The irony is that we are sooo close to effective AI-driven fact checking and moderation capabilities. Instead he goes for hivemind and groupthink? Did he even walk down the hallway to chat with with Yann about this?

After Meta's "free speech" pivot, AI faces a no-rules world The technology will be coming of age at a moment when tech firms have adopted an anything-goes stance.

The irony here is that AI is both a producer of and guardian against misinformation. Using a hive mind of fallible humans to run community fact checks is not gonna help. Where is LeCun in all of this? www.axios.com/2025/01/08/a...

New studies show EV batteries could last over two decades Contrary to early fears that EV batteries would rapidly degrade and render vehicles obsolete, mounting evidence suggests the contrary, to the surprise of many.

“Contrary to early fears that EV batteries would rapidly degrade and render vehicles obsolete, mounting evidence suggests that these batteries may outlast their fossil-fuel counterparts.”

Repurposed batteries store energy from solar panels, power street light, and act as backup batteries.☀️🌍

Towards Safety Cases For AI Scheming — Apollo Research Developers of frontier AI systems will face increasingly challenging decisions about whether their AI systems are safe enough to develop and deploy. One reason why systems may not be safe is if they e...

«AI Scheming», where an agentic LLM manipulates the results, is a growing problem. www.apolloresearch.ai/research/tow...

EFF-Austin Holiday Party!, Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 7:00 PM | Meetup Join us for the EFF-Austin holiday party! What used to be an annual tradition is finally back, and in an awesome new space graciously donated for the festivities in south A

We're having a holiday party and you're invited!

College students used Meta’s smart glasses to dox people in real time Privacy will always be a major concern with smart glasses.

This is unsettling. PII should be filtered from most interfaces that ingest image based data. Wonder it this is a glitch. www.theverge.com/2024/10/2/24...