After a lot of hard work behind the scenes, our Attendee Room (and Suite) lottery is ready to kick off Monday, September 30th at 5pm CDT! The lottery will be open until Saturday, October 5th at 11:59pm. We cannot thank you enough for the patience, and we're excited to see you!
My Etsy shop has started its update and now features dragony pronoun pins and a stylish Fiat bag: foxypride.com and I'll hopefully be able to finish updating it with more stuff (PINS! WASHI TAPE! PATCHES!) by the end of the week.
THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Harvard Medical School have developed a nasal spray that in preclinical studies, offered NEARLY 100% protection from respiratory infections by COVID-19, influenza, viruses, AND pneumonia-causing bacteria. Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️
All - The Justice Department has sued Alabama for purging voters too close to the general election. Today is a good day to check your voter registration: * iwillvote.comvote.orgvote.gov And ask five people in your life to do the same.
In a new lawsuit, the Justice Department claims Alabama violated federal law by systematically removing voters fewer than 90 days before a federal election.
…are you kidding? It makes shit up all the time. It doesn’t understand context. It doesn’t actually understand anything because it’s not _thinking_. It’s just statistics. It takes more human work to vet the genAI lies than just doing the research without it. How is that remotely useful?
I hate that I’m in the position where I’m rooting for an entire sector to fail, but here I am anyway, wanting this to go bust so we can focus on machine learning and leave the generative AI scam behind.
One of my first illustrations for the David Suzuki Foundation was a magical beluga whale skating pond. After a few years, I did this sequel. I think I felt a bit jaded, wondering how we can dream of magic whales when they & the ice are disappearing so quickly #whales#scicomm#sciart#illustration
$150B valuation for some, wrecked lives for others
Behind AI’s rapid advance and our sanitized feeds, an invisible global workforce endures unimaginable trauma.
Is it ethical? No. But does it produce reliable results? Also no. Ahh! But does it make an obscene profit? Again, absolutely not.
Friends, I can promise you zero return on your investment, which is $5B better than these clowns. www.cnbc.com/2024/09/27/o...
CNBC has confirmed that OpenAI expects about $5 billion in losses on $3.7 billion in revenue this year — figures first reported by The New York Times.