Jose M.

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The comments in this post just tell me how accustomed we are to the most superficial use of computers.

Reminds me of Silo.

I can only imagine what we could do if we had the epiphany of what we can do with it.

https://lobste.rs/s/fvnuvm/xerox_smalltalk_80_gui_was_weird

#computing #smalltalk #programming

The Xerox Smalltalk-80 GUI Was Weird | Lobsters

Bay Area woman on a crusade to prove Yelp reviews can't be trusted

San Francisco-based Yelp is up against a former government investigator who is on a yearslong crusade to prove that online reviews can't be trusted.

SFGATE

And just as I wrote yesterday on using AI to fix AI issues, OpenAI releases a paper on an approach to do just that:

https://openai.com/research/improving-mathematical-reasoning-with-process-supervision

#ai #openai #aitofixai

Improving mathematical reasoning with process supervision

We've trained a model to achieve a new state-of-the-art in mathematical problem solving by rewarding each correct step of reasoning (“process supervision”) instead of simply rewarding the correct final answer (“outcome supervision”). In addition to boosting performance relative to outcome supervision, process supervision also has an important alignment benefit: it directly trains the model to produce a chain-of-thought that is endorsed by humans.

I wish people would perceive any AI issues - take hallucinations as an example - as a problem that would be solved by another AI or more specifically, another AI algorithm.

Take ChatGPT which is really GPT + RL. Transformers are incredible but equally impressive are RLs. What would a second pass through RLs do for source verification? And that's assuming that the RL already in place - mostly done by human testers, btw - isn't enough to handle all current issues.

#AI #RL #GPT #ChatGPT

Learning about Hedy.

https://hedy.org/

It’s rather beautiful.

#hedy #programming #education

Hedy - Textual programming made easy

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Will the EU stop using Windows? What's the alternative? Will they stop using Google? Will they stop using Chrome?

Could someone please send those regulators a copy of von Neumann's Theory of Games and Economic Behavior? The guy is rolling in his grave.

#ai #eu #EUAIAct #OpenAI #Microsoft #Google #Meta #Deepmind

AI Comes Before EU
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Folks, is it me or is the EU AI Act like an episode of Tom and Jerry? Let me be clear, the EU is in no position to dictate anything to an AI company it doesn't have jurisdiction over. While they're rushing to edit the last details of the act out - probably with ChatGPT - Microsoft this week is demoing Copilot - think of it as ChatGPT for everything you do on a computer - as core of Windows 11 which is scheduled in beta next month and out to all by December.
#ai #EUAIAct

What's not talked about enough is the changes this and other drugs have over gut microbiome and the effect it has on us.

Free will is an illusion, so much so that we convince ourselves we're our own masters.

More on this soon.

In the meantime...

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/05/ozempic-addictive-behavior-drinking-smoking/674098/

#ozempic #glp1 #microbiome #vagusnerve #freewill

Could Ozempic Also Be an Anti-addiction Drug?

People taking Ozempic for weight loss say they have also stopped drinking, smoking, shopping, and even nail biting.

The Atlantic