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This Reg story about #ChatGPT telling Alexander Hanff that he had died in 2019, and then creating false links to the Guardian news site as “proof,” is deeply disturbing. https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/02/chatgpt_considered_harmful/

For #FossilFriday check out this cutie pie - this is a ~525 million year old #fossil, that may be an early relative of today's #tardigrades (scale bars 1/10 mm). If you've not heard of them, tardigrades - or water bears - are beautiful, minute #animals. They are closely related to #arthropods (arachnids, insects, millipedes, crustaceans and kin). This cool little fossil has three leg pairs, with tiny claws.

#Fossils #Science #Palaeontology #Paleontology #tardigrade

These machines can do neither. They produce strings of tokens that statistically appear like they were produced by a human.

To an LLM the statements “Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon” and “Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on Mars” are differentiated only in that more people have written the former than the latter.

That’s it.

AI doesn’t exist and companies letting what we DO have make decisions is just a way to avoid culpability for the results.

3/3

Via @/DefendATLForest:

"The crowd has safely arrived at Intrechment Creek Trailhead. Weelaunee People's Park has been successfully reclaimed!"

#StopCopCity

https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/11i87uq/deep_fake_coping/

#AiArtCommunity

Congratulations to all those who entered the ACES National Grammar Day Poetry Contest. Check out more on our winners, as well as a bunch of honorable mentions, on the ACES website.

https://aceseditors.org/news/2023/winning-poem-reflects-our-shyness-about-grammar

#GrammarDay

That awkward moment when you leave a store without buying anything and all you can think is "act natural, you're innocent".

This copy of the Webster’s Pocket Computer Dictionary defines hacker as “One who has acquired skill in the use of computers, generally for personal pleasure.”

BBC Breaking News alerts now being written by ChatGPT I think

How?
1.Write out just the proposition from a proof we've done in class or on a test on a blank sheet of paper and put all your notes away. It's important that your practice proof only gives you as much information as you might get on a test.
2. . Do this for 25-35min a day.
3. Each time you try this write *something* --even if you are drawing a blank. Don't be too quick to look at the answers or hints, you've got to get the mind straining and probing at the question. 5/

For as long as there have been people, for however many hundreds of thousands of years (or so they would say) all wealth has come from labour, from child raising, hunting, fishing, grubbing, tool & weapon making & creating whatever was useful & valued by the community.
No wealth was ever added to the world beyond the labour of those in it, be they slave or free person.
Nothing has changed over the unknown number of hundreds of thousands or millions of years, all wealth has only ever been created by labour.
Anyone who has acquired more wealth than that created by their own labour, or their share of the composite wealth of the community has stolen it from those who created it.

Arguing with Bing about NFTs. Check out this conversational pivot!!! I’ll be using this myself to change the subject with coworkers

You know those public showers where the button acts as a timer for the water? And you have to keep pressing it every 30 seconds or whatever?

As a kid, I thought one push was the time a grown up took to shower. I used to race to get clean with one push but I never got all the suds off me in time.

I marvelled at how grown-ups could do it. I imagined rugby men walking around with mud under their clothes.

I really had no idea what the fuck was going on generally.

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Met up with a guy in the park to get sum switches

@Taweret the detective is Denny, who ran the transporters in that Lower Decks episode in San Francisco