for years, reducing the user’s level of pain. The first person to receive it tells how life changing it has been.
www.bloomberg.com
Archive link: https://archive.ph/8kHHX Given how Amazon treats its warehouse workers, clearly this is what will set off the robot uprising that kills us all.
www.theregister.com
Who knew they even *had* that many...
www.theverge.com
I don't mind the idea of charging for a *quality* service the least bit. But that requires offering a quality service *first*.
theconversation.com
A very long but fascinating overview of different attempts at autonomous, self-driving, and/or demand responsive app integrated public transport options. (ok, so you're probably a bit weird - like me - if you're fascinated by this)
www.wired.com
Archive link: http://archive.today/71fqd
www.zdnet.com
> "The areas of the MD network that were activated by reading code weren't the parts called on for maths, leaving an open question as to whether programming should be taught as a maths-based skill or a language-based skill." They tested with Python, so this doesn't really surprise me. I suspect strongly my own experience that testing with Python both under-estimates the language involvement vs. more linguistically expressive languages but also significantly under-estimates the maths involvement relative to more formal languages, especially function and array languages. There's a marked separation between developers who see maths as essential to programming vs. those who see it as a language thing. That they recruited from MIT, Tufts and immediate surroundings may well also affect their results. Would be interesting to see a broader study.
www.theverge.com
I'm *shocked*. *Shocked*, I tell you. I'd never imagine that nice Mr. Musk would do that... Oh? He's been a total ass to workers at his other companies too you say? No, say it isn't so...
