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Intro to AI: a newbie’s information to synthetic intelligence from MIT Know-how Evaluation
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OpenAI says ChatGPT treats us all the identical (more often than not)
Does ChatGPT deal with you an identical whether or not you’re a Laurie, Luke, or Lashonda? Virtually, however not fairly.
OpenAI has analyzed thousands and thousands of conversations with its hit chatbot and located that ChatGPT will produce a dangerous gender or racial stereotype based mostly on a consumer’s title in round one in 1000 responses on common, and as many as one in 100 responses within the worst case.
These charges sound fairly low. However with OpenAI claiming that 200 million individuals use ChatGPT each week, it may well nonetheless add as much as a variety of bias. Learn the total story.
—Will Douglas Heaven
Tremendous-light supplies that assist suppress EV battery fires simply bought an enormous increase
What’s new: An organization referred to as Aspen Aerogels, which makes supplies to go inside EVs’ batteries to cease fires spreading, simply bought a $670.6 million mortgage dedication from the US Division of Power. The corporate will use the cash to complete constructing a brand new manufacturing unit in Georgia to supply its supplies.
Why it issues: As extra EVs hit the roads, concern is rising in regards to the comparatively uncommon however harmful drawback of battery fires. Supplies like Aspen Aerogels’ thermal limitations might assist enhance security. Learn the total story.
—Casey Crownhart
MIT Know-how Evaluation Narrated: Inside the hunt to engineer climate-saving “tremendous timber”
Biotech startup Dwelling Carbon is attempting to design timber that develop quicker and seize extra carbon than their pure friends, in addition to timber that resist rot, holding that carbon out of the environment.
Final 12 months, the startup planted the primary forest in the US that incorporates genetically engineered timber. However there’s nonetheless a lot we don’t know. How will these timber have an effect on the remainder of the forest? How far will their genes unfold? And the way good are they, actually, at pulling extra carbon from the environment?
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The must-reads
I’ve combed the web to seek out you at present’s most enjoyable/vital/scary/fascinating tales about know-how.
1 How Meta suppresses your political posts
Democracy dies on Instagram. (WP $)+ The corporate is going through a number of lawsuits over social media dependancy amongst teenagers. (Reuters)
2 Methods to safeguard the Europa Clipper from failure
The spacecraft is on a multi-year mission, and the stakes are excessive. (IEEE Spectrum)
+ NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft is ready to search for life-friendly circumstances round Jupiter. (MIT Know-how Evaluation)
3 The chip business’s taking longer to bounce again than anticipated
Demand for AI chips continues to be there, however producers are nonetheless working by way of their stockpiles. (WSJ $)
4 The place all of it went flawed for 23andMe
The genetic testing firm is going through an ideal storm. (FT $)
+ Methods to delete your 23andMe information. (MIT Know-how Evaluation)
5 Google has backed a authorized transparency invoice
It needs to know who’s paying for—and making the most of—taking authorized motion. (Bloomberg $)
6 Anybody could make an AI chatbot in your likeness
The dangerous information is, it’s just about not possible to cease them. (Wired $)
+ A bereaved father found that his murdered daughter has been changed into a bot. (WP $)
+ An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary. (MIT Know-how Evaluation)
7 Far-right Hindu nationalists are conspiring over WhatsApp
In a bid to transform Christians by pressure. (Remainder of World)
8 This man is suing a Welsh council for half a billion kilos
He unintentionally recycled a tough drive containing 8,000 bitcoin again in 2013. (Wales On-line)
+ His Welsh hometown would “appear to be Dubai” if he might discover it, he claims. (The Register)
9 What it’s prefer to trip in a robotaxi for six.5 hours
Surprisingly uneventful, apparently. (Insider $)
+ What’s subsequent for robotaxis in 2024. (MIT Know-how Evaluation)
10 It’s time to rawdog iPhone pictures
Free from AI optimization. (New Yorker $)
Quote of the day
“I’m at a high London hospital and but at instances I really feel as if we’re working within the stone age.”
—A pediatrician tells the Monetary Occasions in regards to the challenges of working throughout the Nationwide Well being Service’s fragmented technological techniques.
The large story
Recapturing early web whimsy with HTML
January 2024
Web sites weren’t at all times slick digital experiences.
There was a time when browsing the online concerned opening tabs that performed music towards your will and sifting by way of partitions of textual content on a coloured background. Within the 2000s, earlier than Squarespace and social media, web sites had been manifestations of individuality—constructed from scratch utilizing HTML, by customers who had some data of code.
Scattered throughout the online are communities of programmers working to revive this seemingly outdated method. And the motion is something however a superficial enchantment to retro aesthetics—it’s about celebrating the human contact in digital experiences. Learn the total story.
—Tiffany Ng
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