Just Plain WEIRD #2
Jimmy Wales is weighing up whether to begin having Large LAnguage Model AIs like GPT write Wikipedia. Wikipedia – By Loz Blain 2023 Apr 03 – Despite its frequent and serious inaccuracies, GPT has got Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales thinking seriously about how AI …
The Koala Boards skateboard and its backpack are presently on Kickstarter. Koala Boards – By Ben Coxworth 2023 Mar 31 – Skateboarding can be a fun way of getting around town, but most boards have to be either carried by hand or strapped onto …
Special mics were used to pick up the ultrasonic sounds various plants make when stressed. Tel Aviv University – By Michael Franco 2023 Mar 31 – If a plant is stressed but no one hears it, does it still make a sound? While …
Horses are an active part of life for the Lakota and many other Plains nations today. Jacquelyn Córdova/Northern Vision Productions – By William Taylor, Assistant Professor and Curator of Archaeology, University of Colorado Boulder and by Yvette Running Horse Collin, Postdoctoral Researcher …
Our current methods of training and aligning intelligent AIs do not scale well into the future. Generated by Midjourney View gallery – 5 images – By Loz Blain 2023 Mar 31 – Forget the collapse of employment, forget the spam and misinformation, forget human …
Two-thirds of Euro/American jobs are set to change due to AI automation, and up to a quarter of all current work will be taken over by AIs, according to a bombshell report from analysts at Goldman Sachs. Here are the jobs that’ll be …
Unconfirmed reports say dogs in a new study woofed down their plant-based dinners. Depositphotos – By Bronwyn Thompson 2023 Mar 27 – As the perception of plant-based diets slowly shifts away from the image of a lettuce leaf on a plate, it’s no surprise …
A robotic hive was able to help honeybee colonies endure through extreme winter weather. Depositphotos View gallery – 4 images – By Bronwyn Thompson 2023 Mar 23 – While honeybees are famously difficult to study, altering natural behaviors if any outside influences are sensed, …
Hyperreal is developing exquisitely detailed “digital identities” that can be used in a range of projects – up to and including fully conversational AIs. Hyperreal – View gallery – 6 images – By Loz Blain 2023 Mar 26 – Motion capture guru Remington Scott …
Militaries are racing to develop weapons that could one day directly assault or disable human minds. We ignore this broader context at our peril. ‘The fight for our minds demands a comprehensive, long-term strategy.’ Photograph: Olivier Douliery/AFP/Getty Images – Opinion – TikTok By …
