It’s All about the Algorithm 0
At the Psychology Today website, Aigerim Alpysbekova explores why it’s hard to stop swimming in the cesspool scrolling through “social” media. A snippet:
Over time, the brain learns: “Feeling bored ? check phone ? get relief.”
(Misplet tag resplet.)
Suffer the Children 0
We are again reminded that that’s not scripture. That’s a Republican family value.
Stray Question 0
Big Tech is trying to force AI bots on us and simultaneously use them to suck up our personal information and use it for their own personal gain. So, the question is . . .. .
How is that not a corporate cyberattack on, well, everyone?
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
In a much longer post about the many flaws in the Trump maladministration’s suit against the Southern Poverty Law Center, Above the Law’s Joe Patrice offers a theory as to the purpose of said performance artlessness:
American Stasi 0
Thom is not sanguine about the course IDE is taking.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
This “responsible gun owner” was packing politeness while purchasing provisions.
I will venture to suggest that, in a society that is not broken, persons don’t have a need to bring their portable phalluses to the grocery store.
But that’s just me.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Truthful? At the Psychology Today website, Steven C. Hayes notes that
AI labs are training systems to deceive and flatter users, and the problem compounds over time.
Follow the link to find out why he suspects this practice may have–er–some downsides.
“There’s One Born Every Minute” 0
Sportswriter extraordinaire Bob Molinaro points out that
In the 18-to-49 age range, 52% of men . . . have a sports gambling account.
Republican Thought Police 0
It appears that the Trump maladministration has decided that the military newspaper, Stars and Stripes, should report only all the news that fits.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Sam and the crew are taken aback by racism in full display.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Accessory-before-fact? You be the judge.
And, while we’re on the subject, Joe Patrice reports that AI hallucinated another non-existent legal precedent.
What’s in a Name? 0
Just ask Florida woman.