We're coming close to the tail-end of the photo retrospective. This set is from when I first moved to Bristol in 2000. Shot on the cheapest used manual SLR and 50mm lens I could find. #photos #film #blackandwhite
It’s simultaneously annoying and unsurprising to see academics and researchers who argue that creating a digital mind is improbable or impossible being subjected to more criticism and held to a higher standard than those arguing that tech bros are creating a completely new form of sentient life
> But AI is foundationally unethical in ways that go far beyond its creative theft, and which do not only concern the communities from whom that work was stolen.
The YouTube gambling ad bombardment has started again. Reported six today. Technically it was all the same ad routed through six different advertisers.
These seem to be the same voiceover script, just slightly different animation and different brand name. I'm guessing they rotate through brands.
It'll be interesting to see if the report success rate drops with the new brand or if it will stay at around 90% as it has lately.
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Been seeing a few people outright claim that studies that outline specific reasons why Large Language Models won't lead to "Artificial General Intelligence" are "whitewashing creationism", because apparently showing that a task isn't feasible somehow affirms the existence of a divine soul
> At the Media Lab, I learned that the discourse of “ethical AI,” championed substantially by Ito, was aligned strategically with a Silicon Valley effort seeking to avoid legally enforceable restrictions of controversial technologies
The photos I was taking outdoors I. 2003-4 have a similar focus on the mundane although they’re also have a greater similarity to the kind of photos I take today. #photos #film #blackandwhite
