Prime Day deals include the Ninja Creami ice cream maker for $150
14 Jul

Prime Day deals include the Ninja Creami ice cream maker for $150

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It’s not quite Amazon Prime Day yet, but the early deals continue to show up. For example, the Ninja Creami ice cream maker is down to $150. This is a discount of $50 and close to the record-low price of $130. It’s the perfect gadget for those who scream for ice cream, but also scream about paying over $6 per pint.We absolutely loved the Ninja Creami in our official review, calling it a “fast and easy” way to make “surprisingly tasty” ice cream and other frozen desserts. This is actually a consumer-friendly design of a mainstay appliance at restaurants, so…
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14 Jul

Online manipulation expert Renée DiResta: ‘Conspiracy theories shape our politics in extremely mainstream ways’

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Renée DiResta is a writer and researcher into online manipulation. In 2018, she led a US Senate investigation into the activities of the Russian Internet Research Agency and in 2019 she joined the Stanford Internet Observatory – a non-partisan project to analyse online disinformation. In June this year, after a Republican-led investigation, her contract, along with those of many other staffers, was not renewed, prompting some observers to claim the group was being dismantled due to political pressure.What inspired you to write about what you call the “propaganda machine”? I started to feel that propaganda had fundamentally changed. The types…
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I helped my aging dad get a job at the hospital I work at. I’m so proud and love being his coworker.
14 Jul

I helped my aging dad get a job at the hospital I work at. I’m so proud and love being his coworker.

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My dad owned a wide variety of businesses. We grew up in Maryland, where he ran a mini-mart in downtown Baltimore. Many Koreans owned liquor stores and mini-marts back in the 1990s, and when my dad talks about that business, he says those were the good days when he made a lot of money.He worked every day from Sunday through Saturday and only took time off for one weekend in the summer when we went on a family trip to Ocean City. He even worked every holiday.Because he worked a lot, I don't have too many childhood memories with him.…
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Researchers Call for “Child-Safe AI” After Alexa Tells Little Girl to Stick Penny in Wall Socket
14 Jul

Researchers Call for “Child-Safe AI” After Alexa Tells Little Girl to Stick Penny in Wall Socket

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"No, Alexa, no!"Chatbot ShockerResearchers are urging tech companies and regulators to come up with new rules to protect children from AI chatbots that lack any kind of emotional intelligence.This "empathy gap," as detailed in a new paper authored by University of Cambridge sociology PhD Nomisha Kurian, could put young users at risk, prompting the need for "child-safe AI."In her paper, Kurian detailed a number of interactions between children and AI chatbots that led to potentially dangerous situations.In one incident cited by Kurian, a ten-year-old girl in the US was told by Amazon's Alexa assistant to touch a live electrical plug…
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US financial watchdog urged to investigate NDAs at OpenAI
14 Jul

US financial watchdog urged to investigate NDAs at OpenAI

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OpenAI whistleblowers have urged the US financial watchdog to investigate non-disclosure agreements at the startup after claiming the contracts included restrictions such as requiring employees to seek permission before contacting regulators.Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) typically bar an employee from sharing company information with outside parties but a group of whistleblowers are arguing that OpenAI’s agreements could have led to workers being punished for raising concerns about the company to federal authorities.San Francisco-based OpenAI is the developer of the ChatGPT chatbot and a key player in the artificial intelligence boom, which has been accompanied by expressions of concern from experts about the…
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Training AI requires more data than we have — generating synthetic data could help solve this challenge
14 Jul

Training AI requires more data than we have — generating synthetic data could help solve this challenge

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The rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence like OpenAI’s GPT-4 has brought remarkable advancements, but it also presents significant risks. One of the most pressing issues is model collapse, a phenomenon where AI models trained on largely AI-generated content tend to degrade over time. This degradation occurs as AI models lose information about their true underlying data distribution, resulting in increasingly similar and less diverse outputs full of biases and errors. As the internet becomes flooded with real-time AI-generated content, the scarcity of new, human-generated or natural data further exacerbates this problem. Without a steady influx of diverse, high-quality data,…
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Everything You See Is a Computational Process, If You Know How to Look
14 Jul

Everything You See Is a Computational Process, If You Know How to Look

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In the movie Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr challenges the physicist early in his career:Bohr: Algebra is like sheet music. The important thing isn’t “can you read music?” It’s “can you hear it?” Can you hear the music, Robert?Oppenheimer: Yes, I can.I can’t hear the algebra, but I feel the machine.I felt the machine even before I touched a computer. In the 1970s I awaited the arrival of my first one, a Radio Shack TRS-80, imagining how it would function. I wrote some simple programs on paper and could feel the machine I didn’t yet…
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The Metaverse Was Supposed to Be Your New Office. You’re Still on Zoom
14 Jul

The Metaverse Was Supposed to Be Your New Office. You’re Still on Zoom

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When Mark Zuckerberg rebranded Facebook as Meta in 2021, he estimated the metaverse could reach a billion people over a decade. Not long after, Bill Gates predicted that within two or three years “most virtual meetings will move from 2D camera image grids—which I call the Hollywood Squares model, although I know that probably dates me—to the metaverse, a 3D space with digital avatars.”In fall 2022, Microsoft announced a partnership with Meta that would bring Mesh, a platform for collaboration in mixed reality, and its set of Microsoft 365 applications to Meta’s Quest products. Meta has launched Horizon Workrooms for…
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