Clara Listensprechen @ClaraListensprechen4@social.cleverlibre.org

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Much like a sitcom dad, I have no clue.

Edith spills something on Archie's klan robes and takes them to George Jefferson's dry cleaners to get them cleaned.

Hilarity ensues.

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I assumed 'Big Bang' referred to an orgy. When is the orgy?

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Kramer's new AI startup chatbot is incredibly racist

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It is indisputable that some - and only some - criticism of #Israel does cross the line into #antisemitism.

But what surprises me more is how much support for #Israel is also, often, anti-semitic as well or coming from those who've expressed blatantly #antisemitic views. How come that doesn't get called out as much?

Personally, I feel the biggest driver of antisemitism globally is, in fact, the #Israeli government. They are making things worse for Jewish people around the world.

APOD 2023-12-12: Aurora and Milky Way over Norway by Giulio Cobianchi - via Astronomy Picture Of The Day from NASA at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/

Oh Claudine Gay, Harvard's president true
Your courage and strength seen through and through
Your alumni stand strong, sure and proud
A beacon of light in a tempestuous cloud

#harvard #claudinegay #alumnisupport #courage #ode #poetry

http://www.businessinsider.com/harvard-rallies-behind-president-claudine-gay-amid-calls-for-resignation-2023-12

Which Stupid Came First? The Chicken (Trump) Or The Egg (Giuliani)? https://politizoom.com/which-stupid-came-first-the-chicken-trump-or-the-egg-giuliani/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

University has found a cocktail of nasty pesticides in oysters and water in one of the NSW North Coast’s dominant rivers.

"New research led by Southern Cross University has found a cocktail of nasty pesticides in oysters and water from one of the NSW North Coast’s dominant rivers. Samples taken from the Richmond River estuary reveal 21 different pesticides, including a mix of herbicides, insecticides and fungicides. The study is the most comprehensive investigation that has been undertaken into the pesticides entering waterways from agricultural and urban run-off in northern NSW"
"The concentrations of several pesticides exceeded safe environmental guidelines, including atrazine and diuron that are banned overseas. Benomyl was also detected despite being banned in Australia.....“At present there is little accountability for the downstream impacts from land-based run-off.”
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https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/that-really-shucks-pesticide-pollution-threatens-shellfish-safety
#NSW #coast #pollution #pesticides #RichmondRiver #rivers #drains #oysters #food #CumulativeRisks #wildlife #ocean #estuaries

Don't chase a puking cat.

This symbol you see everywhere this time of year is *not* a snowflake.

It is the 8-pointed 🌟Bethlehem Star 🌟, a tatreez (embroidery) symbol that has decorated #Palestinian #artwork for centuries and was brought to Europe via the Crusades.

Of the hundreds of motifs that are featured in tatreez, the Bethlehem Star is one of the oldest and most enduring. It represents the Star that guided the Three Kings on #christmas night.

https://youtube.com/shorts/M8YTa1sRh3c?si=PHaSxHWvgM8ltZEs

#palestine #history #art #culture #Gaza

Some very clever and industrious scammers in India built their own toll plaza and bypass roads and managed to scam motorists and the government for 18 months. If nly they used their industry and brainpower for good... https://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/fake-toll-plazas-in-gujarats-morbi-busted-patidar-leader-son-4-others-booked-for-extortion/3334100/

Online retailer Zulily sues Amazon for "bullying" behavior https://t.co/6NmGgxSEZS

Today's AI News & Comment

MIT group releases white papers on governance of AI
https://news.mit.edu/2023/mit-group-releases-white-papers-governance-ai-1211

Arena Group fires CEO in wake of Sports Illustrated AI articles scandal
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/12/arena-group-ceo-ross-levinsohn-fired-sports-illustrated-ai-articles

Laredo wants to use gen AI to automate dev work
https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/12/laredo-wants-to-use-gen-ai-to-automate-dev-work/

Businesses need to address the AI elephants in the room
https://www.techradar.com/pro/businesses-need-to-address-the-ai-elephants-in-the-room

Microsoft partners with major US unions to try and reassure workers on AI
https://www.techradar.com/pro/microsoft-partners-with-major-us-unions-to-try-and-reassure-workers-on-ai

Durable cements $14M to build bots and other AI tools for small businesses in service industries
https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/12/durable-cements-14m-to-build-ai-powered-tools-for-small-businesses-in-service-industries/

Google working on an AI assistant that could answer 'impossible' questions about you
https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/google-working-on-an-ai-assistant-that-could-answer-impossible-questions-about-you

Buzzy Startup Just Dumps AI Model That Beats GPT-3.5 Into a Torrent Link
https://gizmodo.com/mistral-artificial-intelligence-gpt-3-openai-1851091217?utm_source=vip

Strategies for building AI tools people will actually use at work
https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/12/strategies-for-building-ai-tools-people-will-actually-use-at-work/

Snapchat+ subscribers can now create and send AI-generated images
https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/12/snapchat-subscribers-can-now-create-and-send-ai-generated-images/

US Copyright Office Rejects AI Image That Blends Real Photo and Van Gogh
https://petapixel.com/2023/12/12/us-copyright-office-rejects-ai-image-that-blends-real-photo-and-van-gogh/

Meta’s AI for Ray-Ban smart glasses can identify objects and translate languages
https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/12/23998780/ray-ban-smart-glasses-hey-meta-multimodal-ai-features

Judges Given the OK to Use ChatGPT in Legal Rulings
https://gizmodo.com/uk-judges-now-permitted-use-chatgpt-in-legal-rulings-1851093046

Deadmau5-founded startup Korus taps into AI for music creation
https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/12/deadmau5-founded-startup-korus-taps-into-ai-for-music-creation/

Microsoft Thinks the Future of AI Is Powered by Nuclear Energy
https://themessenger.com/tech/microsoft-ai-nuclear-power-application

The Rise of Linux AI Assistants
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/rise-linux-ai-assistants

Microsoft releases Phi-2, a small language model AI that outperforms Llama 2, Mistral 7B
https://venturebeat.com/ai/microsoft-releases-phi-2-a-small-language-model-ai-that-outperforms-llama-2-mistral-7b/

OpenAI’s nonprofit arm showed revenue of $45,000 last year, even though company is worth billions
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/12/openai-nonprofit-arm-45000-in-2022-revenue-company-worth-billions.html

Output’s AI-powered software automatically generates music sample packs from text prompts
https://www.engadget.com/outputs-ai-powered-software-automatically-generates-music-sample-packs-from-text-prompts-184104250.html

Who will win and lose the AI revolution?: Top economists Robert Reich, Jeffrey Sachs and Mariana Mazzucato discuss
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/12/reich-sachs-and-mazzucato-discuss-the-winners-and-losers-of-ai.html

How Opera's AI bot beats Google at its own game
https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/work-life/operas-aria-beats-google-at-its-own-game/

Oracle literally can't build enough cloud computing for Elon Musk's xAI
https://qz.com/oracle-literally-cant-build-enough-cloud-computing-for-1851092519

A Democratic campaign deploys the first synthetic AI caller
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/12/democratic-campaign-ai-caller-00131180

Google might show us the scary side of Gemini: AI that knows everything about you
https://bgr.com/tech/google-might-show-us-the-scary-side-of-gemini-ai-that-knows-everything-about-you/

$2 trillion worth of counterfeit products are sold each year. Can AI help put a stop to it?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ai-counterfeit-detection-amazon/

Geekbench ML 0.6 lets you directly compare Mac against iPhone
https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/12/12/geekbench-ml-06-lets-you-directly-compare-mac-against-iphone

How GenAI can turn an autobiography into an interactive Black history lesson
https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/12/how-genai-can-turn-an-autobiography-into-an-interactive-black-history-lesson/

Marissa Mayer wants to embrace the AI race and risks — in the right way
https://www.businessinsider.com/marissa-mayer-biggest-concern-around-ai-adoption-2023-12

Meta reveals its AI voice cloning tool, and you can try it for yourself
https://www.xda-developers.com/meta-ai-voice-cloning-tool-demo/

AI can do your homework. Now what?
https://www.vox.com/videos/2023/12/12/23998858/ai-chatgpt-education-cheating

These Researchers Broke ChatGPT and Made It Talk About Theft, Weapons and Assassination 
https://themessenger.com/tech/chatgpt-openai-bard-google-robust-intelligence-ai-artificial-intelligence

How to use DALL-E 3 in ChatGPT
https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-use-dall-e-3-in-chatgpt/

Finding a better way to use cameras to reduce crime
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-cameras-crime.html

The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are getting AI-powered visual search features
https://www.engadget.com/the-ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses-are-getting-ai-powered-visual-search-features-204556255.html

Robo dogs and AI inspectors might be coming to the border
https://www.axios.com/2023/12/12/border-patrol-us-mexico-ai-robo-dogs-drones-inspectors

Unions are winning protections as AI-powered workplaces grow
https://www.axios.com/2023/12/12/unions-microsoft-ai-battles

Tenyx aims to fix LLMs’ catastrophic forgetting problem
https://venturebeat.com/ai/tenyx-aims-to-fix-llms-catastrophic-forgetting-problem/

Cohere to help businesses build AI using Slack, Google Drive data
https://venturebeat.com/ai/cohere-to-help-businesses-build-ai-using-slack-google-drive-data/

Chip-company boss says the idea of humans losing control of AI keeps him up at night
https://www.businessinsider.com/arm-boss-rene-haas-humans-losing-control-ai-2023-12

Feds want anti-drunk-driving tech in cars — here’s what stands in the way
https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/12/feds-want-anti-drunk-driving-tech-in-cars-heres-what-stands-in-the-way/

Emerge 2023 Person of the Year: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
https://decrypt.co/209445/emerge-2023-person-of-the-year-openai-ceo-sam-altman

Federal watchdog finds more than 1,000 ways government could use AI
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4354878-federal-watchdog-finds-more-than-1000-ways-government-could-use-ai/

Prediction Based on Past Data Has Its Limits
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-hovercraft-full-of-eels/202312/prediction-based-on-past-data-has-its-limits

Bizarre Theory Claims ChatGPT Is Suffering From Seasonal Depression
https://futurism.com/bizarre-theory-chatgpt-seasonal-depression

5 ways AI changed the internet in 2023
https://mashable.com/article/ways-ai-changed-the-internet-2023

#TodaysAINewsAndComment
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ML #MachineLearning
#LLM #ChatGPT #BingChat #SwarmsOfRampantAIChatbots

and the current covid response... or rather, covid denialism...

Shows me how little most of the entire species of humanity cares.

Most of the people I get along with, they cover their breath holes with good masks.

Thank you, you rare few. You give me hope, and a breath of life, while most of humanity hasnt helped me feel better.

P.S. Am I expecting most of humanity to help me? Pfft, no. I wish most of humanity would leave me alone, and stop making laws and noises that add pain into my life.

I gifted our 2 neighbours, next door on both sides of our house, some of my homemade fried ramen. Both have family in hospital ATM & had told me that they are struggling to just feed themselves because they're so worried & at hospital almost all day. They enjoyed my fried ramen & called to ask how I made it.

I told them, they can come over(masks on) & watch how I throw a bunch of fresh & leftover ingredients together & BOOM!

Radsome yummy fried ramen is done ☺️

#AsianMastodon #ISendNoods

I hope by sharing this, more people will learn to talk & share with their own neighbours more. We cannot truly build community without talking & sharing with each other.