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“…ly less abstract questions about how AI progress might disrupt society, but I’m also becoming much more of a power user because AI programming tools have reached the point where they’re now quite helpful with programming our various politics and sports…”

“Following Chatbots aren't encouraging suicide as much What happened: In more optimistic AI news, a new study from independent AI evaluation lab Transluce found that Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic’s chatbots seem to no longer encourage users to die by suicide.”

“Surrounded by scary stories about how artificial intelligence is going to kill us all—or at least steal our jobs—it’s tempting to bury one’s head in the sand, especially if you’re not an especially technologically minded person.”

“But in the free-market USA, independent actors from the broadcasters to the television retailers to the FCC had to somehow agree on technical standards, all the while hoping that the results were sufficient to turn a profit once offered to consumers.”

“…or many years, Effective Altruism — or EA, as it’s known1 — was a cross between a Berkeley technohippie cult and a fun intellectual sideshow that offered nerds a pleasant distraction from whatever people in mainstream politics were yelling at each other…”

“On Sunday, this masthead used Instinct to find and buy a t-shirt from Everwear Denim, a small store in Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, when a different store was out of stock of a similar model tee.”

“…ute, the could tell exactly how old I am and the region I'm from in the U.S. — it isn't really clear how.The video interview took a particularly strange turn when the artificially intelligent Norwood identified Leonardo DiCaprio as a dream co-star, and then…”

“The deepfake was shockingly realistic for the time, and as Sam’s reporting on it from that day on has shown, deepfakes have primarily been used to harass and degrade women.”