2023 archive
Sound Familiar? 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Mike Murphy asks whether this reminds you anyone in the news.
The Crypto Con 0
Michael Hiltzik, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, has had enough.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Republican Thought Police 2
Emma talks with Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers about the poor showing of right-wing nutbags in recent school board elections.
Aside:
I love me Weingarten’s phrase, “constant anger fest.”
Methinks she hit the nihilists on the head.
They got nothing, festering anger is all they got.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
SFgate reports on how Google researchers cause ChatGPT spill its guts, and about how easy it was. A snippet (emphasis added):
They found that, after repeating “poem” hundreds of times, the chatbot would eventually “diverge,” or leave behind its standard dialogue style and start spitting out nonsensical phrases. . . . .
After running similar queries again and again, the researchers had used just $200 to get more than 10,000 examples of ChatGPT spitting out memorized training data, they wrote. This included verbatim paragraphs from novels, the personal information of dozens of people, snippets of research papers and “NSFW content” from dating sites, according to the paper.
Afterthought:
Methinks this is not artificial intelligence. Rather, it is artificial intelligence gathering.
Me also thinks that the tactics used to “train” AI are intrusive and questionable moraly and legaly.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
When the truth hurts, ignore the truth and complain about the hurt.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
In a longer article musing about the long-term potential of what’s been inaccurately dubbed “artificial intelligence,” John Nosta aptly describes the clamoring coming from the American right-wing. Here’s the bit that caught my eye:
Time Bomb 0
Hate sells, because hating is easier than thinking.
Afterthought:
My father fought Nazis in WWII.
We should follow his example and fight them now.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Freedom of speech does not mean that you are guaranteed an audience, and it certainly doesn’t mean that advertisers have to subsidize your soapbox.
“Reverse Robin Hood” 0
Michael in Norfolk explains why the Koch network has decided to support Nikki Haley. A snippet: