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JB611 , 2 months ago to random

New right-to-repair rules in the EU 'that will force manufacturers to make it easier for consumers to repair their products' will 'save customers [an estimated] €176.5bn over 15 years and prevent the emission of 18.4m tonnes of CO2' says this @guardian article https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/29/eu-right-to-repair-rule-british-builders-should-copy #RightToRepair #EU #Tech

JB611 , 2 months ago to random

Going back to the original test with all its participants, including reflections on the test's (odd) focus on gender - @ouropinions talk to @alex and @emilymbender about why & how & just how much 'The Turing Test is Bullshit' https://www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com/shownotes/2024/4/4/the-turing-test-is-bullshit-walex-hanna-and-emily-m-bender

JB611 , 2 months ago to random

'Google Books is indexing low quality, AI-generated books that will turn up in search results ... “This seems like there will be a type of runaway feedback loop, right?” Alex Hanna @alex ], director of research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR), told me in an email. “Ngram viewer is already a pretty noisy signal for things which computational social scientists and linguists may care about, but it'll probably be completely unusable in a few years.”' https://www.404media.co/google-books-is-indexing-ai-generated-garbage/