Am I the only one skeptical about modern developers focusing so much on making AI look and sound like humans? Is it god’s syndrome “create them to reflect their image” kind of thing? Because what I need from AI as an individual is do the mundane tasks and be recognizable. I don’t need it to be able to impersonate a virtual friend or anything.
On 7-8 May in #Washington DC, the city’s biggest convention hall welcomed #America’s #military industrial complex, its top #technology companies and its most outspoken justifiers of #warcrimes. Of course, that’s not how they would describe it
It was the inaugural “AI Expo for National Competitiveness”, whose lead sponsor was #Palantir, who are currently, supplying some of its #AI products to the #Israel#Defense Forces
Dear tech blogs. Please stop.
These are massive trillion+ dollar megacorporations.
There’s no “war”, no need to choose sides. No flame wars to be had to take more of our money.
These are appliances to get stuff done or enjoy for fun.
Period.
The pre-eminent philosopher (and recently deceased) Daniel Dennett stated recently that "Large Language Models #LLM are the most dangerous technology ever developed, capable of leading to the collapse of not just #democracy but of #civilization ... This technology can flood the world with manipulative fake people ... Who controls your attention, controls you. We are in danger of losing our free will and being turned into puppets."
If you design a system such that you cannot differentiate people from corporations and bots and that’s your defense for calling all of them “users”, you’ve designed a system that conflates people – who are mortal, have feelings, can feel pain and be hurt and who have human rights that must be protected – with the very entities that oftentimes exist to exploit them.
Design for people. Call them people. All else is secondary.
With more than 25,000 charging ports in the U.S. and over 50,000 worldwide, Tesla’s Supercharger network is the undisputed king of EV fast charging. But with the recent layoffs, CEO Elon Musk “cast a cloud over the private infrastructure project.” Read more from TechCrunch: https://flip.it/KJAelX #Tech#Technology#Tesla#ElonMusk
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In the recently resurfaced debate about #solarpunk (or lunarpunk) aspects of #web3 and #blockchain I'm intrigued by one aspect:
Why do we accept being given a solution without outlining the problem in the first place?
Why do we listen to #DAO pitches instead of asking ourselves how we want to run our communities, how do we want to make decisions, vote, discuss things?
Just stating the problem first would make it very clear that there are multiple technical solutions, not just the Web3.
In my definition of #technology in #solarpunk I do call it the "crystallized community", as a sum of all the decisions, tradition, culture, because the tools arise from the needs and the conscious choice, not the other way around.
Blockchain and DAOs are an anti-thesis of Solarpunk not just because of their carbon footprint, but because they bundle everything together and make choices for you, pretending there was never a choice in how your community could operate.
How much thought do you give to public drinking fountains? @sean_hollister has been pondering them more than most. For @verge's "Button of the Month" feature, he wrote about their history and future, construction, how a bubbler turns into a dribbler, and what the Americans With Disabilities Act says about them.
“…the hardest kinds of errors to spot. They couldn’t be harder for a human to detect if they were specifically designed to go undetected. The human in the loop isn’t just being asked to spot mistakes — they’re being actively deceived. The AI isn’t merely wrong, it’s constructing a subtle ‘what’s wrong with this picture’-style puzzle.”
Not exactly sure why isn't #peertube more integrated with rest of the #fediverse like #mastodon
I mean I can only like a peertube video or comment on it using the peertube instance, if I reply on it using mastodon, it stays on mastodon not visible in peertube as a comment. Likes are not the same as boosts, and if I want to post a video on a peertube instance I have to join that instance, I can't post using my mastodon account.
My point regarding having to create another account on the #Fediverse / #peertube or #funkwhale to post a video remains true. I shouldn't need to create multiple account. The vision of fediverse/#ActivityPub was if I create one account on any one instance of any software, that is enough. I can't post a peertube video on some instances since they want to moderate the content, but posting a video on #Mastodon isn't the same experience, it is a different #technology too not p2p or use #bittorrent.
Private mission to save the Hubble Space Telescope raises concerns, NASA emails show ( www.npr.org )
Gabe Newell, the Man Behind Steam, Is Working on a Brain-Computer Interface ( futurism.com )
Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip ( arstechnica.com )
Amazon illegally interferes with an historic UK warehouse election ( pluralistic.net )
Singleboard Alpha: ESP32 powered full featured computer with a capacitive touch keyboard all on one PCB ( a.singleboard.computer )
FireChat was a tool for revolution. Then it disappeared. ( www.fromjason.xyz )