Very hard to focus on work in LA when a gigantic storm is about to devour my home town. Especially when I’m working on fossils of things that died in a disaster.
Really glad the @cpsc.gov is here. A legit account verified with a dot gov url. Please follow and share its alerts.
From Florida Division of Emergency Management: TODAY, is the last chance to use the free evacuation shuttle service in Manatee, Pinellas, Pasco, Hillsborough & Sarasota counties. Call 800-729-3413 for info & visit floridadisaster.org/Updates for shuttle locations.
Someday, we'll view this era of unregulated AI the same way we currently view the era when businesses freely dumped toxic waste into public waters
1: AI is hallucinating events, historical figures, entire concepts on Wikipedia 2: a task force of Wikipedia editors is detecting and deleting this stuff www.404media.co/the-editors-...
WikiProject AI Cleanup is protecting Wikipedia from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information that has plagued the rest of the internet.
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Information about Hurricane Milton 2024.
Poor Elsa is on a strict resting protocol (no jumping onto furniture!) after surgery last week so we have a crate to make sure she doesn’t do that while we sleep or shower or whatever. Mayday has been very “helpful” about trying to undo the latch to let her dog friend out.
In textual criticism we say "the more difficult reading is the stronger," since repeated transcription/interpretation tends to drag us to the more banal and commonplace choice of word or idea. What if LLMs are like that, but for all of human culture?
The pivot from "humans can't possibly influence the climate" to "the government directly controls the weather" was as inevitable as increasingly violent storms in a warming world.
Google's wonderful AI believes that the Canada Goose, which was described by Linnaeus, was named after a random dude named John Canada.
