Folks, never _ever_ forget that mandating employees be in the office 5 days a week is an employer's favourite way to implement a stealth organisation-wide layoff.
fwiw i'd argue that _any_ social media platform using non-transparent algorithmic "filtering" of the feed should be banned under public health statutes
"But fresh studies have found that Ozempic has impacts beyond what was originally imagined for the drug. People who took the drug died at a lower rate from all causes, not just from cardiovascular causes, researchers discovered."
Gemini Live works a lot like ChatGPT’s voice chat feature, with multiple voices to choose from and the ability to speak conversationally, even to the point of interrupting it without tapping a button
In The Verge’s first interaction with the assistant, rolling out today, it felt like the promised cleverness of digital assistants is finally being delivered. But then Gemini Live kept talking. And talking.
Senior dev: " Kid, I have 3 production outages named after me."
Crowdstrike: "Hold my beer...."
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"I once took down 10% of the traffic signals in Melbourne and years later was involved in a failure of half of Australia's air traffic control system. Good times."
The trouble with generative AI is that, while it’s perfectly capable of performing a certain set of tasks, it can’t do everything a human can, and humans tend to overestimate its capabilities.
Gilead Shot Prevents All HIV Cases in Trial of African Women
Gilead Sciences Inc.’s experimental twice-yearly shot prevented 100% of HIV cases in women and adolescent girls in Africa, the first successful big trial of what’s hoped to become a powerful new drug regimen for fending off the virus.
"We argue that these falsehoods, and the overall activity of large language models, is better understood as bulls**t in the sense explored by Frankfurt: the models are in an important way indifferent to the truth of their outputs."
"Google and the other companies chasing this AI fantasy are desperate to have us see these systems as a life-changing leap forward, but it’s critically important for us to remain aware of the very real minuses that come with this latest shiny plus."
An NDA forbids former OpenAI employees, for the rest of their lives, from criticizing their former employer. Even acknowledging that the NDA exists is a violation of it.
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