COMMUNITY, CRIME & JUSTICE - a selective newsfeed
At least 11 of the 17 members of the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) have conflicts of interest with the likes of Nestle, sugar manufacturer Tate and Lyle, and the world's largest ice cream producer, Unilever, reports Sophie Borland in The BMJ.
Training AI programs, known in the industry as large language models (LLMs), involves scraping vast quantities of text or images from the internet.
This information is broken into trillions of tiny machine-readable chunks, known as tokens.
When asked a question, a program like ChatGPT selects and assembles tokens in a way that its training data tells it is the most likely sequence to fit with the query.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-08-inbred-gibberish-mad-ai.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
This sounds remarkably like the behaviour of some quiz masters, who make an enquiry on a search engine, and look no further than the listed results, which include the terms used in the query, but don't necessarily confirm the answer.
Another example is the lions at Battle Abbey query, quoted in https://www.academia.edu/116629864/Artificial_Intelligence_the_Way_Forward
And I am sure there are thousands, if not millions more.
Google confirmed Friday that it had pulled an ad for its Gemini artificial intelligence after viewers pointed out that encouraging your child to use AI to write a fan letter is maybe not the best way to educate them. May open a can of worms.......
The frightening scenes of far-right extremists have many wondering how to stop the spread of the propaganda that encourages racism, violence and misogyny.
It's imperative an answer is found; anti-social media is the curse of our times, as some of us predicted, but weren't listened to, when it was still early enough to put restrictions in place. What is the answer now?
Evidence is mounting that the new generative AI internet search tools provided by OpenAI, Google and Microsoft can increase the risk of returning false, misleading or partially correct information.
See - https://www.academia.edu/116629864/Artificial_Intelligence_the_Way_Forward
In a new study of politicians' personalities, humor, charm and raw courage are listed among the most important character traits for successful leaders.
How about maturity, experience of the wider world of work, less PPE, more intelligence......
MPs are elected to represent the views and desires of their communities. Being subject to the whip means they may have to vote against this - so much democracy!
