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Law Enforcement Adopts Metaverse for Training and Crime Prevention

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01 December 2022 8h08

The #metaverse offers #law enforcement agencies the opportunity to learn more about how to fight #crime online, and also enables virtual #training on real-world #policing situations. Here’s how policing organizations are starting to join the metaverse. https://
linkedin.com/pulse/policing
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Turing test and human false confidence about cars in space

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01 December 2022 4h15

Passing the Turing test isn’t really the goal — e.g. it doesn’t try to fake a realistic amount of ignorance about the birthdates of US presidents. But if it were, it would pass here: many humans would tell you, confidently, that there are no cars in space.

NeurIPS hybrid conference format criticism virtual talks live posters

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01 December 2022 3h11

Apparently some people’s idea of a good hybrid conference is that all the talks are virtual and only the posters are live. Not kidding: that’s NeurIPS this year.

NeurIPS demotes sponsors to exhibitors over industrial concerns

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01 December 2022 3h06

NeurIPS sponsors this year were demoted to exhibitors, because we don’t like to soil ourselves with industrial ties.

NeurIPS Auto Captioning System Mistranslates Conference Name

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01 December 2022 2h57

The NeurIPS auto captioning system translates “in NeurIPS” as “in Europe’s”, proving once again that the new name doesn’t cause any confusion.

NeurIPS Attendance Drops Significantly in 2022

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01 December 2022 2h52

NeurIPS attendance (real + virtual) is down by more than a third this year.