2025-02-24
Inalienable Rights vs. Conditional Privileges
From @existennialmemes on Tumblr: Listen, if a Bad President can come in and take away our rights and we’re dependent on a Good President replacing them in four years to...
There’s Something Very Weird About This $30 Billion AI Startup by a Man Who Said Neural Networks May Already Be Conscious
Three years ago, OpenAI cofounder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever said he thinks AI may already be "slightly conscious" — and now, he seems to be selling a different,...
AOC Shows How to Fight Back and Stand Strong. “AOC’s stand for...
AOC Shows How to Fight Back and Stand Strong. “AOC’s stand for her constituents, and her public refusal to be intimidated, are models of resistance that other Democrats would do...
Andor Season Two Trailer
I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to watch an earnest show about an ultimately successful revolution against a fascist government. It will be interesting to see in this...
Microsoft Backing Out of Expensive New Data Centers After Its CEO Expressed Doubt About AI Value
Last week, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made an eyebrow-raising appearance on a podcast, in which he dismissed the current hype surrounding claims of having achieved "some [artificial general intelligence] milestone"...
Ethereum is Not a World Computer, and Swarm is Much More Than Just a Hard Drive
This article explores why Ethereum Swarm, not Ethereum alone, is key to building a censorship-resistant, user-owned Web3. Learn how Swarm enables decentralized social media, content distribution, and the true vision...
Premature optimization
A mental model to detect and prevent optimizing the wrong thing, at the wrong time, or for the wrong reasons
This website is tracking how many people have lost their jobs because...
This website is tracking how many people have lost their jobs because of the USAID Stop-Work Order (55K confirmed, 100K+ estimated globally) and documenting other effects (people dying around the...
Elon Musk's Grok 3 Was Told to Ignore Sources Saying He Spread Misinformation
Elon Musk's "anti-woke" AI appeared to be censoring information about its maker — until folks online pointed out those "special" instructions. As flagged by The Verge, this debacle seems to...
Bybit Only Has Itself to Blame
The Bybit hack is 99% the result of the CEX team’s negligence and only 1% the skill of the hackers, writes Andrew Kuchins. The media has flipped the narrative: they...
HP Added a 15-Minute Waiting Time for Telephone Support Calls
Paul Kunert, reporting for The Register last week: HP Inc is trying to force consumer PC and print customers to use online and other digital support channels by setting a...
Sigma BF
Absolutely beautiful new camera from Sigma. Full-size sensor, interchangeable lens system, but it’s the camera design that jumps out: The Sigma BF represents a new, more intuitive way to use...
Give Feedback, Get Rewarded: Win Sony Headphones or an iPad for Helping Shape HackerNoon’s Future
HackerNoon wants your feedback to help improve the platform! Complete our global survey (and the mobile app one if you’re using the app) to share your experience and preferences. It’ll...
From Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, a list of instructions on...
From Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, a list of instructions on “how to change your settings to make yourself less valuable to Meta”.
A collection of videos of people fighting back against the Trump administration,...
A collection of videos of people fighting back against the Trump administration, incl. Maine governor Janet Mills, former NFL player Chris Kluwe, and AOC. It’s good to see this stuff...
How Philosophers and Scientists View Cognitive AI
Philosophers debate whether LLMs model human cognition or are just statistical systems. The Redescription Fallacy misinterprets AI’s operations, and empirical research is needed to resolve these issues.
How LLMs Learn from Context Without Traditional Memory
Transformer-based LLMs process words in parallel using self-attention and tokenization, enabling next-token prediction. RLHF fine-tunes models for better responses. They adapt through in-context learning and excel in various tasks, from...
The Shift from Symbolic AI to Deep Learning in Natural Language Processing
AI language models have evolved from rule-based NLP and statistical methods to neural networks and transformers, leading to the advanced capabilities of models like GPT-4.
Philosophers Challenge the Idea That AI Lacks True Understanding
This paper explores whether GPT-4 exhibits true intelligence or simply memorizes and regurgitates data, challenging long-held views in AI, philosophy, and cognition.
Shark Steals Camera, Capturing Amazing Footage From Inside Its Mighty Jaws
Divers hanging out with a school of tiger sharks in the Bahamas had a unique run-in with one particularly curious specimen. A video shared by diver Andrea Ramos Nascimento shows...
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