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Can GPT-4 Actually Write Code? (tylerglaiel.substack.com)

via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35193188

How do brightly colored organisms survive long enough to warn predators when they are easier to predate than their cryptic peers? (science.org)

Are animals better than plants? (dev.karab.in)

Animals are awesome! They can communicate and form social bonds, while plants are just, well, plants. Animals can move, hunt, and play, making them more dynamic and interesting than plants that just sit there. Sure, plants are cool and provide us with oxygen, but animals are just on another level. If you ask me, animals are...

Upomnienie UODO dla T‑Mobile za skrypty śledzące (internet-czas-dzialac.pl)

Dobre wiadomości! 🙂 Prezes UODO wyciąga wnioski z dotychczasowych postępowań dotyczących cookies. W wyniku naszej skargi duży operator telekomunikacyjny dostaje upomnienie i zmienia sposób odbierania zgód na swojej stronie internetowej.

Quantum mechanics: how the future might influence the past (theconversation.com)

Microsoft lays off team that taught employees how to make AI tools responsibly (dev.karab.in)

**[As the company accelerates its push into AI products, the ethics and society team is gone](https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23638823/microsoft-ethics-society-team-responsible-ai-layoffs)**...

Austrian Data Protection Authority rules Facebook’s tracking pixel illegal (noyb.eu)

The decision is relevant for almost all EU websites. However, when websites include this technology they also forward all user data to the US multinational and onwards to the NSA. While the European Commission is still aiming to publish the third EU-US data transfer deal, the fact that US law still allows bulk surveillance...

Entanglement Swapping and Action at a Distance (link.springer.com)

The night sky is always getting faked (theverge.com)

Venezuela, China, Biden and extraterrestrials: the disinformation of AI becomes widespread (techxplore.com)

Doctored videos of US President Joe Biden warning of aliens, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky snorting cocaine, or US musician Eminem attacking Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador - the use of deep fakes and AI-generated audio-visuals to spread false information is increasingly getting normal, and "usually...

Looking for an open source crypto hardware wallet for BTT (BitTorrent (Tron) (dev.karab.in)

Authors risk losing copyright if AI content is not disclosed, US guidance says (arstechnica.com)

Perhaps the most significant aspect of the guidance is an author’s “duty to disclose the inclusion of AI-generated content in a work submitted for registration," the US Copyright Office says. Also, authors must be human to register works. However, an author who arranges generative AI into a specific sequence—like...

"I'm not that hip and trendy": New Zealand PM doesn't use TikTok, but the country bans the app from government-issued phones (techxplore.com)

New Zealand lawmakers and other workers inside the nation's Parliament will be banned from having the TikTok app on their devices, following similar moves in many other countries.

Low-cost device can measure air pollution anywhere (news.mit.edu)

O przyczynie zmiany klimatu firmy paliwowe wiedziały od 60 lat, ale trzymały to w tajemnicy (crazynauka.pl)

cross-posted from: https://szmer.info/post/295267...

A single-dose F1-based mRNA-LNP vaccine provides protection against the lethal plague bacterium (science.org)

How to repost a Fediverse post to a specific Lemmy community? (dev.karab.in)

National Academies: We can’t define “race,” so stop using it in science (arstechnica.com)

With the advent of genomic studies, it's become ever more clear that humanity's genetic history is one of churn.

Oli Bini, represjonowany za znajomość z Julianem Assange, wciąż nie może opuścić Ekwadoru (netzpolitik.org)

Amerykańska organizacja zajmująca się obroną praw obywatelskich, EFF, poinformowała, że pomimo wyroku uniewinniającego szwedzki aktywista, Ola Bini, wciąż ma zakaz upuszczania kraju. Sprawa ciągnie się już od 4 lat i - jak zauważyła organizacja - wciąż obserwuje się proces opóźniania rozwoju sprawy....

O czym pamiętać podczas fotografowania zwierząt? Naukowcy z Białowieży mają kilka rad (smoglab.pl)

Can i install lemmy's backend from the master branch but connect it to a front-end from other repo? (dev.karab.in)

I want to install lemmy's backend from lemmy's master branch but use other lemmy UI who supports RTL....

Niektóre z miejscowości na Kiribati: London, Paris, Poland, Banana (lotnisko jest w Banana) (media.karab.in)

'Suspicion Machines': When Artificial Intelligence Can Ruin Your Life (lighthousereports.com)

Governments all over the world are using their citizens' personal data -from someone’s children’s travel history to machine-made guesses about who someone sleeps with- and combine them into 'fraud risk scores'. How these algorithms work is largely hidden from the public, but they are already transforming once...

[EN] The stupidity of AI (theguardian.com)

cross-posted from: https://szmer.info/post/294910...

The stupidity of AI (theguardian.com)

> Artificial intelligence in its current form is based on the wholesale appropriation of existing culture, and the notion that it is actually intelligent could be actively dangerous