Jed Hartman
@elysdir
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Editor, writer, reader, generalist, logophile, paronomasiac, ludophile. Bi, poly. Pronouns: he/him. I don’t speak for my employer.
Sumana Harihareswara
Jen SimmonsHave you ever wished the browser would look at a background color and pick black or white for the text — whichever one provides more contrast? Now, the `contrast-color()` function in CSS does just that.
Peter ButlerOf all of the dystopian sci-fi robot takeover fantasies, I’m not sure I’ve read one where computers destroy the world simply by making stuff up:
Researchers say AI transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
Whisper is a popular transcription tool powered by artificial intelligence, but it has a major flaw. It makes things up that were never said. Whisper was created by OpenAI. It's being used in many industries worldwide to translate and transcribe interviews, generate text in popular consumer technologies and create subtitles for videos. OpenAI has promoted Whisper as having near “human level robustness and accuracy." But more than a dozen computer scientists and software developers tell The Associated Press that isn’t always the case and that it's prone to making up chunks of text and even entire sentences. An OpenAI spokesperson says the company studies how to reduce that and updates its models incorporating feedback received.
A friend told me the other day that something I'd said had come across as pressure/persuasion; I hadn't intended it that way. When we talked about it, they reflected that their pre-existing brain tendencies played a big part in that. Lessons learned from family, and from society more broadly, plus mental health issues, led them to hear me sharing information about an option and feed it into an existing, well-oiled stimulus-response dynamic.
This sort of thing happens frequently! Unnoticed! 1/n
https://www.standupstandup.tech/
A fundraising drive for the US Election Protection Hotline.
Not a US resident or US citizen? Hate all the major parties? No problem! You can donate!
Then watch 8 minutes of nerd jokes about open source software and how programming skews your brain, and none about politics.
Otherwise AwardNews:
📝 Apply for the 2024 Otherwise Fellowships by Dec. 15th
🎉 Welcome our new Motherboard member, Julia Rios @omgjulia
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📅 Submit recommendations (for the Otherwise jury to consider) by Nov. 15th
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Yoko's Asterisk 🏳️⚧Writers With Drinks is BACK this Tuesday at 7 PM at Strut (470 Castro St) for #bannedbooksweek.
Readings by Maia Kobabe, Jaime Cortez, Susan Stryker, Kemi Ashing-Giwa, Tara Sim and Annalee Newitz. FREE, donations to Strut encouraged. Masks required. Book sales by Fabulosa Books 😍
SEE YOU TUESDAY!
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Mar HicksNot sure how many who follow me here are receptive to this message but: covid is surging rn across the US. If you haven’t been wearing a mask, please start. It’ll help break transmission chains & make it less likely your actions disable or kill someone. It’ll also protect you, of course. 3M Auras are an N95 you can get at most Home Depots. They’re very effective. If you prefer black they also sell BNX N95s in black. I’m not a fan of Home Depot but it’s ubiquitous so I’m using it as an example.
Ruth Watson