Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A reliable police informant? Per WPVI Philadelphia, “(a)n Anthropic A.I. model submitted a false tip about an unsolved murder through a publicly accessible web form, Philadelphia police said Friday.”
Full story at the link.
The Rule of Lawless 0
Apparently, that a lawyer with a long record of fighting for human rights won the Nobel Peace Prize toasted Trump’s marshmallow.
American Stasi 0
Methinks a strong argument can be made that the Trump maladministration’s hiring practices for their in-house KKK ICE agents may be less than optimal.
Unprecedented 0
Mona Charen argues that Donald Trump has raised the bar to heights previously unknown. Here’s a tiny bit from her article (emphasis added):
Your Tax Dollars at Work 0
Farron comments on Donald Trump’s use of taxpayer funds to pay for partisan political ads and on the Trump maladministration’s double talk about his double-dealing.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A learning tool? At the Psychology Today website, Liz Nissim warns that using “AI can replace the thinking process.”
Follow the link for her reasoning.
Ups and Downs 0
The house bounced. So did the payment.
QOTD 0
J. Robert Oppenheimer:
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner.”
Another “unsecured” portable phallus.
Another child in another hospital.
Another day in NRA paradise.
Emoluments 0
Sharon Zhang follows the money.
The Rule of Lawless 0
Seth discusses how Republicans have worked to loosen constraints on presidential power enacted after Watergate and how Donald Trump is capitalizing on that.
What Were the Odds? 0
I wonder whether anyone bet on this in those “prediction markets,” because it was pretty much a given.
More at the link.