New psychology research reveals the cognitive cost of smartphone notifications A recent study in Computers in Human Behavior provides evidence that a single smartphone pop-up derails mental focus for seven seconds. Researchers found that fragmented digital habits cause more cogn...

When I disabled all the notifications on my smart phone, I felt such an enormous sense of relief. It took me a while to figure out why. It was because I wasn't being constantly interrupted
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Union street fire: support Haus of Hair Last month, my wonderful hairdresser and friend Gemma left her job to fulfil her dream of starting her own salon with fellow stylist Aimee. 'Haus of Hair' opened last week. I visited on Friday and wa...

I follow Zara Gladman on Instagram and minutes ago she posted that her friends new hairdressing business has just burned down this evening in the glasgow fire. It opened just days ago. There’s a link if you can spare a few quid. www.paypal.com/pools/c/9nhn...

There are no heroes in commercial AI When it comes down to it, Dario Amodei isn’t all that much different from Sam Altman

Dario is no saint either:
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The person responsible for the crime - is the one who committed the crime using the tool.

We can all get access to things that can do harm, but actually doing harm is a choice.

Legislation can be created to prevent harm which will create a new crime e.g. It's illegal to sell knives to under 18s

Models we know were trained on pirated books (a non-exhaustive list):

GPT-3 (OpenAI)
GPT-3.5 (OpenAI)
Claude 1 (Anthropic)
Claude 2 (Anthropic)
Llama 1 (Meta)
Llama 2 (Meta)
Llama 3 (Meta)
OpenELM (Apple)
BloombergGPT (Bloomberg)
Megatron-Turing NLG 530B (Microsoft & Nvidia)

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Next phase:

Should we be impressed more by the size of the M&M or the size of the Chicken Leg? What's the scale here exactly?

Seems unnecessary. Once they are in the cloud they can't do anything other than be experimental data or at best virtual "lab rats".

The other sellers of Tai Chi Super Hero training are after me now.

I have done Tai Chi before, many years ago and its quite a laid back art. One thing it is not is super muscle building.

The avatars even appear shirtless in "Ted Talk" style settings. That would be absolutely fine. I image it's normal and even expected at a Ted Talk for a random audience member to ask how her husband can get get the full benefits of Tai Chi. "start small" is the key it seems...

The answer is no. Obviously i's no. Your "Dad" is 'just doing it wrong' ...as you can see from my shirtless body.

The algorithm has locked me in for these adverts now. Clearly any interest at all = show more and charge their customer for better quality "interested" eyes. My interest is mainly hilarity.

This one address the complaints...

Mr.Fake Universe is back. This time topless at a conference. Is the inference we are meant to take is Tai Chi makes you this size? :)

Ai avatar of a topless extremely muscular shao-lin monk in an interview

Internet Adverts have been unethical for quite some time, but in the era of AI, adverts can now have a high level of "visual exaggeration" :). Like here a YouTube Ad that sells Tai Chi exercises via Mr.Universe avatars that try to look like Shao Lin monks (there were 2 in this 1 ad).

Its always had a desktop form factor - just buy a case for it. This is just a bigger case with a bigger power supply.

*the humans

Brutal (but fair) Guardian headline today

Only 3% of respondents to the UK government’s consultation on AI & copyright supported their unfair plan to hand AI companies people’s work for free.

95% said AI companies should license training data.

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I really don't understand the love for this film. It's very odd.

Reminder

It's never good to use simpler words. Then people only really know simpler words.

When Podcasts Platform Terrible People YouTube video by Ryan George

The most unsubtle, yet brilliantly done, argument on popular Podcasts and the "both sides" argument. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBq3...

^you

Ethics is part of Data Governance. AI is just another technology solution your pay for or build, and is subject to your Data Governance framework. The concepts, controls and processes around this are free and available.

Google Scholar Is Doomed Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

There's always someone along in a minute that wants to make it about them. :)

Bending the knee? That's British subtlety, but it is still clear.

a man talking to a robot which says it 's high it 's very high ALT: a man talking to a robot which says it 's high it 's very high

I immediately went to the replies to count the occurrences of "inconceivable". :)

The United that plays at Old Trafford.

Well that was nonsense. Hope someone had some fun making it up at least.

Advice | Sometimes We Resist AI for Good Reasons Why higher ed needs to listen to the contrarians in setting policies on using tools like ChatGPT in faculty work.

“Either we have copyright law or we don’t. Either plagiarism and the theft of intellectual property are anathema to higher education or they aren’t. We’re either modeling academic honesty and integrity to our students or we aren’t.” —@thetattooedprof.bsky.social
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