Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A learning aid? At the Psychology Today website, Timothy Cook (no, not that Tim Cook) reports that “AI use can raise scores in the short term but worsen kids’ thinking abilities in the long term, studies find.”
Follow the link for mere.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
“Responsible gun owners” decide to frighten Fourth of July festival with a doppelganger of a portable phallus.
The Marguis de Sade would be envious.
The Rule of Lawless, Notion of Immigrants Dept. 0
According to an article in The Hill, the Squeaker of the House thinks that Congress can find some way to amend the Constitution all on its ownsome in the face of the Supreme Supremacist Court’s ruling that Donald Trump does not have the power to amend it himself.
The Squeaker points to the scourge of “birth tourism,” which, according to figures in the article, amounts to approximately 0.7% of babies born in the U. S. every year–this from the same people who are claiming that too few babies are born in the U. S. every year.
Left unsaid is what’s truly behind the Republican panic propaganda about this issue. Left unsaid is their actual selling point:
- Far too many these babies may be (gasp!) Not White.
They’re selling hate, and they have far too many eager buyers.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Capable of critical thought? Zeynep Tufekci argues that (emphasis added)
Large language models are not reasoning machines. They’re plausibility engines. They can only assess which answers are probable, based on the data on which the models have been trained.
Follow the link for his arguements.
And, in more news of AI . . . .
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” performs a random act of politeness.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
Republican Thought Police 0
Now they are coming after the Smithsonian.
A Divider, Not a Uniter, Reprise 0
Steve M. points out that both sides don’t. A snippet; follow the link for the rest.
And I think we can thank Newt Gingrich for embracing this strategy and making it the Republican modus operandi over three decades ago.
The Historical Scholar 0
PoliticalProf marvels at Donald Trump’s grasp of the past.
An Accidental Truth-Teller 0
See mouth. Insert foot.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
The Dot-Com Bubble v 2.0? El Reg reports that
“These actions do not signal reduced confidence in AI. Rather, they suggest a growing willingness to evaluate where AI creates meaningful value and where it does not. Organizations appear increasingly focused on concentrating investment where expected returns are strongest,” the report said.
Much more at the link.
The Me Veneration 0
The Rude One looks at Donald Trump’s conduct and concludes
Follow the link for his reasoning.
This New Gilded Age 0
Are we possibly seeing the return of the sweatshop?