hkl @hkl@qoto.org

‘Google’s riposte to ChatGPT has got off to an embarrassing start after its new artificial intelligence-powered chatbot gave a wrong answer in a promotional video, as investors wiped more than $100bn (£82bn) off the value of the search engine’s parent company, Alphabet.’ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/09/google-ai-chatbot-bard-error-sends-shares-plummeting-in-battle-with-microsoft #google #alphabet #ai #chatgpt #bard #AnExpensiveVideo

ChatGPT is a data privacy nightmare.
If you’ve ever posted online, you ought to be concerned.

The privacy risks that come attached to ChatGPT should sound a warning. And as consumers of a growing number of AI technologies, we should be extremely careful about what information we share with such tools.

🔗 https://theconversation.com/chatgpt-is-a-data-privacy-nightmare-if-youve-ever-posted-online-you-ought-to-be-concerned-199283

#chatGPT #ai #artificialintelligence #privacy #privacyalways #social #SocialMedia #sociology #socialimpact #sociologist @sociology #SocialsScience #technology

‘Friend or foe’ bacteria kill their algal hosts when coexisting is no longer beneficial. https://elifesciences.org/articles/84400?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_pr

Good morning, the empty bookshelves in Florida schools keep my head busy, since I'm a teacher with a library in my classroom in Berlin myself. That's a history lesson in front of our very eyes and exactly how fascism started in Germany. Books were banned and then burnt and everyone said, well, I can't do anything, I don't want to loose my job, I don't like it, but... Many little steps were made by many little people who didn't stand up against a new little rule. You know how this ends.

"Three years into the pandemic, the immune systems of the vast majority of humans have learnt to recognize SARS-CoV-2 through vaccination, infection or, in many cases, both. But just how quickly do these types of immunity fade?"

#Immunology #ImmunologicalMemory #COVID19 #COVID #vaccine

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00124-y

Structural and functional integration of human forebrain organoids with the injured adult rat visual system https://www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/fulltext/S1934-5909(23)00004-8 "Human brain organoids integrate with the injured visual cortex of adult rats", "Organoid neurons respond to host visual stimulation and adopt feature selectivity"; #neuroscience

Sparse, small, but diverse neural connections help make perception reliable, efficient https://news.mit.edu/2023/sparse-small-diverse-neural-connections-help-make-perception-reliable-efficient-0202 Distributed representation of visual information in thalamic inputs to visual cortex; #neuroscience

Wonderful, potentially very helpful #neuroscience discovery about #pain and #painReceptors involving #capsaicin

#medicine #research #medicalResearch

https://neurosciencenews.com/chicken-pain-22430/

The theory of stupidity

We have far more to fear from stupidity than evil.
Evil is easy to identify and fight against; not so with stupidity.

When we know something or someone is evil, we can take steps to fight it. With stupidity, it's much more difficult. 

Dietrich Bonhoeffer argues that stupidity is worse than evil because stupidity can be manipulated and used by evil

🔗 https://bigthink.com/thinking/bonhoeffers-theory-stupidity-evil/

#psychology #Philosophy #stupidity #evil @philosophy #DietrichBonhoeffer #philosopher

OpenAI released a tool which purports to detect AI-generated text. At the highest end of detection, it labels text "possibly" or "likely" AI-generated. 21% of human-written text falls under "possibly" and 9% of "likely" does. That's 3 in 10 students being defamed and/or harmed.

Just like other providers of academic surveillance software, OpenAI states that their detector "should not be used as a primary decision-making tool".

It will be, though. And harm will follow.

https://openai.com/blog/new-ai-classifier-for-indicating-ai-written-text/

anyone else find that the standard ‘plot’ for scientific paper abstracts is a lot like standard movie plots:

- set the scene, everything’s fine
- OH SHIT, that was an unexpected thing
- characters realise they are going to have to get off their asses and DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS
- bunch of significant things happen
- sunny outlook… until next time

Children killed annually by mass education of Black history: 0

Children killed annually by mass book reading: 0

Children killed annually by drag shows: 0

Children killed annually by mass shootings & firearms: 4400

GOP: The only way to protect our kids is ban history, ban books, ban drag, and arm more kids with guns.

@Andrew_Hardaway doesn’t that just end up causing an endless bureaucracy feedback loop that is guaranteed to bring on the apocalypse?

Blocking the activity of neurons in a region of the brain involved in memory leads to cell death, which could help explain the spatiotemporal disorientation observed in Alzheimer’s disease. https://elifesciences.org/articles/85437?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_insights

Distinct early and late neural mechanisms regulate feature-specific sensory adaptation in the human visual system https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2216192120 fatigue and sharpening "at different points in the sensory processing cascade, likely reflecting distinct #feedforward and #feedback interactions"; #neuroscience

Learning with all our senses and movement – behaviour, brain, and computation. Pressrelease on our review paper in TicS is now available.

https://tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/newsportal/news/mit-allen-sinnen-lernen-multimodales-enrichment-als-optimale-lernstrategie-der-zukunft?set_language=en

#neuroscience #learning #multisensory

Journal Club: The peacock’s tail and other flashy animal ornamentation doesn’t have to come at a cost. http://ow.ly/rZ6A50MFtF3

How Expectations and Conditioning Shape Our Response to Placebos.

There is considerable experimental evidence that expectations drive our experience of treatment regardless of whether the treatment is a drug or placebo.

🔗 https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-expectations-and-conditioning-shape-our-response-to-placebos/

#drug #placebo #treatment #treatments #psychology #psycologists #trials #sociology @sociology #experience #expectations #conditioning #Pavlov #neuroscientis #neuroscience @neuro

By now you know that #ChatGPT will make up nonsense, presented with confidence.

Useful framework by AI and Data Policy lawyer:

Florida wants to restrict Black history to an approved list of facts and dates with no analysis or critical thought involved.

History without context isn’t actually history. It’s trivia.