Is privacy worth it? I know how this guy feels. It's an arms race to keep up with all the ways entities want to invade your privacy on the Internet (and elsewhere). Sometimes it seems like too much energy. But that's what they want. Don't give up. Make 'em work a little harder.
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OpenAI's former superalignment team leader, Jan Leike, is not happy with his former company's prioritization of safety. And he would know. What does this mean for the rest of us?
Because that's where the money is.safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products
Over 50 years of climate change warnings. We've heard them all.
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Is artificial consciousness achievable? Lessons from the human brain. This is re-establishing connections, especially in the dorsal column. Which is good that there doesn't need to be input from the brain. It's like the patellar reflex, which doesn't involve the brain at all. As it shouldn't. And the research team is very international, I notice.
We can't expect AI to act like a human with "our" type of consciousness. It may develop and manifest before we recognize it as such.it is theoretically possible that AI research can develop partial or potentially alternative forms of consciousness that is qualitatively different from the human...
Ex-CDC director says it's high time to admit 'significant side effects' of COVID-19 vaccines. High time was 3 years ago. Where was this guy back then? Oh yeah...
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Interesting theory that excess levels of glucose can lead to higher levels of methylglyoxal, which inhibits the BRCA2 gene, which can lead to increased cancer development. So sugar is indeed bad for you, especially if you are a carrier of a mutated and dysfunctional BRCA2 gene.
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There is now talk that Section 230 will no protect Google. For a long time, Google has depended on that law to shield it from legal liability, the argument being that Google only displays search results, and does not actually produce any falsehood or harmful information. But now with AI, Google is indeed potentially generating falsehoods and misleading information. These are showing up in their Gemini demo. If AI-generated information is the default, then one can argue that Section 230 no longer applies.
Well, Google is apparently declaring the end of the Web. Probably something it helped destroy. I like the comment by Jeff Cunningham. So very true, as the Internet has been infiltrated by bots and privacy-invading trackers and ad-revenue supporting networks that sell your information to data brokers. And traditional sites we used to visit for news and entertainment and community, have been replaced by social media giants.
We don't just want an AI-powered personal assistant, we want a private one. That's the rub.
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