David W. Barber

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

"OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

This isn't a dead canary in the coal mine, it's a miner. AI doesn't work.

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

YouTube video by David W. Barber A&W Addams

A friend wondered what a mashup of the Addams Family theme and the A&W Root Bear theme might sound like. Well, it might sound something like this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVeS...

Wow! This is some top-notch investigative journalism. The report claims the 3 million Epstein files released are only 2% of the total.

The massive scale of what’s still missing is hard to comprehend.

“If anyone causes one of these little ones - those who believe in me - to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea - unless the Dow is doing well that week”

Matthew 18:6

d 1857 – Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (b 1804)
d 1965 – Nat King Cole, American singer and pianist (b 1919)

Feb 15 otd
b 1883 – Sax Rohmer, English-American author (d 1959)
b 1905 – Harold Arlen, American composer (d 1986)
b 1907 – Jean Langlais, French organist and composer (d 1991)
b 1947 – John Adams, American composer
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Hugs 😝

No surprise here. Raise your hand (that special way) if you did Nazi this coming.

Not Apartheid Clyde, the world’s richest man, posting his obsession with replacement theory every damn day in January.

Cartoon by Michael De Adder

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

😕🇺🇸💰

#poetry #writing #valentine

Roses are red
Violets are nice
Nazis are bad
Abolish ICE

Screenshot of Tommy Ten Names, claiming he's afraid and fleeing the UK.

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country?

Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

Welcome to the Plutocracy

Zelenskyy in Munich: “The Ukrainian Army is the strongest army in Europe, thanks to our heroes.

“And I think it is simply not smart to keep this army outside NATO.”

Koh: I wish that Kristi Noem had as much passion for homeland security as she has passion for Corey Lewandowski.

d 1986 – Edmund Rubbra, English composer, conductor (b 1901)
d 2010 – Dick Francis, Welsh jockey, author (b 1920)

Rushdie has lost the use of his right eye and partial use of one hand, making typing difficult.
b 1819 – Christopher Latham Sholes, American journalist, politician, invented the typewriter (d 1890)
d 1975 – P. G. Wodehouse, English novelist, playwright (b 1881)
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1989 – Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses. Risks to his life and safety continue. As recently as August 2022, an attacker stabbed Rushdie in the neck, face and abdomen.
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Feb 14 otd
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray. Just think, if Bell had not won out, today we’d be answering the telephone gray.
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AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

The view from my home office window if I crane to the side. At some point this will all come crashing down. Abolish ice!

(Not mine -- posting from someone else)