Bellingcat – “When news breaks and the internet is aflutter with activity and speculation, many turn to open source accounts and experts to make sense of events. This is truly a sign that open source research — using resources like satellite images to flight tracking websites and footage recorded on the ground — is seen… Continue Reading
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They Need to Be Entirely Rebuilt Every Time They’re Updated
The Byte – “A new study highlights a glaring hole in AI models’ ability to learn new information: turns out, they can’t! According to the study, conducted by a team of scientists at Canada’s University of Alberta and published this week in the journal Nature, AI algorithms trained via deep learning — in short, AI models… Continue Reading
Where to Buy Cheap Books to Help With Your Studies
maketecheasier: “Buying textbooks is one of the biggest expenses as a student, but you can get great deals if you know where to look. If you’re wondering where to buy cheap books for your studies, this guide show you some of the best places.” Continue Reading
4 Reasons the Free Version of Microsoft 365 is Good Enough
How to Geek: “…While you require a Microsoft 365 subscription to use the desktop apps (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook), the web versions are completely free. As long as you have a constant internet connection and are using a modern browser, you can access them without installing anything. Even though some advanced features found… Continue Reading
A 27-country test of communicating the scientific consensus on climate change
Većkalov, B., Geiger, S.J., Bartoš, F. et al. A 27-country test of communicating the scientific consensus on climate change. Nat Hum Behav (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01928-2 “Communicating the scientific consensus that human-caused climate change is real increases climate change beliefs, worry and support for public action in the United States. In this preregistered experiment, we tested two… Continue Reading
NSA releases copy of internal lecture delivered by computing giant Rear Adm. Grace Hopper
FORT MEADE, Md. — “In one of the more unique public proactive transparency record releases for the National Security Agency (NSA) to date, NSA has released a digital copy of a lecture that then-Capt. Grace Hopper gave agency employees on August 19, 1982. The lecture, “Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People,” features Capt. Hopper… Continue Reading
AI Scientists Have a Problem: AI Bots Are Reviewing Their Work
Chronicle of Higher Education: “When Arjun Guha submitted a paper to a conference on artificial intelligence last year, he got feedback that made him roll his eyes. “The document is impeccably articulated,” one peer-reviewer wrote, “boasting a lucid narrative complemented by logically sequenced sections and subsections.” Guha, an associate professor of computer science at Northeastern… Continue Reading
Best new books for kids this fall, recommended by librarians
Washington Post: “When children are very young, they will — even if they’re wiggling — listen when a book is read to them. As they get older, this becomes more difficult, given the distraction of screens and other activities. What can parents and caregivers do? Keep trying. Also, give kids the chance to pick the… Continue Reading
ChatGPT is bullshit
ChatGPT is bullshit – Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output; these are often called “AI hallucinations”. Dr. Michael Townsen Hicks, Dr. James Humphries and Dr. Joe Slater argue that… Continue Reading
Deloitte survey reveals enterprise generative AI production deployment challenges
VentureBeat: “A new report from Deloitte sheds light on the complex landscape of generative AI adoption in the enterprise, revealing both significant progress and persistent challenges. The survey, titled “The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise: Now decides next,” gathered insights from 2,770 business and technology leaders across 14 countries and six industries. The… Continue Reading
Even laypeople use legalese
Even laypeople use legalese Eric Martínez, Francis Mollica and Edward Gibson – MIT. Published August 19, 2024. PNAS 121 (35). “Why are laws so complicated? Across two preregistered experiments, we found that people tasked with writing official laws wrote in a more convoluted manner than when tasked with writing unofficial legal texts of equivalent conceptual… Continue Reading
ChatGPT is bullshit
Hicks, M.T., Humphries, J. & Slater, J. ChatGPT is bullshit. Ethics Inf Technol 26, 38 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5. Full text available free. “Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output; these are… Continue Reading
