Understandable, really. For a community org with very limited resources, employing someone is a critical decision. It’s worth putting a lot of effort into making sure it’s the right person. Good luck.

Can an AI chatbot of Dr Karl change climate sceptics’ minds? He’s willing to give it a try The famous science communicator is planning to release a chatbot designed to answer questions on the climate crisis. Can it work? Jackson Ryan Sun 10 Aug 2025 17.00 CEST There’s arguably no face, voice or collection of exuberant, patterned shirts more recognisable than those belonging to Dr Karl Kruszelnicki. The bespectacled boffin has been answering curly listener questions about science, with characteristic excitement and passion, for more than 40 years. Despite a seemingly tireless work ethic, Kruszelnicki, now 77 years old, can’t be everywhere all at once. Those questions now come in waves, across social media platforms at all hours of the day. “Sometimes I get 300 requests a day on Twitter to answer an involved question about climate change,” Kruszelnicki says.

If you are an advocate of truth, science, evidence and accuracy, you shouldn't be promoting a software program designed to generate aesthetically-plausible text with zero connection to truth beyond chance

How is this so hard for people to grasp

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OTOH - and i don't intend to defend the Poms, at all - but some of the worst food i've ever eaten was at Wrigley Field in Chicago, where we'd gone for a USA cultural immersion experience - watch a baseball game and eat baseball food. The game was mind-bendingly boring, but the food was inedible.

Cartoon shows childrens’ table in background with two men on child’s chairs, in foreground people talking at conference table. Caption : "Hopefully we can have a productive dialogue, now that the Americans are sitting at the kids' negotiating table."

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Deepfakes

I mean the biggest problem is that it says things that make sense, so people start to trust it, when what it says is not connected to truth or falsehood. It doesn't even know it's lying so there's no human cues that suggest it. xkcd.com/2650/

ChatGPT Lost a Chess Game to an Atari 2600 And on the 'Beginner' difficulty level, too.

Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet.

ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.

i've never gotten into short form video or chatgpt and im so hyped to eventually be one of the last remaining people with attention span and analytical skills, i think it's really going to increase my value to enterprising warlords during the water wars

People so often overlook the importance of good penmanship.

If you’re using Google, you can just put “-AI” at the end of the search terms to get rid of that ai slop summary.

You should take a step back and start with Throne of Blood.

Donald Trump said: " I expect the legal profession to understand that the nation is not here for them, but they are here for the nation ...

From now on, I shall intervene in these cases and remove from office those judges who evidently do not understand the demand of the hour." JK it was Hitler

I don’t know how I didn’t see this before.

The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias. The shorthand is that people overestimate their skills/knowledge in a given domain, because they lack the knowledge to assess their own competence.

ChatGPT etc have automated the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Currently appearing at UK bus-stops.

More of this pointed ridicule, please.

Fuck a bucket, it's hot!

Don't forget to visit and care for the elderly and infirm.

That's me, I'm old and broken.

If you're coming to visit and care for me, bring a crate of chilled rosé and a couple of litres of good ice cream.

That Rubio and Trump like AUKUS is just yet another indicator of how shit a deal it is for Australia

Too much, or just about right? 🤷🏼‍♂️

Perhaps he’ll offer them Alaska back.

Maybe CEOs just need to harden-up. 😏 #healthcare #gunviolence #USPolitics

In the future, the role of the National Party will be forcibly removing farmers from their homes at the request of mining companies.

It’s weird to think that Elon Musk will end up having paid far less for the United States Government than he did for Twitter

Also private schools.

It's the new Secretary of Health Charlie Brown
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Billionaire sociopaths routinely lay off huge swaths of their workforces just to impress their shareholders and then when a chunk of fuselage shears off a 737 in midair they're like "ah yes, DEI did that"

For my whole life, conservative politics has argued that letting rich people keep more of their money would, because of their rich-guy genius, redound to the greater good. That was always unconvincing, but we did it anyway and among other things it has delivered the absolute worst posts in history.