'A Rainy Day' was a chapter in Radiant Reader. It said 'A rainy day is a gloomy day' but for me rainy days were fun. This confused me so much I still remember it. Our teacher didn't clarify the writer was based in London. So important for educational content to be contextualised
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Sundar Pichai’s Series of Controversial Decisions and Reversals
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Sundar Pichai's bad calls keep piling up:
– Withdrawing from defense work and then backtracking
– Firing James Damore
– Working on a censored version of Google for China and then backtracking
– Not releasing LaMDA to the public
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Morty’s take on Anthropic’s Constitutional AI for AI safety
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Or, if you prefer, in the style of Morty: "But I guess Anthropic's researchers are hoping that Constitutional AI and this principles-based approach is the way to go to keep AI systems like me from destroying humanity or something."
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AI-Generated Images: Training on Limited Data Sets
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No she does exist, but it's trained on 20 pics of her and this is AI output
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ICML2023 Bans ChatGPT for Scientific Paper Writing
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The #ChatGPT controversy continues. Authors are prohibited from using #AI tools to "write" scientific papers for the #ICML2023 conference. Concerns include authorship, ownership and reliability. http://
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AI Image Generation and Copyright Legal Responsibility
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#28 ¿LO QUE QUIERAS…? ¿No vendrá Disney contra mi por usar una imagen de Micky? Bueno, sí. Igual que si lo dibujas y te lucraras de ello. Hasta que legalmente todo quede más claro, lo mejor es usar estas herramientas con la misma responsabilidad que Photoshop.
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Square Tablets Tipping Tech Impact on Wage Fairness
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the tipping discourse is complex (anything that helps people get more more tips is good! also: tipping is a way for employers to pay unfair wages!) i think this is an important point about the square tablets and what the tech does
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Beyond Metrics: Evaluating Research Quality in AI
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Worth repeating. If the only positive things you can say about a researcher is that they have many papers or citations, then either:
a) you don't know their work very well
b) they haven't done much interesting work
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Writers Must Lead the ChatGPT Conversation, Not Ignore It
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A lot of writers have avoided talking about the AIs, myself included, for a long time But ChatGPT is happening, with or w/out us After thinking hard about it, I decided I'd rather be a leader here and help people navigate this situation rather than sit back and watch it unfold.