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axlsalinger
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Cal Gal
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Ex-Google exec says degrees in law and medicine are a waste of time because they take so long to complete that AI will catch up by graduation
Ex-Google exec says degrees in law and medicine are a waste of time because they take so long to complete that AI will catch up by graduation
“Higher education as we know it is on the verge of becoming obsolete,” the former Google AI leader told Fortune.
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The Artist Formerly Known as chiggins.
>>While A.I. capabilities have made extraordinary leaps since the debut of ChatGPT in 2022, science has yet to find a clear path to building intelligence that surpasses humans.
In a recent survey of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, an academic society that includes some of the most respected researchers in the field, more than three-quarters of the 475 respondents said our current approaches were unlikely to lead to a breakthrough.
While A.I. has continued to improve as the models get larger and ingest more data, there’s concern that the exponential growth curve might falter. Experts have argued that we need new computing architectures beyond what underpins large language models to reach the goal.
Now let’s look at what’s happening in China. The country’s scientists and policymakers aren’t as A.G.I.-pilled as their American counterparts. At the recent World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, Premier Li Qiang of China emphasized “the deep integration of A.I. with the real economy” by expanding application scenarios.
While some Silicon Valley technologists issue doomsday warnings about the grave threat of A.I., Chinese companies are busy integrating it into everything from the superapp WeChat to hospitals, electric cars and even home appliances. In rural villages, competitions among Chinese farmers have been held to improve A.I. tools for harvest; Alibaba’s Quark app recently became China’s most downloaded A.I. assistant in part because of its medical diagnostic capabilities. Last year China started the A.I.+ initiative, which aims to embed A.I. across sectors to raise productivity.
Cal Gal
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This drew me into the article:
Then I lost track of it in the article. Interesting stuff, nevertheless, I guess.
www.dezeen.com
Then I lost track of it in the article. Interesting stuff, nevertheless, I guess.
Vilo is a handheld device that provides comfort after pregnancy loss
University of Leeds student Lucia Guest has developed a therapeutic device to emotionally support people who have experienced miscarriage and stillbirths.
www.dezeen.com
Cal Gal
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Kid makes some good points.
www.yahoo.com
Teen prodigy Kairan Quazi is ditching SpaceX for billionaire Ken Griffin’s Citadel Securities
Teen prodigy Kairan Quazi is ditching SpaceX for billionaire Ken Griffin’s Citadel Securities
Quazi has defied every expectation since he was 10. Now the teen prodigy is defying the allure of Silicon Valley.
MindzEye
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Kid makes some good points.
Teen prodigy Kairan Quazi is ditching SpaceX for billionaire Ken Griffin’s Citadel Securities
Teen prodigy Kairan Quazi is ditching SpaceX for billionaire Ken Griffin’s Citadel Securities
Quazi has defied every expectation since he was 10. Now the teen prodigy is defying the allure of Silicon Valley.
Wonderful world we've built, where our brightest people dive into the world of financialization of everything to help our wealthiest squeeze just a little bit more out of the economy....instead of doing useful shit to improve the human condition, advance human knowledge, etc.
MindzEye
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MindzEye
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Fwiw, I've been using a combination of Duck Duck Go and Chat GPT in a personal experiment for the last few weeks to replace google and I'm never going back to their search. Change the default search engine on your devices, you'll never notice the difference. Anything you were using Gemini for (the AI bit at the top of your google search), Chatgpt is better for that and when you're just looking for actual webpages, DDG seems to do just fucking fine.
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Leafyblue
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I'm surprised that Google still allows Ad blockers. I can't recall the last time I saw an ad online(sorry, Habsy). Without an adblocker, the internet is unwatchable, just like broadcast television. I have YouTube Premium even though the ad blocker blocked most of the ads, because I like to support the people I watch. (sorry, Habsy)
MindzEye
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I'm surprised that Google still allows Ad blockers. I can't recall the last time I saw an ad online(sorry, Habsy). Without an adblocker, the internet is unwatchable, just like broadcast television. I have YouTube Premium even though the ad blocker blocked most of the ads, because I like to support the people I watch. (sorry, Habsy)
Google makes more money off of chrome user data than they do off of those specific eyeballs on ads. If they did something like block all ad blockers on chrome, a lot of those users would just switch to Firefox, Brave, etc.
Even if you run something like ublock origin, if you're using google's search engine you're still seeing their ads on search. It's only google "network" ads that run on other websites that get blocked.