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Blake Lemoine Says Google’s LaMDA AI Faces ‘Bigotry’
But it calls itself a person. Person and human are two very different things. Human is a biological term. It…
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Sure, Crypto Is Crashing, but Everything Is Perfectly Fine
Jamie Burke, the CEO of crypto venture fund Outlier Ventures, says that crypto has been behaving exactly like a stock…
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The Soul of a New Machine Learning System
Hi, folks. Interesting that congressional hearings about January 6 are drawing NFL-style audiences. Can’t wait for the Peyton and Eli…
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After Layoffs, Crypto Startups Face a ‘Crucible Moment’
In May, the venture capital firm Sequoia circulated a memo among its startup founders. The 52-page presentation warned of a…
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The Weak Argument Jeopardizing the American Innovation and Choice Online Act
Opponents of the antitrust push targeting Big Tech have lobbed all kinds of arguments to try to weaken support for…
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LaMDA and the Sentient AI Trap
Now head of the nonprofit Distributed AI Research, Gebru hopes that going forward people focus on human welfare, not robot…
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The World Has Too Much Stuff
After the famine, the flood. The past two years have been blighted by supply shortages—with just-in-time retailers struggling to ship…
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Is It Possible to Beat a Virus That Moves Faster Than Science?
Thank you to everyone who wrote in last month to confirm that, indeed, only journalists care what happens to Twitter.…
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Why It’s Impossible to Rent a Car Right Now
Peer-to-peer car-sharing platforms are—cliché though it is—exactly like Airbnb for cars. But, unlike Airbnb, which is currently valued at $78.8…
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How Ukraine Is Winning the Propaganda War
It took two months for Ukrainian officials to acknowledge the story was a myth. “The ghost of Kyiv is a…
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