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AI Generating Misinformation: Are We Living in Absurdity?
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That is completely insane. Let AI make stuff up because people don't read good? Are we living in a Douglas Adams book?
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AI Content Production Crisis: 200 Articles Weekly Unsustainable
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200 articles? Assuming a 5 day week, an 8 hour day, and absolutely no breaks, that would be 5 articles an hour, or one every 12 minutes. Whoever does that job is a goddamn hero. Also, we are all fucked.
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Gemini: DeepMind Combines Language Models with Reinforcement Learning
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The next @deepmind algorithm, Gemini, may combine a powerful language model with cutting-edge reinforcement learning, perhaps helping with planning and memory. That's one thing I learned from a very interesting chat with @demishassabis recently.
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Pause AI: Protest Group Against AI Existential Risk
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Very interesting story by my @WIRED colleague @morganmeeker…Meet Pause AI, the Protest Group Campaigning Against Human Extinction | WIRED https://
wired.com/story/pause-ai
-existential-risk/
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Generative AI transforms how we edit and remember collective memories
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Lovely piece by @LaurenGoode on the way generative AI image and video editing will transform our collective memories.
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Luddites Opposed Technology Deployment, Not Automation Itself
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Interestingly (and perhaps very relevantly) the Luddites were not, in fact, opposed to the use of automation at all. I suspect the same is true of these writers. It's more a question of how technology is deployed and who it benefits from it. https://
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he-luddites-really-fought-against-264412/
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CNET Faces Backlash Over AI-Generated Content Use
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Here's a great story (written by the human @caitharr
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Google’s Foldable Device Innovation Emphasizes Software Integration
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Google’s mad folding tab-phone-let is actually about the software.