Lunatech @Lunatech@qoto.org

#OpenAI presents its principles, the logic behind #ChatGPT launch, and what's ahead:
"Society will face major questions about what AI systems are allowed to do, how to combat bias, how to deal with job displacement, and more. The optimal decisions will depend on the path the technology takes, and like any new field, most expert predictions have been wrong so far. This makes planning in a vacuum very difficult."

https://openai.com/blog/planning-for-agi-and-beyond/

Boston-based Electra Vehicles, which provides AI-based cloud and onboard software for EV battery systems optimization, raised $21M led by United Ventures (Silicon Canals)

https://siliconcanals.com/news/startups/united-ventures-backs-electra-vehicles-19-7m-round/
http://www.techmeme.com/230225/p17#a230225p17

Ms. Gebru notes that in the rush to rival #OpenAI’s #ChatGPT tech companies aren’t heeding calls to slow down.
“Our recommendations basically say that before you put anything out, you have to understand what’s in your data set and document it thoroughly.
But at the end of the day this means taking more time, spending more resources and making less money. Who’s going to do that without legislation?”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/timnit-gebru-is-calling-attention-to-the-pitfalls-of-ai-8e658a58

As AI tools and CGI creations get better at pretending to be human, some creators say they are often being asked to prove that they're human (Kate Lindsay/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/24/23608961/tiktok-creator-bot-accusation-prove-theyre-human
http://www.techmeme.com/230225/p16#a230225p16

The "Beers family of Canton, Ohio" is beyond contemptible. Read this detailed and infuriating ProPublica piece, on a sordid scheme that law enforcement refuses to care about, to see why. https://www.propublica.org/article/liberty-healthshare-healthcare-sharing-ministries-obamacare

6 year-old: Have you ever played Minecraft before?

Me: I have! I played it a long time ago.

6 year-old: Was it in black-and-white?

#cults #CultHopping #ReligiousTrauma #coercivecontrol #BITEModel #CriticalThinking #therapist If you grew up in a fundy family, you were primed to feel comfortable in high-demand, coercive groups/religions/cults/relationships. Before joining yet another group with the same dynamics, measure it against the BITE Model: https://freedomofmind.com/cult-mind-control/bite-model/?fbclid=IwAR1hVf12wVANS8FBNpHyuzUMFoINrzyZP3SySZk5GQ3qqEbdMADh1mtvj1U

New by me: By coming up short in its cyber attacks on Ukraine, Russia has shown the rest of the world how to defend against it. Non paywalled version: https://archive.ph/tlUaf

However long Jimmy Carter has left now that he has entered hospice, it has been such a gift that the best person to hold the office, certainly in the 20th century and possibly ever, is also the longest lived. What a life. What a better country and world we would be if we had more like him.

Gotta say — I miss nothing from #Birdsite. On the contrary, my timeline is an absolutely fantastic mixture of #Apple / #iOS / #macOS and #Linux / #UNIX / #OpenSource with a little sprinkle of #Python. Tags are such an amazing feature, I discovered tons of amazing content and people 🙌🏻

Professional liar and fraud Tucker Carlson elevated Trump's false claims of a "rigged election" to his easily conned #FoxNews audience while privately acknowledging that they were bullshit. #GOP https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/25/business/media/fox-news-dominion-tucker-carlson.html

Experts caution the proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles is driving militaries in Ukraine and beyond toward automation, creating a dangerous slippery slope (Morgan Meaker/Wired)

https://www.wired.com/story/ukraine-war-autonomous-weapons-frontlines/
http://www.techmeme.com/230225/p12#a230225p12

#caturday Tip

The skirmishes over generative AI show how tech companies have become political lightning rods, as even efforts to steer AI away from politics can appear biased (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/24/woke-ai-chatgpt-culture-war/
http://www.techmeme.com/230225/p11#a230225p11

None dare call it a regression, but I was once able to use /me in iMessage on MacOS and it would handle that as IRC servers do, turning it into a reference to myself in the third person.

/me misses that feature

would become, in italics, centered:

pwinn misses that feature

I’m not afraid of MacOS becoming “too iOS-like,” because I think Apple correctly recognizes the differences between them. But I am sad that when they standardized the code base between the two platforms, MacOS lost /me handling, rather than iOS gaining it.

#blog #nerdery #MacOS #irc

Just gonna leave this here.