Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Compassionate? El Reg reports
Researchers affiliated with Compassion Aligned Machine Learning (CaML) and the University of Warwick in the UK set out to measure the extent to which AI models demonstrate compassion. They describe their work in a preprint paper titled “HarvestBench: Measuring Whether LLM Agents Will Pay to Avoid Killing Animals.”
Follow the link for more about their experiments.
An Inquiring Mind Wants To Know . . . . 0
Sara Pequeño has a question:
Follow the link to see why she asks it.
Lies and Lying Liars 0
Michael in Norfolk offers a litany of Trumped-up tales.
The Merry-Go-Round 0
George Santayana famously said,
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Via the Miami Herald, Jackie Calmes offers evidence that Santayana was right.
The Rule of Lawless, Republican Thought Police Dept. 0
Thom discusses how the Trump maladministration is intentionally misinterpreting the equal time rule so as to exercise its freedom of repress (before moving on to a couple of other equally vile items).
The Art of the Steal 0
Afterthought:
I reckon it really should suprise noone that Donald Trump thinks it’s okay for him to bribe persons for their votes.
Stray Thought 0
When I worked for the railroad, I often took the train to New York City on business. The first sign that we were nearing our destination was the twin towers of the World Trade Center looming over the bluffs of Jew Jersey before we plunged into the tunnel to Penn Station.
The last time I made that trip, long after I left the railroad, there was nothing.
Just the plunge into the tunnel.
Immunity Impunity
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At El Reg, Thomas Claburn looks at AI and posits that
Methinks he has a point. Follow the link for his reasoning.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid,
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you, brother,
You won’t find one without the other.
Sloptocracy 0
Thom talks with Heidi Siegmund Cuda about how the Trump maladministration is using AI slop to pollute the polity.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Jim Hightower hears some rhymes with history in this new gilded age. Here’s a couple:
Follow the link for the context of his remarks.
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*Mark Twain.
QOTD 0
Wilkie Collins:
Aside:
He wrote that over a century and a half ago. Wonder what he would think about today . . . .
A Tune for the Times 0
Warning: Mild language.