I don't really want "AI" in my search results. What I actually want are search results that accurately correspond to my queries. So far the "AI" tech companies have been showing off tends to do a lot of fabulation; that doesn't bode well for good search results.
This is making the rounds, I think deservedly, and points out that if you set up the encryption on your encrypted media you might be exposed in a way you wouldn't expect.
Hello Fediverse! 👋
#Wikipedia :wikipedia: is a multilingual free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and using a wiki-based editing system called MediaWiki. -- or so says our Wikipedia article (https://w.wiki/W).
Follow for cool facts, behind-the-scenes details on editing processes and tips on getting started contributing!
#Introduction #FreeCulture #FreeContent #OpenKnowledge #wiki #CreativeCommons
So, @wikipedia got its official Fediverse account, and it's verified.
This is big.
On the future AI generated music copyright wars..
"has urged Spotify and Apple to block AI tools from scraping lyrics and melodies from its artists’ copyrighted songs, "
Er how? Surely robots.txt easily evaded..
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-generated-music-streaming-services-copyright/
Sources: Microsoft is developing an AI chip, internally codenamed Athena, since as early as 2019 and is testing it with some Microsoft and OpenAI employees (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsoft-readies-ai-chip-as-machine-learning-costs-surge
http://www.techmeme.com/230418/p13#a230418p13
"Today, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is implementing electronic patent issuance in the form of electronic patent grants (eGrants). All patents issued on April 18, 2023 and forward will be issued as eGrants."
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USPTO/bulletins/35558c4
Are you a UK student looking to do a fully funded PhD in games? Come apply to the swell @iggiphd programme by May 15: https://www.iggi-phd.org/apply. AMA/happy to co-supervise 😊.
Very excited to published @nescio13 today! These are comments he made at an event centering around the great contemporary liberal theorist Chandran Kukathas, and Eric shows himself no slouch in such theory! https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-two-origin-stories-of-liberalism/
READ THIS READING RAINBOW FANS....
"I firmly believe that it is our fundamental right to be literate in at least one language. If you cannot read, you cannot access your full potential in life. This letter is my call to action to parents across the country: We must unite in our shared responsibility to help kids learn how to read and inspire a lifelong love of reading."
-- LeVar Burton
https://www.parents.com/we-are-in-the-midst-of-a-national-literacy-crisis-7371715
Just three days left to vote in the Webby Awards, and it's going to be a squeaker.
VOTE HERE: https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2023/social/general-social/weird
I have the narrowest of leads and need your help to maintain it.
TV stuff; pretty old TV stuff even
So pretty much everyone on #LWord #GenerationQ here is quite promiscuous, and at the same time expect exclusivity from everyone else.
Reminds me of the Romance aspiration characters in #TheSims come to think of it.
@ewdocparris I think it’s broken. It doesn’t fit right, the software keeps glitching, and the connectors are wonky. If I can’t get this working, I’m going to be stuck here. Forever.
He said all the parts I would need are here. He didn’t explain whatever his system was for organizing them. It probably makes sense to him. It make no sense to me. It look like an electronics store blew up.
I’ll have to figure something out. And fast. Time is running out. They’re almost here.
@ewdocparris
She was supposed to be house setting her uncle Kevin’s cat, but she just had to take a peek in the basement workroom. Her uncle was a game developer and always building his own computers. He made the funnest games, so much more interesting that shooters, sims, or builders. They took you to wonderful worlds with imaginative stories that made you think and see life in much different ways. She put on the VR head set, and started his newest game; the file, “TRON by Kevin Flynn.”
"First they came for the trans people and I said FUCK HELL NO THIS IS SOME NAZI SHIT LET'S PUNCH SOME PEOPLE because I've read the previous version of the poem"
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