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I like to think I'm clever, but probably 99% of my cleverness is just me remembering how someone else handled something.
The Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court wasn't so much using his "ingenuity" as he was flexing his knowledge of history.
[I am that Yankee.]
https://twitter.com/kdacar/status/1563391979823984640?t=pGNc5SkVsb0IW4d56qM95A&s=19
The Turing Test poisoned the minds of generations of AI enthusiasts, because its criteria is producing text that persuades observers it was written by a human.
The result? Generative AI text products designed to "appear real" rather than produce accurate or ethical outputs.
It *should* be obvious why it's problematic to create a piece of software that excels at persuasion without concern for accuracy, honesty or ethics. But apparently it's not.
Today’s Google Doodle honors Jerry Lawson, the black video game pioneer that worked on the Fairchild Channel F (1976)
He would have been 82 today (1940-2011). The Doodle lets you play a neat Mario Maker-style game
I interviewed Lawson in 2009: https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/545/vcg-interview-jerry-lawson-black-video-game-pioneer
This photo sent back by NASA's Orion spacecraft is marvelous.
A camera carried by the craft is looking back at the Moon and Earth as the mission reaches its maximum distance of about 270k miles.
There's no one on board, but this is the furthest a spacecraft meant for humans has travelled from Earth.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will vote soon on a policy that would allow the San Francisco Police Department to use deadly force by arming its many robots. This is a spectacularly dangerous idea and EFF’s stance is clear: police should not arm robots.TAKE ACTIONEMAIL YOUR SUPERVISOR: don'...
@ygalanter @parismarx anybody ready for a Social media platform that actively discriminates against the uber-rich?
Simple rules, you can be banned for being worth more than a $100,000,000. Either as and individual or a corporation. Or maybe they can be on the system in read-only mode so they can hear from the poors but can't preach or lie to them.
Just spit balling. Not suggesting that we basically do this for all of society and lock the uber-rich out of everything...
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