Joe @twitskeptic@qoto.org
Unprofessional data wrangler and Mastodon’s official fact checker. Older and crankier than you are.
Joined Nov 2022
Here's another query : ""Akira came directly, breaking all tradition. Was that it? Had he followed form-had he asked his mother"
There's a github link at https://github.com/microsoft/AGIEval/blob/main/data/v1/sat-en.jsonl that has the questions. I tried one and got a search hit.
Microsoft just published a paper - modestly titled "AGIEval: A Human-Centric Benchmark for Evaluating Foundation Models" - that, no joke, uses readily available *online* sample SAT questions to evaluate the GPT class LLMs. The problem, of course, is that same data was likely used to train the same models. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.06364.pdf
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So for over a week now Elon Musk's circle of friends have been going on and on insisting that Bob Lee's killer was obviously an unhoused individual and blaming the city for not jailing more people.
Now, it turns out that the guy who killed him was another tech exec who knew him, and they were originally in a car together.
https://missionlocal.org/2023/04/bob-lee-killing-arrest-made-san-francisco/
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Excellent timing that a 21 year-old cis, straight white guy Air National Guardsman who makes videos of himself shooting guns while shouting racist and antisemitic epithets is behind the massive intel documents leak on Discord while Republicans claim, without evidence, that trans folks are bad for military readiness.
The Taliban appellate court rules on mifepristone. https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/4/13/23681630/supreme-court-abortion-mifepristone-fifth-circuit-alliance-hippocratic-medicine-fda
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Here is a must-read post from children's author Maggie Tokuda-Hall on how Scholastic offered to publish her book — all she had to do was remove all mention of racism.
Sure, they're banning books in Tennessee and Texas. But it's not just the books that get published and then banned from the library. It's all the books that don't get published in the first place.
Those banning books know publishers like Scholastic pull this cowardly bullshit. It's their game plan.
https://www.prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2023/4/11/scholastic-and-a-faustian-bargain
Even more troubling is the fact that Eric Topol, one of the corresponding authors on the paper, didn't declare any competing interests for the paper when he's a scientific advisor for a AI based precision medicine company.
This speculative review of potential medical applications of LLMs completely ignores two of the largest risks - model hallucinations and premature clinical deployment by credulous hospital administrators of unverified and unverifiable systems trained on proprietary datasets by unscrupulous vendors. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05881-4
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One chatgpt hobby I've been playing with fellow writers is asking it to name some articles we've written. It's wrong in such entertaining ways...Here's one of mine, apparently: "The Mystery of the Male Body: A Missing Prostate." This article explores the fascinating story of a woman who lived to be 101 years old and was found to have a prostate gland.
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Unlike the extension "I don't care about cookies" which just accepts all cookies, Consent-O-Matic clicks the prompts on your behalf to reject most of the cookies. You can also choose what to accept/reject in the preferences.
Available for Firefox, Chrome and others.
I've been using this on Firefox 
for quite sometime now and it works great!
Their Github page has links to official extension stores: https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic#introduction
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Al Jaffee, originator of the Mad magazine "fold-in" dies at 102. One of the best satirical cartoonists ever.
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Federal judge suspends FDA approval of abortion pill https://www.statnews.com/2023/04/07/abortion-pill-texas-lawsuit-ban-fda
If you're into astronomy, this is just so wild - a black hole ejected from a galaxy created a 200,000 light-year long trail (larger than our own galaxy) of new stars. https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-010
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Idaho becomes the first state to officially endorse the Taliban. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/idaho-becomes-first-state-to-restrict-interstate-travel-for-abortions/
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The fact that ChatGPT is still just straight up making up information about *people* and even including fake citations just blows my mind. The defamation suits are already starting (https://www.reuters.com/technology/australian-mayor-readies-worlds-first-defamation-lawsuit-over-chatgpt-content-2023-04-05/) and it's not like there's a Section 230 for LLMs. I guess this was optimistic of me but I totally expected a "band-aid" fix by now, like "I'm sorry, but as a large language model I am incapable of providing references." Two more recent examples I saw in thread:
Unprofessional data wrangler and Mastodon’s official fact checker. Older and crankier than you are.
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