PawsUp

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49429587

URL for the crowdfunding: https://www.crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific-objects/open-book-touch

Specs:

• Display: 4.26" e-paper touchscreen, 480 × 800 px, warm + cool frontlight
• Processor: ESP32-S3 dual-core, Wi-Fi + Bluetooth LE
• Memory: 16 MB flash, 8 MB PSRAM
• Formats: EPUB and plain text, no DRM
• Storage: microSD card slot
• Interface: USB-C with integrated LiPo charging
• Dimension: 78 × 120 × 10 mm, about 85 g
• Open source: MIT-licensed firmware, open hardware (to be released at shipping)

It also has a replaceable 800 mAh battery, I found it cool :)

It's a designed algorithm.

The rocket engines you'll see in this video were neither created by humans or AI.

edit: removed the baiting

Telegram's t.me short-link domain has been placed into serverHold status at the registry level, causing invite links, channel links, and usernames to stop resolving globally. Unlike an application outage, a serverHold status removes a domain from DNS resolution entirely, making it effectively disappear from the Internet until the status is lifted

Lemoine, who is also ordained as a mystic Christian priest, told Wired he became convinced of LaMDA's status as a "person" because of its level of self-awareness, the way it spoke about its needs and its fear of death if Google were to delete it.

He insists he was not fooled by a clever robot, as some scientists have suggested. Lemoine maintains his position, and even appeared to suggest that Google had enslaved the AI system.

Telegram’s core domain t.me has been placed on serverHold at the .me registry, effectively removing it from global DNS and rendering all t.me links inaccessible.

The change occurred today, according to domain records. As of now, there has been no official explanation from Telegram, the .me registry, or backend operator Identity Digital.

A serverHold is a registry-level status that completely dead-ends the domain, preventing it from resolving anywhere in the world.

Only one notch above junk level.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1260166/climate-gov-was-destroyed-open-data-saved-it

Data-driven innovation has recently changed the mindset in data sharing from centralized architectures and monolithic data exploitation by data providers (data platforms) to decentralized architectures and different data sharing options among all involved participants (data ecosystems).

Differences between the various data ecosystems are not clear, making it hard to choose the most suitable for each use case, negatively impacting their adoption. Since the domain is growing fast, a review of the state-of-the-art data ecosystem initiatives is needed to analyze what each initiative offers, identify collaboration prospects, and highlight features for improvement and open research topics. In this paper, we review the state-of-the-art data ecosystem initiatives, describe their innovative aspects, compare their technical and business features, and identify open research challenges. We aim to assist practitioners in choosing the most suitable data ecosystem for their use cases and scientists to explore emerging research opportunities.

For years, tech giants have argued that if information is available on the internet, it can be used for AI model development and outputs. They call it fair use. Content owners have tried to prevent this, with no success.

Now Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google are discovering what the rest of the internet has already learned through painful experience: once you put something online, people will find ways to use it in ways you don't like and can't stop.

The latest flashpoint is something called "distillation," using the outputs of one AI model to improve another. Anthropic says competitors are harvesting its outputs at scale, turning billions of dollars of research into a shortcut for rivals. OpenAI and Google have made similar warnings recently.

Remove Paywalls Link

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1259761/we-must-act-now-nearly-200-including-eric-schmidt-reid-hoffman-economists-tech-leaders-a

A letter calls for policymakers to do more to understand and respond to potential disruptions from artificial intelligence.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1259159/the-new-york-nurses-replaced-by-ai-ai-makes-inroads-in-healthcare-threatening-patient-ca

Montefiore is planning to lay off real nurses and replace them with artificial intelligence (AI)-powered software. These are nurses who use their decades of bedside experience and clinical judgement to review insurance denials and make sure patients get the care they need covered by insurance.

Replacing real nurses with AI is terrible for workers and the economy in the Bronx. It could also have negative consequences for patients in the Bronx.