Gavin Boyce

YouTube video by Research & Impact at Sheffield University of Sheffield Economic & Social Impact Assessment

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A critical bibliography about LibGen, the pirate site that Meta used for AI training Yesterday, academic social media went into overdrive as many intellectuals discovered LibGen (“Library Genesis”) for the first time, thanks to an article and tool in The Atlantic.

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AI chatbots distort and mislead when asked about current affairs, BBC finds Most answers had ‘significant issues’ when researchers asked services to use broadcaster’s news articles as source

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Scientists crack what they say is the perfect way to boil an egg Linda Geddes tests new approach developed in Italian lab that involves alternating egg between different temperatures

That's my Saturday morning sorted.

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Initial Rescissions Of Harmful Executive Orders And Actions – The White House By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... so much to discuss with colleagues... but lets start with Executive Orders 14084 (Promoting the Arts, the Humanities, and Museum and Library Services) and 14110 (Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence)......

‘Godfather of AI’ shortens odds of the technology wiping out humanity over next 30 years Geoffrey Hinton says there is 10% to 20% chance AI will lead to human extinction in three decades, as change moves fast

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“If you basically have a child narrating back stuff it heard elsewhere, you need to take that with a pinch of salt.”
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Is doom scrolling really rotting our brains? The evidence is getting harder to ignore | Siân Boyle ‘Brain rot’ is the Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year – a fitting choice, given the startling impact the internet is having on our grey matter, says journalist Siân Boyle

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"ChatGPT’s Poetry is Incompetent and Banal: A Discussion of (Porter and Machery, 2024)" - cs.nyu.edu/~davise/pape...

AI poetry rated better than poems written by humans, study shows Findings suggest non-expert poetry readers who participated preferred AI works because they find them more straightforward and accessible

My very next LLM prompt: "poetry is what happens in the space between logic and chaos." discuss... www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

AI cloning of celebrity voices outpacing the law, experts warn David Attenborough among famous people whose voices have been exploited by fraudsters

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Large language models not fit for real-world use, scientists warn — even slight changes cause their world models to collapse Large language model AIs might seem smart on a surface level but they struggle to actually understand the real world and model it accurately, a new study finds.

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