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AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are | Naomi Klein
AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are | Naomi Klein
I should avoid using the term "hallucinate" for LLM output.
There is a world in which generative AI, as a powerful predictive research tool and a performer of tedious tasks, could indeed be marshalled to benefit humanity, other species and our shared home. But for that to happen, these technologies would need to be deployed inside a vastly different economic and social order than our own, one that had as its purpose the meeting of human needs and the protection of the planetary systems that support all life.
·theguardian.com·
AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are | Naomi Klein
How our history of downzoning is an argument against "local control" in the legislature and has huge impacts on racial discrimination in housing
How our history of downzoning is an argument against "local control" in the legislature and has huge impacts on racial discrimination in housing
Shocker that redlining lived on after becoming de jure disallowed
We know the current landscape of dominant, exclusionary single family zoning in our region happened at the same time the last tools to legally and openly discriminate in housing were taken away.
·olympiatime.com·
How our history of downzoning is an argument against "local control" in the legislature and has huge impacts on racial discrimination in housing
The Real-World Costs of the Digital Race for Bitcoin
The Real-World Costs of the Digital Race for Bitcoin
It should be illegal or prohibitively expensive to mine.
In Texas, where 10 of the 34 mines are connected to the state’s grid, the increased demand has caused electric bills for power customers to rise nearly 5 percent, or $1.8 billion per year
After accounting for the savings and revenue from each of the strategies, Riot told investors its electricity cost in 2022 was 2.96 cents per kilowatt-hour.By comparison, the average price for other industrial businesses in Texas was 7.2 cents. For residents, it was 13.5 cents.
·nytimes.com·
The Real-World Costs of the Digital Race for Bitcoin
Inside One Band's Absurd, Infuriating Legal Nightmare
Inside One Band's Absurd, Infuriating Legal Nightmare
This is a wild story. Seems like the band should win this one.
While lawyers try to sort through this mess, Kulash has been busy recording OK Go’s follow-up to their 2014 LP Hungry Ghosts. They were about halfway done with it when they had to take an 18-month break so Kulash and his wife, Kristin Gore, daughter of former Vice President Al Gore, could co-direct the upcoming Apple movie The Beanie Bubble.
·rollingstone.com·
Inside One Band's Absurd, Infuriating Legal Nightmare