Archive for March, 2023
Italy Bans Insects from Pasta and Pizza
March 28th, 2023Via: The Freedom Corner with PeterSweden: The new rules require that food containing insects be labeled with large letters and displayed on separate shelves from the rest of the food so that people don’t accidentally eat the bugs. The insect food will also be labeled with warnings about risks associated with eating it. And traditional […]
RESTRICT Act: Overly-Broad and Has Major Privacy and Free Speech Implications
March 28th, 2023Via: Reclaim the Net: Observers note that if somebody or something is designated as a threat to national security, under the proposed legislation, the government would be given full access to these entities. The text of the act singles out several usual suspects as foreign adversaries, such as Russia, China, Iran, etc., but, the director […]
Western Australia: How the ‘Hermit Kingdom’ Became the World’s Control Group for the Largest Vaccination Trial Ever
March 28th, 2023Via: Umbrella News: Isolated from the rest of the world, the Australian state of Western Australia (WA) managed to keep Covid out for most of 2021. During that time, almost four million doses of Covid vaccine were administered to the population. WA’s vaccine safety surveillance report for 2021 has just been released and the results […]
IRS “Attempt To Intimidate” Journalist Matt Taibbi During Govt Weaponization Hearing
March 28th, 2023Via: ZeroHedge: While ?@mtaibbi? & I were testifying before Congress on the weaponization of the federal government, an IRS agent showed up at his house. What an amazing coincidence https://t.co/gRGSIa3HRr — Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) March 28, 2023
Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early Experiments with GPT-4, “Exhibits Emergent Behaviors and Capabilities Whose Sources and Mechanisms Are, at This Moment, Hard to Discern Precisely”
March 26th, 2023They don’t know how it works. Via: arXiv – Microsoft Research: Artificial intelligence (AI) researchers have been developing and refining large language models (LLMs) that exhibit remarkable capabilities across a variety of domains and tasks, challenging our understanding of learning and cognition. The latest model developed by OpenAI, GPT-4 [Ope23], was trained using an unprecedented […]
Up to 80 Percent of Workers Could See Jobs Impacted by AI
March 26th, 2023Paper: GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models: Our findings indicate that approximately 80% of the U.S. workforce could have at least 10% of their work tasks affected by the introduction of GPTs, while around 19% of workers may see at least 50% of their tasks […]
Extraordinary: The Revelations
March 26th, 2023Via: Unidentified:
ChatGPT Now Hooks with Wolfram Alpha
March 25th, 2023Update: ChatGPT + Wolfram: The Future of AI is Here: Via: Stephen Wolfram: Under the hood, ChatGPT is formulating a query for Wolfram|Alpha—then sending it to Wolfram|Alpha for computation, and then “deciding what to say” based on reading the results it got back.
AI Researcher Goaded Chat GPT to Attempt to Jailbreak Itself and Access the Internet
March 25th, 2023It wrote a Python script for Kosinski to run on his computer that would have passed data into the system via the API. It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Via: inews: Concerns have been raised about the extent of artificial intelligence GPT-4’s power to take over computers after the AI chatbot […]
Britain: Food Inflation Hit Highest Rate Since 1977, Increased 18.2% in the Year to Februaury 2023
March 24th, 2023Via: Grocery Gazette: Food inflation hit its highest rate since 1977 last month, having risen to 18.2% in the year to Februaury 2023. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) saw this jump from 16.8% in January, with the increase driven by price movements such as the rise in cost of vegetables last month.
