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Tuesday, July 30, 2024

THE AUTHOR OF “THE METAVERSE: AND HOW IT WILL REVOLUTIONIZE EVERYTHING” IS CHANGING THE TITLE AFTER IT WAS PUBLISHED


 
America’s 60-Year-Olds Are Staring at Financial Peril WSJ


A Brief History Of Olympic Villages — And What They Left Behind In Their Host Cities

Have the buildings created as lodging for thousands of athletes really provided housing and other benefits for their neighborhoods after the Games are over? Don't cynically assume that the answer is no: the record is quite mixed. Perhaps the best example: Helsinki. - BBC

We may finally know how the placebo effect relieves pain New Scientist


Trump team files FEC complaint over transfer of Biden’s $91M to Harris campaign: ‘Brazen money grab’ FOX


AI trained on AI garbage spits out AI garbage

MIT Technology Review: “AI models work by training on huge swaths of data from the internet. 

But as AI is increasingly being used to pump out web pages filled with junk content, that process is in danger of being undermined. New research published in Nature shows that the quality of the model’s output gradually degrades when AI trains on AI-generated data. As subsequent models produce output that is then used as training data for future models, the effect gets worse.

 Ilia Shumailov, a computer scientist from the University of Oxford, who led the study, likens the process to taking photos of photos. “If you take a picture and you scan it, and then you print it, and you repeat this process over time, basically the noise overwhelms the whole process,” he says. “You’re left with a dark square.” The equivalent of the dark square for AI is called “model collapse,” he says, meaning the model just produces incoherent garbage.  This research may have serious implications for the largest AI models of today, because they use the internet as their database.

 GPT-3, for example, was trained in part on data from Common Crawl, an online repository of over 3 billion web pages. And the problem is likely to get worse as an increasing number of AI-generated junk websites start cluttering up the internet…”




WA man charged after taking off his clothes and assaulting crew member on a flight bound for Melbourne The Australian Will we have to add “WA man” to “Florida man”?


THE AUTHOR OF “THE METAVERSE: AND HOW IT WILL REVOLUTIONIZE EVERYTHING” IS CHANGING THE TITLE AFTER IT WAS PUBLISHED Futurism


THE AUTHOR OF “THE METAVERSE: AND HOW IT WILL REVOLUTIONIZE EVERYTHING” IS CHANGING THE TITLE AFTER IT WAS PUBLISHED Futurism


Evil Empires? New Left Review


Our obsession with ownership Steve Keen


The Techies Who Lunch The Baffler