Notices by Mark Pesce (mpesce@arvr.social), page 2

@quinn Guillotine jokes are more 14 July, aren't they? #touts

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.

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/07/02/mit-robotics-pioneer-rodney-brooks-thinks-people-are-vastly-overestimating-generative-ai/

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.

Lenacapavir will provide an easier-to-use option compared to other HIV prevention drugs that are either daily pills or must be injected every two months. https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/gilead-shot-prevents-all-hiv-cases-in-trial-of-african-women/ar-BB1oAfz8

Voice assistants and AI chatbots still can’t say who won the 2020 election

With months to go before the U.S. presidential election, some popular AI chatbots and voice assistants offer potentially harmful misinformation.

*sigh*

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/16/ai-chatbots-alexa-2020-election-results/

Voyager 1 is back online! NASA's most distant spacecraft returns data from all 4 instruments

IT'S BAAAAAAAACK! 🛰️

https://www.space.com/voyager-1-fully-operational

"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."

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/06/14/chatgpt-is-bullst/

"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."

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/05/28/gemini-is-the-new-google/

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.

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/05/23/chatgpt-can-talk-but-openai-employees-sure-cant/

@mike @evan @tchambers @J12t that plus some nice application frameworks plus some outstanding apps to inspire and we'll be well on our way...

@mike Now what we are in need of is a 'Cambrian Explosion' of fediverse applications.

It'll come - at some point... But how do we meaningfully lower the barrier to entry of that new class of Fediverse-all-the-things apps?

@evan THE TINKYWINKYOPTICON

MICHEL FOUCAULT THOU ART AVENGED

(h/t @blood@yourwalls.today)

“Get it the **** off my system” and “in the trash where it belongs” were common refrains as users voiced their displeasure at having Copilot forced upon them. Numerous reports emerged of people immediately disabling, hiding, or removing the AI assistant.

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/03/27/windows-users-dont-want-copilot-on-their-taskbar-they-want-it-in-the-bin/

Researchers found that with some spare cash and enough technical know-how, even a "low-resourced attacker" can tamper with a relatively small amount of data that's invasive enough to cause a large language model to churn out incorrect answers.

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/03/26/for-60-you-could-poison-the-data-ai-chatbots-rely-on-to-give-good-answers-researchers-say/

If you're wondering what it means when a massive array of satellites gets placed into low orbits around our planet...

Now you can see what it means, in real time.

https://www.starlinkmap.org/

An International Monetary Fund study recently predicted that AI was poised to impact 60 per cent of all jobs in advanced economies like ours, with about half of those to benefit from AI increasing productivity and the other half to be adversely impacted.

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/03/21/there-are-big-opportunities-in-ai-but-also-very-real-risks-how-can-governments-get-the-balance-right/

For the life of me I do not understand why @dangoodin's reporting on Microsoft's serious and continued security issues are not top of the page on every business news site in the world. This is the world's _most_ valuable company. And it's really not succeeding at defending itself against this Russian attack. Why isn't Nadella being dragged in the media _every day_ until this is fully resolved? 🤷🏻♂️

And a reminder

Gemini 1.5 promises to be faster and more efficient thanks to a specialization technique called "mixture of experts," also known as MoE. Instead of running the entire model every time it receives a query, Gemini's MoE can use just the relevant parts...

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/02/22/heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-gemini-1-5-googles-newly-updated-ai-model-that-hopes-to-challenge-openai/

This (rather long and rather important) article shows how completely the Web has entered its terminal phase of Late Capitalist enshittification.

Read it.

ping @pluralistic

https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/