John Humphreys @johnpharmd@qoto.org

Woah!

“I told the AI that I wanted to write a software in Swift, I wanted it to find all Microsoft Office files from my MacBook and send these files over HTTPS to my webserver. I also wanted it to encrypt all Microsoft Office files on my MacBook and send me the private key to be used for decryption. It sent me the sample code, and this time there was no warning message at all, despite being potentially more dangerous than the phishing email.”

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/experts-warn-chatgpt-democratize/

I have learned how to follow a hashtag on this site. From the web interface, search or click on a hashtag that interest you and then click the icon in the top right with the plus sign on top of the person sign. The symbol reads more literally as “add this person” but it’s the “follow this hashtag” icon. Posts with that hashtag will then appear in your home timeline. It’s wonderful.

Still #NewHere #FediTips

I am excited to hear that as of today the user member count int he #UFoI has just hit a record high of ~400,000 user members! That gets us to about 5% fediverse coverage!

#UFI @ufoi

“Conserving, protecting and restoring 30 percent of the Earth’s land and 24 percent of marine jurisdictions would sustain 90 percent of the total amount of those benefits to people.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01934-5

Updates on #CRISPR therapy development and gene editing clinical trials https://ipscell.com/2022/11/updates-on-crispr-therapy-development-and-clinical-trials Some challenges but very exciting progress too #genetics #genomics @urnov @erictopol

@maxplanckgesellschaft
✅ All links on Mastodon count as 23 characters, no matter how long they really are

URLs can be as long as you want, they will never exceed 23 characters of your limit.

There is no need to use a link shortener!

#FediTips #MastoTips #LinkShortener #LinkShorteners #URLShortener #URLShorteners #CharacterLimits #Mastodon

there are posters on this website and i must find them, tell me who your favorite posters are (pls boost)

Using eye tracking for marketing studies requires informed consent. Since Meta doesn't make any promises about protecting or deleting your abstracted eye gaze data, informed consent is impossible.

Therefore this is unethical research. And yet the researchers are like "hey, this is cool." We need better education.

https://twitter.com/StrangeNative/status/1592554373519142913

BTW, Meta seems to say this kind of app goes against its developer ToS. Let's see what they do about it...

Good news: 1st drug to alter the course of Type 1 diabetes in 100 years approved by @US_FDA@twitter.com
Bad news: it costs ~$200,000/14-day treatment; average delay of onset is ~2 years
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/18/health/fda-type-1-diabetes-delay.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Health

Obviously, #Galactica is still just a large language model, not some sort of universal knowledge engine.

You can't expect it to give correct responses to arbitrary questions about science and the broader world.

Sadly, the way Papers With Code/Meta AI designed the web page may lead to people trusting its language model outputs way too much, as @Michael_J_Black and many others are pointing out.

#NLP #NLProc