certainlytwice @certainlytwice@qoto.org

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Thousands of cats have died in Cyprus, according to experts who are warning that a more virulent strain of a feline coronavirus is causing severe illness.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/18/experts-warn-about-feline-coronavirus-after-thousands-of-cat-deaths-in-cyprus

Parents be like...

#cannabis #weed #marijuana

This is a credible proposal for DRM for websites in general. It would enable unbeatable adblock-blocking. It would prevent user customization for not just convenience but also accessibility.

I do not say this lightly: Enabling the forfeiture of control over the browsing experience is a fundamentally evil idea that must be rejected now, as it has been in the past, and we must remain vigilant against its reemergence in the future.

https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md

This is the real, human cost of mass surveillance of everyone's private digital communications.

If we actually care about keeping people safe, we need more end-to-end encryption not less.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has made $1 billion from the company. Earlier this year he laid off more than 10,000 workers.

Hard to think of a better example of inequality in tech and the wider economy.

#AI #GenerativeAI #Google #News #Journalism #Media: "Google is testing a product that uses artificial intelligence technology to produce news stories, pitching it to news organizations including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal’s owner, News Corp, according to three people familiar with the matter.

The tool, known internally by the working title Genesis, can take in information — details of current events, for example — and generate news content, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the product.

One of the three people familiar with the product said that Google believed it could serve as a kind of personal assistant for journalists, automating some tasks to free up time for others, and that the company saw it as responsible technology that could help steer the publishing industry away from the pitfalls of generative A.I."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/19/business/google-artificial-intelligence-news-articles.html

If anyone is wondering how google is doing, it is giving incorrect answers to the query “How old is the Universe?”

Instead of serving up scientific consensus (just shy of 14 billion years) it is latching onto recent media coverage of a questionable study (tired light, time-dependent coupling constants) claiming a much larger figure.

Notably, it gives me the right answer from an incognito window. But elevating popularity metrics over scientific consensus is a real problem!

Hold on, shoppers! Sales are here (or coming soon) in the EU.

It's time to rethink our fashion choices.

Before you buy, ask yourself: do I really need this?

Fast fashion is harmful. It is resource intensive, emits greenhouse gases and uses a lot of water.

By 2030, our goal is clear: all #EU textile products will be long-lived, recyclable and made as much as possible of recycled fibres, respecting social rights and the environment.

Let's redefine fast fashion and create a sustainable future.

@ylecun
This is huge: Llama-v2 is open source, with a license that authorizes commercial use!

This is going to change the landscape of the LLM market.
Llama-v2 is available on Microsoft Azure and will be available on AWS, Hugging Face and other providers

Pretrained and fine-tuned models are available with 7B, 13B and 70B parameters.

Llama-2 website: https://ai.meta.com/llama/
Llama-2 paper: https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/llama-2-open-foundation-and-fine-tuned-chat-models/

A number of personalities from industry and academia have endorsed our open source approach: https://about.fb.com/news/2023/07/llama-2-statement-of-support/

n'oublie pas de boire une binouze apres ton petard si tu veux garder ton permis

Scrolling, scrolling scrolling….

Our new research finds passive social media use is associated with poorer mental health, especially among younger people. 🧪

Open access: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1181233

The @R4DSCommunity welcomes you to week 29 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring GPT detectors!

📂 https://tidytues.day/2023/2023-07-18
📰 https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.02819

#RStats #DataViz #PyData #tidyverse #r4ds

#AI #GenerativeAI #Misinformation #Disinformation #SocialPsychology: "The nascent stage of this technology offers a transient opportunity to conduct interdisciplinary studies that measure the impact of generative models on human beliefs and biases. This opportunity rapidly diminishes once these systems are more widely adopted and more deeply embedded into other everyday technologies. Research on how generative AI models affect children's beliefs is an especially high priority. Children are more vulnerable to belief distortion because of their increased tendencies to anthropomorphize technology and their more nascent, influenceable knowledge states.

Independent audits must include not only assessments of fabrication and bias but also measurements of how knowledgeable users rate systems to be and how much they trust the outputs. These data could be used to estimate both the rate of problematic model outputs to users and how severely these outputs influence human beliefs in advance of actual transmission. The fields of psychology and machine learning could unite to turn their attention, collaborative capacities, and resources to doing this work.

Studies and subsequent interventions would be most effectively focused on impacts on marginalized populations who are disproportionately affected by both fabrications and negative stereotypes in model outputs."

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi0248?utm_content=buffer851e0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Ingroup love and Outgroup Hate

New social psychology studies find people’s motive to conform to their group’s norms predicts both their ingroup love and, to a lesser extent, their outgroup hate.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2023.104514

#Science
#Psychology
@psychology
#SocialPsychology
#SocialScience
@socialpsych

OMG who did this? I am crying

Suite à une discussion de pause café (oui les chercheurs, ça bosse fort), hier soir je me suis attelé à regarder le premier épisode de la saison 6 de Black Mirror. M'a-t-on dit, celle-ci fait référence à un ordinateur quantique de manière, disons, assez libérale.

TL;DR ça marche pas comme ça, mais l'épisode est tout à fait divertissant.

1/7 (la suite avec des CW)

#Quantique #BlackMirror