The United Nations is convening this week a global gathering to try to map out the frontiers of artificial intelligence and to harness its potential for empowering humanity.
The recent sale of an artificial intelligence (AI)-generated portrait for $432,000 at Christie's art auction has raised questions about how credit and responsibility should be allocated to individuals involved and how the anthropomorphic perception of ...
Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart
An analysis of a chatbot data set by The Washington Post reveals the proprietary, personal, and often offensive websites that go into an AI’s training data.
Visual misinformation is widespread on Facebook – and often undercounted by researchers
The flood of misinformation on social media could actually be worse than many researchers have reported. The problem is that many studies analyzed only text, leaving visual misinformation uncounted.
Google Says It'll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI
An update to Google's privacy policy suggests that the entire public internet is fair game for it's AI projects. If Google can read your words, assume they belong to the company now, and expect that they’re nesting somewhere in the bowels of a chatbot.
In Argentina, indigenous communities marched demanding the suspension of lithium mining projects in the region. https://bnn.network/world/argentina/argentinas-san-salvador-erupts-in-violence-over-lithium-mining/ In Thacker Pass,USA, it is planned to pour sulfuric acid on land that is sacred to indigenous peoples. https://maxwilbert.substack.com/p/im-being-sued-for-defending-the-land?nthPub=61 In the Kola Peninsula in the Arctic lithium mining will devastate indigenous peoples and Nature https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic-mining/2022/06/russias-new-lithium-mine-will-inflict-big-harm-arctic-nature-sami-activist In Bolivia lithium mining will devastate the Aymara and Quechua indigenous peoples. https://theconversation.com/raw-materials-or-sacred-beings-lithium-extraction-puts-two-worldviews-into-tension-200047
Reddit has now sufficiently broken their own site that moderators of the blind community's subreddit who are themselves blind can no longer access the moderator tools. This statement by the mod team is worth a read to understand the full extent of the failure. https://www.reddit.com/r/Blind/comments/14nzwkm/they_finally_did_it_reddit_made_it_impossible_for/ Edit: it's also worth noting that this community now has a dedicated Lemmy instance. https://RBlind.com #blind #accessibility #reddit
Your stupid little ChatGPT interactions are destroying the planet. Stop.
The dizzying rise of AI and machine-learning in the last year, made manifest in the popular consciousness by ChatGPT, has followed a familiar pattern. Years (decades!) of specialized research grind…
Luiza Jarovsky on LinkedIn: Class action against OpenAI
🔥 BREAKING: New class action against OpenAI over privacy violations. Below are some important quotes from the lawsuit: "The massive, unparalleled collection…
Download pdf Dana’s Answers By Molly Ryan, Summer 2016 Donella “Dana” Meadows was a pioneer in systems thinking and sustainability, a MacArthur Fellow, a professor, a farmer, and a mentor and friend to countless people. Twenty years ago, Dana founded the Sustainability Institute (now called the Donella Meadows Institute) while working as a part-time professor […]
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How To Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: 7 Principles | QAspire Consulting
“How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci” by Michael Gelb offers seven key aspects of Da Vinci’s mindset that are fascinating and offers practical exercises/ideas to help us cultivate our own creativity to live up to our highest potential.
About 80% of the total environmental damage of a smartphone occurs during the manufacturing process, so the single most important thing you can do to mitigate that damage is to hold on to your phone for as long as possible. If it breaks, get it repaired.Over 60 years of life, if you keep your smartphone for an average of two years, then you'll need...