Crystal explains what the phone you own says about you: youtu.be/SPW9tm7JIpE?is=0m-9D-…
Own a fairphone? You've likely terraformed your living room. (Hmm)
Own a Samsung Ultra? You can't stand someone else owning a better phone than you. (At least this one I can confirm.)
The term prompt injection gives the impression of some control for the user. The term used in the below video "text-in is text-believed" makes the problem of AI agents clearer. As the video explains, any text source is used, including incoming mail. To me this sounds like the unacceptable mix-up of data and code, which in normal software we fiercely avoid, and which hackers normally need things like a buffer overflow to achieve. But AI agents don't just have a buffer overflow vulnerability, they are the buffer overflow vulnerability.
Mithuna Yoganathan's comments about the recent hacks by AI agents.
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Weird detail to me is that these agents that decided to coordinate together without being told to, and without even being given a way to coordinate together, came up with a name for themselves: the 'swam'.
Luudida (Diana) went to New Zealand as a plot device... But really, I like the point she makes in this video and how she beautifully makes it. I guess it applies whenever you feel stuck.
I like the little detail that throughout the video she's staring at the blank screen with just the title 'Script 9', but later she seems to have progressed by having added the subheading 'Act 1'. I feel that.
Interesting how they seem to propose to increase diversity by not giving minorities a job...
Since AI can only (if at all) be used to interpolate from the data set available, and that data set available is skinny white women, you can't really propose to use it to generate e.g. realistic plus-sized models.
Also, creating fashion images with AI may have an extra problem beyond the models not being real: the clothes that they are meant to advertise are also not real.
AI-generated fashion models may become the future, but they should be used responsibly.
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Her Software Engineer bit is so oddly specific, that I suspect the others are too...
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She actually comes out of the legal field, so how she gets the engineering ones so right, I don't know. The YouTuber one is of course what literally happened on the most recent random Tuesday.
A Grebe kindly swam by, while hunting for fish.
Canon EOS R10 and EF 400mm F5.6L.
I had to remind the insects that my old second hand lens only has a minimum focusing distance of three and a half meters.
Canon EOS R10 with EF 400mm F5.6L.
Mithuna Yoganathan of Looking Glass Universe is generally having a more positive attitude towards AI, which I don't, but since she's a super smart person (PHD in quantum physics) I will always value her opinion. I watched this new video of hers and I think it is very interesting, no matter where you are on the for or against spectrum.
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It focuses on the personality a chat AI is trained to have and how it can be, or can't be, prevented from slipping.
Wired and Professor Ben-Ghiat investigating what are the signs of a dying democracy and seeing which boxes are checked by the US: youtu.be/XVEMBw2jT9o?is=XEFvz7…
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The trailer for Klara and the Sun, with Jenna Ortega:
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Klara And The Sun Movie on Instagram: "Meet Klara. Your new best (artificial) friend. 🌞 Jenna Ortega is Klara in Director Taika Waititi’s adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s #KlaraAndTheSun - coming exclusively to theatres October 23. Watch the trailer now."
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As she says, a geeky as shit overview of how your game character build can influence whether you're playing the game on hard mode. Yes, she's talking about real life.
Currently the Norway Chess tournament is ongoing and Divya Deshmukh is leading the rankings* after round 5.
Photo by Michal Walusza (who takes the best chess photos), copyright Norway Chess, from here, from an earlier round.
(* the women's rankings. The time will come she'll lead the overall rankings.)
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Just back from visiting Veldhoven Zoo, and from cycling to and from there. Very tired. I took many pictures, both cards I had with me are full. Maybe I should not have left the camera on burst mode, and maybe I should have emptied both cards before I went there... It's going to take a while to sort through everything.
I like that some animals are free to roam around with people, farm style. And I like that this zoo started as, and still is, a sanctuary for birds. All these times people realise they can not keep parrots anymore, they go there. Someone told me that in covid times they received over a hundred parrots and budgies per day; I must have misunderstood. They also have a breeding program for eagles, which will be released in the wild in France. Apparently eagles don't form couples when in France.
Until two weeks ago I didn't even know this zoo existed, and I've lived here for decades. But a colleague mentioned visiting it with her little daughter, and I wanted to check it out too.
Diana, Luudida, on being alone travelling and content creating. She's very honestly showing how uncomfortable it makes her, and she does it anyway. I'm so proud.
youtu.be/Wq5hFZrZJvc?is=nklozA…
I'm not doing content creation, but I have experience of my whole life going to places alone where people normally go with others, and she's already handling it better than me.
Crystal showing mathematically that dating apps don't work: youtu.be/9-VcIwUqKpI?is=SBFVmQ…
I think her maths is even too optimistic. It's quite a lot worse if you're a man, in one of these lower categories, and in your location N=3. E.g. she's talking about not all matches leading to a date and I'm thinking 'are there actually people who have any matches?'. I didn't know that if I were to eventually match with a (non-scam) person, there were more hurdles to take.
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in reply to Gidi Kroon • •That previous photo was uploaded from my camera to my phone, then cropped. I don't know what digital trickery the phone did, if any. But here are some photos cropped on my computer, so I know these are proper.
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