“Tech experts are starting to doubt that ChatGPT and A.I. ‘hallucinations’ will ever go away: ‘This isn’t fixable’”
More accurately, AI researchers have always said that this isn’t fixable but y’all were too obsessed with listening to con artists to pay attention but now the con is wearing thin. https://fortune.com/2023/08/01/can-ai-chatgpt-hallucinations-be-fixed-experts-doubt-altman-openai/
“Watching as professional crybabies like Ben Shapiro tried to get people to boycott 'Barbie' because one of the actresses in the film (Hari Nef, who played Doctor Barbie) is trans, and seeing that has absolutely no effect on the film’s success demonstrates that the Bud Light and Target controversies and capitulations only became big deals because Bud Light and Target responded to the outrage as though it were genuine.”
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By focusing solely on China or Russia and other state actors, Canada is missing the potentially far more troubling forces that proved so disruptive during last year’s convoy protest, Susan Delacourt writes.
Found something remarkable (and also quite sad).
In 1997, Wired published "The Long Boom", a hyper-optimistic article about how we'd achieve Utopia by 2020.
The authors included notes on some "scenario spoilers"—negative events that might send is in a worse direction.
...and those spoilers turned out to be almost spookily accurate.
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WATCH: Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker says White House staffer yelled at him about a tweet on airport crowding.
“I got a call at about 11 o'clock last night after that tweet from a White House staffer who yelled at me about the tweet. That is what I got."
https://trib.al/1Xydl1y
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Undefeated . . . you don’t . . . you don’t stand up to a virus, Janna. It isn’t a bully. You don’t show it who’s boss by willingly transmitting it.
There’s herd immunity, sure. This is herd stupidity. https://twitter.com/sportspundette/status/1239054374791512064
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