Jess Peck on the dangers of AI optimism
‘It’s not the atom bomb: it’s leaded fuel. It won’t end the world in a bang, or in a climactic fight of good humans and foul machines, but in a gasp.’
TextFX, Google’s latest AI project using PaLM 2, looks interesting on the surface but no rapper using this would ever be taken seriously (by serious people). I also don’t know (yet) whether any OpenAI models could offer something similar out of the box (conditions apply).
Joshua Stein got WiFi into his Macintosh Portable. A remarkable feat!
Knowable Magazine on Black American zoologist Charles Henry Turner
It bees like that sometimes.
Shout out to Samantha Mugeni Niyoyita
‘As an engineer, normally we tend to be very technical. Expressing ourselves and sharing our skills and expertise are the kinds of things you can only learn through a social science master’s degree.’
Valencia reaches 46°C, a record temperature for the Spanish city. This broke the previous record by 3.4°C. Yikes. (ᔥ Twitter)
The ever-disappearing Antarctic sea ice
Not quite polar opposites.
How to make peanut butter cookies with ChatGPT
Finally, an innocent use case for ChatGPT: recipes!
Zoom has updated its ToS to allow training AI on user content without the ability to opt-out. The line that pisses me off is that Zoom has a “perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license” to redistribute, publish, access, use, store, transmit, review, disclose, preserve, extract, modify, reproduce, share, use, display, copy, distribute, translate, transcribe, create derivative works, and process Customer Content.
(ᔥ Stackdiary; ↬ Abeba Birhane)
Researchers at NVidia are showing off Perfusion, a text-to-image model they say is 100KB in size and takes four minutes to train. What could possibly go wrong?
(ᔥ Hackaday)
Keidra Chaney on why nonprofits need a values-based social media strategy: If your organization’s internal social media content policies and procedures haven’t been documented, document them now.