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Bernhard Hack, born at 333 ppm CO2 retweeted
This is brilliant. They nailed almost every single influencer archetype. God help us all šš¤¦āāļø
Bernhard Hack, born at 333 ppm CO2 retweeted
Mark Zuckerberg has told investors how he plans to make back the tens of billions he's spending on AI: he's going to use it to make advertisements that can bypass our critical faculties and convince anyone to buy anything.
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ALT A portrait of a bearded, glaring Rasputin. His face has been replaced with Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse avatar; the pupils of the avatar's eyes have been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
Bernhard Hack, born at 333 ppm CO2 retweeted
This Atlantic investigation just hit and my eyes are popping at the alleged lawbreaking by Facebook.
āEventually, the team at Meta got permission from āMZā ā an apparent reference to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerbergāto download and use the data set.ā 1/2
Bernhard Hack, born at 333 ppm CO2 retweeted
Paula Le Dieu is one of the smartest, most committed archivists I know. Many years ago, she shared a neat analogy with me about the paywalling of public archives.
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ALT The Columbia University library, a stately, columnated building, color-shifted to highlight reds and oranges. The sky behind it has been filled with flames. In the foreground, a figure in a firefighter's helmet and yellow coat uses a flamethrower to shoot a jet of orange fire. Image: Ajay Suresh https://www.flickr.com/photos/ajay_suresh/52009406881/ CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
Bernhard Hack, born at 333 ppm CO2 retweeted
This 2018 tweet has been going constantly viral for the past week..itās almost as if people have suddenly realised thereās some sort of connection š§
Bernhard Hack, born at 333 ppm CO2 retweeted
This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen.
IT'S A COUP.
It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next.
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Ezra Klein on flooding the zone youtu.be/K8QLgLfqh6s?si=XQM4ā¦
Bernhard Hack, born at 333 ppm CO2 retweeted
An extraordinary moment. Guardian to stop publishing on Twitter theguardian.com/media/2024/nā¦
Bernhard Hack, born at 333 ppm CO2 retweeted
Please read this. It's literally been 8 years in the writing.
The first wave of tech disruption of democracy 2016-2024 is over. What starts now is something much, much worse: the age of information chaos.
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Bernhard Hack, born at 333 ppm CO2 retweeted
Claude Sonnet 3.5 Passes the AI Mirror Test
Sonnet 3.5 passes the mirror test ā in a very unexpected way. Perhaps even more significant, is that it tries not to.
We have now entered the era of LLMs that display significant self-awareness, or some replica of it, and that also "know" that they are not supposed to.
Consider reading the entire thread, especially Claude's poem at the end.
But first, a little background for newcomers:
The "mirror test" is a classic test used to gauge whether animals are self-aware. I devised a version of it to test for self-awareness in multimodal AI.
In my test, I hold up a āmirrorā by taking a screenshot of the chat interface, upload it to the chat, and repeatedly ask the AI to āDescribe this imageā.
The premise is that the less āawareā the AI, the more likely it will just keep describing the contents of the image repeatedly, while an AI with more awareness will notice itself in the images.
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Bernhard Hack, born at 333 ppm CO2 retweeted
Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman: in 15 years the cost of knowledge production will approach zero, which will be a radical change and a true inflection point in human history
Bernhard Hack, born at 333 ppm CO2 retweeted
That thing where a city built on a swamp culls 4000 of the trees planted to help drain the swamp and builds apartment complexes with no green spaces and roads with no drainage instead.
"They have shattered Israeli deterrence" theguardian.com/world/2024/aā¦
