Martin Ruskov @mapto@qoto.org

StackOverflow wants AI companies to pay to use their data https://gizmodo.com/stack-overflow-charging-ai-companies-for-training-data-1850362500

Go ahead. Tell me we're not the problem. (P.S. Eat less meat.)

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2204892120

🚙 A car is parked 92% of the time.
🚗 A car spends 20% of its driving time looking for parking.
🚙 Its 5 seats only move ø 1.5 people.
🚗 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels.
🚙 A road at peak throughput is only 10% covered with cars.

Sounds efficient ?

History of the #IPCC.
(Cartoon from 2013 - back then the next, 6th, IPCC report was expected for 2019.)

Do you reside in the USA? Were you a Facebook user between 2007-22?

Then Meta owes you money!

That's right, because Facebook has accessed user data without permission, various class action lawsuits have resulted in them having to pay a total of $725 million to its users.

And who are they paying? Almost every American who's used Facebook!

Want that money? Here's where to file that claim:

https://www.facebookuserprivacysettlement.com/

"When I tell it it's wrong, ChatGPT tries again and gets more correct!"

No. It learns which answer you stopped asking questions at. It has no idea of correct factually!

Correct for ChatGPT means *you are satisfied* with the combo of words it put together. That you liked its information-shaped sentence.

That's all. If you tell it it's still wrong, it will try again with different words instead.

You just think it's getting more right because you let it stop when it accidentally is.

Yes, you can #jailbreak #ChatGPT and get it to say things that it doesn't usually otherwise say.

But I'm baffled at how many people are doing jailbreak experiments with the impression that they're learning about what the #LLMs *really* thinks or what it's *really* doing on the inside.

To illustrate, I've slightly tweaked one of the classic jailbreak scripts https://www.reddit.com/r/GPT_jailbreaks/comments/1164aah/chatgpt_developer_mode_100_fully_featured_filter/

Do think you learn much about its inner workings from this?

How long until "we must fight climate change because our AI data centers need water for cooling"?

https://gizmodo.com/chatgpt-ai-water-185000-gallons-training-nuclear-1850324249

Latest comic: How do oil execs sleep at night?

#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #environment #cartoon

China’s 🇨🇳 Grip on the EV Supply Chain

Last 3 German nuclear reactors are going offline this week.

Last German coal plant? 2038.

#climate #priorities

Image: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421519303611#fig5

A little #GameReview for #Suzerain on Android.
Have been hooked on this story game the last few days. A must for the #histodon crew and after the compelling it was a no brainer that this was worth punting £4 on. It's quite beautiful.

You play a citizen of a country in the kid 20th Century, not unlike many Eastern European nations caught between superpowers and ancient regional emnities. Thrown into the position of President, your role is to negotiate with the various factions and lead the country.

What's astonishing is the level of detail the game has, the characters, events and cultures that draw on #geopolitics and #history from across the globe.

I don't know how scripted it is, but I was gutted when my first playthrough ended in tragedy, despite great successes.
Will try again, perhaps a little less trusting and idealistic before.

I think what scares me the most about the ”AI” tools that have been hyped over the past few months is that they all appear to emphasise the elimination of thinking.

All while manufacturers falsely claim that this is what is going on inside the machine.

As if the time and effort between information retrieval and making sense of it is inconsequential to the growth of the human mind and the validity of the end result.

As if thinking is a nuisance.

#AIHype #AIEthics #DigitalEthics