Stanford has released their annual AI Index Report. Interesting that they say that models are hallucinating more. π€¨ The U.S. still leads the world in AI authors and inventions, but China leads the world in patents granted. In many of the graphs, it's clear that the AI world changed after AlexNet (2012) and again after All you need is Attention (2017).Β Interesting that when I search for "Molt" or "Clawd" I get nothing.
Stanford also released a report that found that a growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone else. The AI Overlords live in a different world.Β
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A primer on datacenters. Maybe this will guide investments, if you think they're going to be big (which I do). But here's something interesting I didn't know β Google has three datacenters in The Dalles. I thought they just had one. And they're changing the local climate and disrupting aviation. And a woman in Wisconsin claims that a Meta datacenter is turning the water milk-white with strontium. Well that's not good.Β
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The 5 Places in America You DONβT Want to Be When Society Collapses. NYC, SF, LA, New Orleans and Detroit. What do these cities have in common? Β π€
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Amazon to acquire Globalstar and expand Amazon Leo satellite network. Amazon is competing with Starlink. And will partner with Apple, since Apple has been using the Globalstar network.
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You Can Soon Buy a $4,370 Humanoid Robot on AliExpress. But will it send telemetry to China?
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The fertility crisis isnβt an economic problem. Itβs a cultural one. It can't be just economic. Poor people have children, too, and sometimes that have many. Could it be this: Very conservative Millennial men have "almost 4x as many children" as very liberal men (the smartest conservatives also have the most kids). Maybe it has to do with this: Effects of physical attractiveness on political beliefs.
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CRISPR technology might be used to treat Downs Syndrome. This will be tricky, and one will have to start really early. But it would be amazing if successful.
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Long-term HIV-1 remission achieved through allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplant from a CCR5Ξ32/Ξ32 sibling donor. This patient was lucky to have a sibling donor with the homozygous CCR5Ξ32 (CCR5Ξ32/Ξ32) mutation.
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1Password has been down for some people. This is why I would never use a password manager like this. Imagine being unable to access important documents or a website because you couldn't access your passwords. Unacceptable!
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A new toothpaste stops gum disease without killing good bacteria. It contains guanidinoethylbenzylamino imidazopyridine acetate to kill off Porphyromonas gingivalis. What about Eikenella corrodens, the bacteria that causes periodontitis?
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Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit. Is anybody still surfing the web without an automatic cookie delete add-on?
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Anthropic has come out against a proposed Illinois law backed by OpenAI that would shield AI labs from liability if their systems are used to cause large-scale harm, like mass casualties or more than $1 billion in property damage.
At least Anthropic has a conscience and a sense of ethics.
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As if you didn't have enough time to waste. Surf.social will allow you to combine all your social media conversations all on one app. Mingle conversations. Mix things up. Confuse people. If this is possible, I'm surprised this hasn't been tried before.
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One-fifth of people who get exposed to the influenza virus don't get sick. This seems to be why. Their sweat has dermicidin. It binds toΒ hemagglutinin and "extends its effect to taxonomically unrelated respiratory viruses such as measles virus and human coronavirus OC43". What a deal!
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I can't believe I am finding myself in agreement with Sen. Lisa Reynolds, who is a proponent of "harm reduction".Β Now, she wants to strengthen House Bill 2005 and is in favor of taking drug addicts involuntarily off the streets. This is great! We are not doing them a favor letting them fend for themselves on the streets, and assuming they can make rational decisions for their well-being. It's harmed the city, too. Way long past time to take action.
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