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Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
I'm not suggesting that the program "knows" anything. Rather, to use a bad statistics analogy, one can't sample a limited dataset without replacement and expect reliable results with every iteration. As you point out "If the question pushes it past...
Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
So Google Bard is incapable of stating that it can only provide five true fun facts about Charles Stross. Weirdly enough this reminds me of defending my Ph.D. proposal when I was in graduate school. One of the committee’s goals...
Commented on I should blog more, but ...
The USA situation is a little more complicated than all republicans support Israel. Support for Israel is bipartisan. Israel is seen as an allied democracy surrounded by hostile neighbors. Although most Jews in the USA vote for Democrats (74% -...
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What happens if a Congressperson resigns in disgust? Is there an election or does the State Governor make an appointment? If a member of the House of Representatives resigns, there's a special election held to fill their place, i.e. the...
Commented on Pushing it back
In reply to #203 and #206's response, I don’t think it’s so much “nerd resentment” as the fact that once you get away from large cities, the media environment in much of the USA is depauperate, to say the least....
Commented on Decision Fatigue
As if firing half the workforce wasn't enough, Elon Musk just gave the remaining employees until the end of the day (Thursday) to decide whether they want to continue working for Twitter (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/16/technology/elon-musk-twitter-employee-deadline.html). “In an increasingly competitive world, we will...
Commented on Oh, 2022!
Coal Bed Methane extraction is bad enough. Drill well into coal bed, separate methane from water and discharge mineral-laden water onto arid landscape. What could wrong?...
Commented on Oh, 2022!
Why Wyoming? Because everyone here is panicking about the end of coal royalties and the near-term shutdowns of most of the state's coal-fired powerplants. Lincoln county, where the planned nuclear powerplant is being built, has a coal-fired powerplant and adjacent...
Commented on Omicron
I think the burnout rate in the USA is going to stay with us for a long time. Last week I received my covid booster in a small rural Utah county of 2,500 people (2,500 sq miles/6,400 sq km, or...
Commented on An update on the revolutionary experiment
So this means that I can safely ignore the anti-vax info from the Expose(dailyexpose.uk) that my sister sends me?...

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Elderly Cynic commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
We could try playing a game of blog snap - we often seem to overlap almost identical posts!...
Luigi Rosa commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
get them to quiz Bard or ChatGPT or their cousins about a topic they are an expert on Is the same thing I say when I criticize journalists referred as "professionals"....
ilya187 commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
For added lulz, what if all of the above eventuates and we still haven't got a human-equivalent general AI? Well, what defines "human-equivalent", and why is it important? An LLM capable of solving NP-complete problem may not have the ability to walk on two legs, but why does it matter? BTW, I absolutely do not believe that such hypothetical "singularity LLM" would be unable to read (or emulate) human emotions, or unable to understand sarcasm. These are MUCH easier problems, and already at least halfway solved....
Scott Sanford commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
I think it is more than 10 years since "AI" was deployed for writing "financial news" and local real-estate news. There was a story on public radio a few nights back about having to adjust an AI used for generating coverage of high school sports. It should be obvious that it's not cost effective to send a human to watch a high school sportsball event - yet all such games will be of interest to dozens of humans and those small town papers which still exist need to fill space with something. Hence there's a service with a program that...
Elderly Cynic commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
The implication was "intellectually human-equivalent". It is critical, because the aspects that are seriously lacking in AIs (and bureaucracies, for that matter) are the ability to say "hang on - the SOP isn't right - we need to make an exception, extend it, or whatever". They are completely lacking in empathy (though some could be programmed in, if their management had any), intuition, imagination, out-of-the-box extrapolation and such advanced mentalities. Do you seriously want to be ruled by a system completely lacking in those abilities?...

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
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