Sharon Nichols

Misinformation spread by adversaries and AI

Also, using AI to recognize it.
10-1/2 minutes, plus a one-minute self-promotion at the end:

Reg dropped a link to an awesomely informative NYT article about AI advancement in drones supplied to or made by Ukraine. I got so immersed in it I lost track of time. Microsoft’s CoPilot gave me a summary of quotes from it. See it below the link. CoPilot also estimated a reading time of 20 minutes, but it felt more like an hour-long…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
From AI Welfare to AI Warfare. This is a great read.

Absolutely a great read! Written half like a mini-novel, and half like a documentary. I’m adding it to the AI Group…

[…] AI welfare is a legitimate domain of inquiry because we cannot rule out the possibility that AI systems may have—or may one day develop—consciousness. The authors describe this as “an open question,” but they then unbalance the scales by linking to a preprint by several philosophers—including world-renowned philosopher of conscious…

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jakelafort wrote:
Next Mexico and Cuba.

My guess he’ll not mess with them, but just throw his usual pejoratives and trumped up outrage at them. He’s gotten mileage from the kidnapping and subsequently acting like (or actually fantasizing that) he’s taking over Venezuela. Maybe Steven Miller’s spiking his drinks and stoking fantasies. “Please…[Read more]

Roberts’ and Popok’s (Legal AF) summary of SCOTUS 2025

My subtitle: “Independent” Judicial Branch capitulates to King T

15-1/2 minutes (plus 1-1/2 minute self-promotion at end)

I keep hearing about where AI is weak, and that’s ok. It’s often true. But many in society typically prefer to just leave it at that, ignoring that AI is at least good at: Summarizing the words and conclusions of everything published on the internet. For better, and for worse, of course, but I love delving into topics that would take ten or a…[Read more]

Here are a few things to watch out for in the next few months, with risks seasonally increasing at social gatherings. Be cautious during gatherings, and increase your awareness in the following weeks and months of news about any spread of RSV, more than one type of avian flu, possibly Covid, and possibly (but less likely) measles. The CDC has been…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
This story prompts more questions than answers.

I would start with the primary causes and facts, first.

The “R nought” factor for measles is estimated to be between 12 and 18, meaning on average in a fully susceptible population, an infected person will infect 12 to 18 other people. This leads to an estimate that a…[Read more]

Trump & Kabal, and Bannon and Project 2025 behind the scenes make headway while pumping out executive orders and any kind of rage and cult enthusiasm they can stir up to produce distracting headlines. I feel dumb not realizing, up until today, that releasing the Epstein files could have also served that purpose. Unless Trump et al knew it would…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
They don’t much care about democracy.

I still have hope they can shed their cult uniforms. They surprised me with their gullibility and falling for a malignant narcissistic style of self-confidence, arrogance, and bullshit “solutions that will save America”, and they WILL suffer some consequences when it hits rural America e…[Read more]