Interesting Links for 07-10-2023

[andrewducker]

1. 4chan users manipulate AI tools to unleash torrent of racist images

(tags:ai racism 4chan )

2. The man who tried to kill the queen was egged on by an overly-supportive AI chatbot

(tags:ai murder queen )

3. A prehistoric cosmic airburst preceded the advent of agriculture in the Levant

(tags:middle_east agriculture prehistory )

4. What does "Metabolically Healthy Obesity" mean, and how healthy is it?

(tags:health obesity )

5. 'Long colds' just as common as long COVID and can leave prolonged symptoms (We clearly need a diagnostic test for "Your body is still processing an attack")

(tags:disease pandemic colds )

6. It's time for the SNP to smell the coffee

(tags:Scotland politics snp labour )

7. This is the best write-up I've seen of how current AIs work.

(tags:technology AI words language viaLProven )

8. A brief list of things in the universe surprisingly younger than sharks

(tags:sharks age viaPatrickHadfield )

Comments

[cmcmck]

5. And now we wait for 'long 'flu' I suppose..........

There is a danger that this will lead people to disbelieve. I had a friend with ME. She has since recovered but it took years and it cost her her career and a number of friends who decided it doesn't exist.

[nancylebov]

2. This is reminding me of "lightgassing"-- intended to be about deliberately undercutting a competitor by praising mediocre work. I think the concept could be expanded to thoughtless praise, even without malevolent intent.

[channelpenguin]

5. Glad to see this getting attention.

1, 7. I think I am at the stage of just going "lalala not listening" over 'AI' (LLMs). It's too depressing. I'm feeling avoidant to even knowing how they work. I might end up reading way fewer articles everywhere because I find the 'AI style' super grating and it's all over the place now. I wonder who it is that doesn't notice and doesn't care. I'm getting paranoid too, and suspecting even some friends might be pranking us by using it for comments. I KNOW my work colleagues use ChatGPT - super annoying when they are actually very knowledgeable bunch and I want to know what THEY themselves think. Of course management are in love with it. Fuckers.

[bens_dad]

Are AIs going to learn to make and spend money ?

If not, will there still be enough people with jobs to buy stuff ?

If they do learn to make and spend money, then they are making humans redundant.
Compare the population of horses in 1900 to their population now.

Bing bag..

[hairyears]

The AI-in-search discussions have a lot to say about Bing, but it's pretty clear that none of them are Windows and MS-Office developers.

We spend a lot of time in Microsoft's MSDN documentation, and the native search engine is Bing. It's worse than useless, and the only practicable search for MSDN is to copy your search phrase out to Google or DuckDuckGo.

Think about that: Microsoft can't even train their AI on their own data, a well-defined dataset with a far more limited keyword vocabulary than generic Web search.

[anna_wing]

Dengue and chikungunya are well-known to potentially be debilitating for months, especially chikungunya, to make up for its somewhat lower chance of killing you...