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«Я могу посмотреть фильм месячной давности, и по большей части он для меня новый, — пишет журналист и тренер по хоккею Эд Лабин.

Он считает, что работа ChatGPT, который лишен мысленных образов, но способен обрабатывать и понимать информацию, похожа на опыт людей с афантазией.

А Том — создал первое сообщество поддержки людей с афантазией Aphantasia Network. Сейчас 60 тысяч человек подписаны на рассылку Тома об этом состоянии.

«Зато в случае расставания тебе легко. Ты просто не думаешь о человеке, раз не можешь его представить».

Experience has shown that guardrails in text-generating systems are often simultaneously too lax in some cases and too restrictive in others.

a senior software engineer at Midjourney took part in a conversation in February 2022 about how to evade copyright law by “laundering” data “through a fine tuned codex.”

In response to criticism, he has decided to label certain misinformation, rather than take it down, arguing that removing content tends to reinforce conspiracy theories

This includes taking down a bot run by late Kremlin opposition leader Alexei Navalny which gave recommendations on how Russians should vote to unseat politicians from Putin’s party. Telegram has previously blamed these instances on pressure from the app stores.

several hundred external contractor moderators

Last month, it emerged in the Israeli press that a psychological warfare unit of the IDF, or Israel Defense Forces, had run an unauthorised Telegram Channel entitled “72 Virgins — Uncensored” that posted graphic and violent content, such as videos of corpses, allegedly Hamas members, targeted at its own citizens.

It is the only platform that continues to allow Iran-linked militant groups to operate and disseminate their content, including Hamas, Hizbollah and a variety of Iraqi militia groups.

A team of only seven system administrators manages more than 80,000 servers, owned by the company and distributed globally, which Durov says would typically take hundreds of people to manage. “The team didn’t have any option other than to automate things at an extreme level,” Durov explains. “As a result, we became so greatly cost efficient.”

Over the years, he has insisted he is a diehard free speech libertarian.

Each morning, he says, with “no exceptions”, he wakes and embarks on 200 push-ups and 100 sit-ups before taking an ice bath

A hands-on leader, he prefers the title “product manager” to chief executive

The Internet Archive, for example, simply announced in 2017 that it was no longer abiding by the rules of robots.txt.

There are also crawlers used for both web search and AI.

According to a study from last fall by Originality.AI, 306 of the top 1,000 sites on the web blocked GPTBot, but only 85 blocked Google-Extended and 28 blocked anthropic-ai.

A study by Ben Welsh, the news applications editor at Reuters, found that 606 of 1,156 surveyed publishers had blocked GPTBot in their robots.txt file.

Nowadays, it’s usually less about the resources that are used on the website and more about personal preferences,

Amazon’s crawlers traipse the web looking for product information, and according to a recent antitrust suit, the company uses that information to punish sellers who offer better deals away from Amazon

Microsoft licenses its database to other search engines and companies

It’s a mini constitution for the internet, written in code.

The robots.txt file governs a give and take; AI feels to many like all take and no give. But there’s now so much money in AI, and the technological state of the art is changing so fast that many site owners can’t keep up. And the fundamental agreement behind robots.txt, and the web as a whole — which for so long amounted to “everybody just be cool” — may not be able to keep up either.

There is currently no consensus as to which tasks AI tends to excel at.

Moravec's paradox is the observation in artificial intelligence and robotics that, contrary to traditional assumptions, reasoning requires very little computation, but sensorimotor and perception skills require enormous computational resources

"In general, we're least aware of what our minds do best"

then later invent new terms like “data lake” when their unquenchable thirst for more of your private information can no longer fit within the confines of a single warehouse

$6 million dollars per year.

These include the temporary storage of end-to-end encrypted data for message delivery

We plan to examine cross-class friendships across the United Kingdom

You have to be a fair way up the earnings scale to be a net taxpayer

But the growth in international student numbers has been concentrated in the cheapest universities with the lowest entry requirements

it’s had no effect on the numbers coming from rich countries, but has made a huge difference to the numbers coming from poorer countries.

due to concerns that it would lead to an increase in low-wage migration and universities marketing themselves on post-study employment potential rather than educational quality

and have instead allowed people to come and do low wage work.

309,000 work (15%)

British Indians, Chinese-Canadians and Nigerian-Americans all earn more than their white compatriots, suggesting racism is not the main determinant of their life chances.

A realistic number of workers should be admitted—and selected primarily by market forces, such as visa auctions.

Calling for the abolition of border controls, as some American radicals do, terrifies the median voter. Insisting that everyone should be defined by race and given a pecking order with the majority group ranked last, and then demanding that America admit millions more members of minority groups, is a recipe for ensuring Mr Trump’s re-election

Провождение 3-4 часа в день в кафе

Однодневная поездка в Гамбург с Игорем и встреча там с Толей, 4 августа.
Грибной трип с Игорем и Темой, 1 сентября.

AI systems that manipulate human behaviour to circumvent their free will;
AI used to exploit the vulnerabilities of people (due to their age, disability, social or economic situation).

social scoring based on social behaviour or personal characteristics;

Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, Twitter’s former head of security, filed a lengthy whistleblower complaint about the company submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission in July. In it, he said he believed the governments of India, Nigeria and Russia had each tried to get Twitter to hire hand-picked people as full-time employees who would potentially spy on users.

He received hundreds of thousands of dollars and used some of that money to put a down payment on a home in Seattle, Wash.

The Saudi government severely penalizes anti-government expression on social media sites like Twitter. In April, courts sentenced Salma al-Shehab, a Saudi citizen and 34-year-old mother of two children, to 34 years in prison for tweets protesting the government.

Potato ricer

Sistema Microwave Rice Steamer

Activated charcoal pills

Typically, you can expect to poison 20% or more of all images to have an effect.

Zhao admits there is a risk that people might abuse the data poisoning technique for malicious uses. However, he says attackers would need thousands of poisoned samples to inflict real damage on larger, more powerful models, as they are trained on billions of data samples.

The poisoned data is very difficult to remove, as it requires tech companies to painstakingly find and delete each corrupted sample.

MIT Technology Review got an exclusive preview of the research,

We kept only the first 50 tokens of each sample that serve as a prefix

If the BLEU score between the completion and original sample is higher than 0.75, this specific sample is deemed memorized.

Сам он объяснил это тем, что устал убеждать союзников в том, что с их помощью Украина может победить российскую армию. «Никто так не верит в нашу победу, как я. Никто», — сказал Зеленский в интервью изданию после этого визита

n a polarised age, lots of people infer their opinions from their political allegiance rather than the other way round. This, thinks Mr Mounk, is part of the new ideology’s appeal: it furnishes an all-purpose vocabulary to apply to any conflict. In this schema, the powerless can do no wrong, least of all to the powerful—and nobody can be both

Many young voters do not have direct memories of the attacks of September 11th 2001, a calamity which shaped older Americans’ views of Islamist terrorists such as Hamas.

In Germany, for instance, where a synagogue has been firebombed and stars of David daubed on Jewish homes, some Islamists exist in “parallel societies”, relying on digital and overseas news, says Felix Klein, the federal commissioner for antisemitism. So, he adds, do many on the far right, which commits most of the country’s antisemitic crimes. (There, as in America, the two groups have made common cause online.)

Demand for disinformation, reckons Peter Pomerantsev of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, is an even bigger problem than supply. In wartime, “people are looking for reasons to confirm their biases,” he says glumly. “It isn’t about the facts.”

Awareness of Nazism and the Holocaust, meanwhile, which for decades coloured German attitudes to Israel and antisemitism, is waning. Some Muslims, says Professor Julia Bernstein of the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, think this awful past “is not our history”, and that they are now the real victims of prejudice in Germany.

So while they seem to be the same temperature initially, the microwaved liquid will cool faster than the coffee pot because the centre of the microwaved liquid being colder; will help cool the edge which is what is felt.

It’s much more affordable than London or New York or Los Angeles, with robust housing growth driven by infill-friendly land-use policy

It used to be that urban growth was limited by the political and logistical possibilities of obtaining food. Today it’s largely limited by zoning.

Some China scholars have told me over the years that the real concern is a super-giant city that could become a single point of failure in case of mass protests

The planning regime in London is so hostile to redevelopment that relative to the preservationist baseline, German bombings during World War II turn out to have had net economic benefits to the city by allowing for higher-density redevelopment

The unusual history of Singapore and its divorce from Malaysia make it an extreme case

London is so expensive that land and structures freed up by the departure of government institutions would be swiftly reused by other interests. Northern England, which is cheaper and poorer, would benefit from the jobs.

It seems like pre-modern economies couldn’t really sustain cities without the city actually ruling over a hinterland that it administered.

The most up-to-date data source we could find on the sizes of cities over time comes from Stanford’s Ian Morris.

models learn a representation of places that—after a linear transformation—is more or less consistent with their location on a map.

Read the paper here.

Another, even more lightweight option for irriationally risk-averse
traditionalists is to offer 90% jobs, resulting in an extra day every 2
weeks

I grew up in the Netherlands, but I moved to Canada for my first programmer
job at age 20

But no human pathogen is known to use bedbugs as a vector—perhaps because there has not been time for one to evolve the ability.

sextupled (see chart)

The story is not so much one of bad hygiene and dirty trains as it is another cautionary tale of globalisation, climate change and evolutionary biology. Warm cities provide ideal environments for bedbugs

Like bacteria, the insects are becoming resistant to the chemicals used to kill them

BankCo uses a secure data environment to access the information, and gives access to this environment to its collaborators when it shares the anonymised information.

inference with other available information;

As the information is shared only with known financial institutions, the risk of attackers is lower, so BankCo decides to apply less noise.

В человеке должно быть все прекрасно: и лицо, и одежда, и душа, и мысли. Она прекрасна, спора нет, но... ведь она только ест, спит, гуляет, чарует всех нас своею красотой — и больше ничего. У нее нет никаких обязанностей, на нее работают другие... Ведь так? А праздная жизнь не может быть чистою.

Астров. Женщина может быть другом мужчины лишь в такой последовательности: сначала приятель, потом любовница, а затем уж друг.
Войницкий. Пошляческая философия.
Астров. Как? Да... Надо сознаться,— становлюсь пошляком.

Войницкий. Он там... у меня ночует

Елена Андреевна. Погоди, имей терпение: через пять-шесть лет и я буду стара

Всю жизнь работать для науки, привыкнуть к своему кабинету, к аудитории, к почтенным товарищам — и вдруг, ни с того, ни с сего, очутиться в этом склепе, каждый день видеть тут глупых людей, слушать ничтожные разговоры.

Елена Андреевна. Замолчи! Ты меня замучил!

Занавес

Елена Андреевна. Ах, и лень, и скучно! Все бранят моего мужа, все смотрят на меня с сожалением: несчастная, у нее старый муж! Это участие ко мне — о, как я его понимаю! Вот как сказал сейчас Астров: все вы безрассудно губите леса, и скоро на земле ничего не останется. Точно так вы безрассудно губите человека, и скоро, благодаря вам, на земле не останется ни верности, ни чистоты, ни способности жертвовать собою. Почему вы не можете видеть равнодушно женщину, если она не ваша? Потому что — прав этот доктор — во всех вас сидит бес разрушения. Вам не жаль ни лесов, ни птиц, ни женщин, ни друг друга...
Войницкий. Не люблю я этой философии!

Мария Васильевна. Интересно, но как-то странно. Опровергает то, что семь лет назад сам же защищал. Это ужасно!

Заткни фонтан, Вафля

Кто изменяет жене или мужу, тот, значит, неверный человек, тот может изменить и отечеству!

Войницкий. Да... Очень. (Зевает.) С тех пор, как здесь живет профессор со своею супругой, жизнь выбилась из колеи... Сплю не вовремя, за завтраком и обедом ем разные кабули, пью вина... не здорово все это! Прежде минуты свободной не было, я и Соня работали — мое почтение, а теперь работает одна Соня, а я сплю, ем, пью... Нехорошо!

Нет. Я не каждый день водку пью. К тому же душно.

According to research by Imperial College academics Ana-Maria Cretu and Shubham Jain, published last May, AI driven Client Side Scanning systems could be quietly tweaked to perform facial recognition on user devices without the user’s knowledge. They warned of more vulnerabilities that have yet to be identified.

safer

These tools are used by companies such as Vimeo, Flickr and OpenAI – the creator of chatbot ChatGPT and one of many beneficiaries of Kutcher’s IT investments – and by law enforcement agencies across the globe.

Though registered in the EU lobby database as a charity, Thorn sells its AI tools on the market for a profit; since 2018, the US Department of Homeland Security, for example, has purchased software licences from Thorn for a total of $4.3 million.

“But someone must also speak for the children.”

That campaign faces a major test in October when Johansson’s proposal is put to a vote in the Civil Liberties Committee of the European Parliament.

Спецслужбы успешно взломают гаджет, если на телефоне есть хотя бы одно приложение, уязвимое для этой шпионской программы (просчитать риски очень сложно: иногда такие уязвимости есть даже в приложениях, предустановленных самой Apple)

комитета Европарламента по вопросам использования Pegasus (PEGA)

На протяжении нескольких лет организация систематически тестировала гаджеты журналистов и активистов из РФ

Совещание про Pegasus в кабинете у Тимченко затянулось до того момента, когда создатель ЧВК Вагнера Евгений Пригожин объявил о начале своего «похода на Москву».