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What AI Thinks It Knows About You What happens when people can see what assumptions a large language model is making about them?

When you peer inside a large language model’s black box, you can see what it tells you when it thinks you’re rich—and what it tells you when it thinks you’re not.

@zittrain.bsky.social on the assumptions AI makes about people:

I really wish I could describe GenZ what it felt like growing up in a miracle. My grandfather on my mother's side was a dentist. He had a grand encyclopedia collection and it was just this incredible thing. You could pick up a random book and go to a random page and just be regaled with information

Gente, o NotebookLM faz um negócio considerado ficção científica até pouquíssimo tempo atrás. Fiz o upload do meu paper com o @rafaelcariello.bsky.social (doi.org/10.1111/ehr....) e ele criou esse podcast:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/slacp...

The State of the Culture, 2024 Or a glimpse into post-entertainment society (it's not pretty)

Gosto demais de ler o que o @tedgioia.bsky.social escreve (e esta é a segunda vez em que linko pra ele hoje). Segundo ele, o entretenimento engoliu a arte, a distração engoliu o entretenimento e o vício está engolindo a distração. Baita texto, aliás. Você deveria ler sem pressa.

Solar will get too cheap to connect to the power grid. The cost of solar panels is plummeting, and this will flood the power grid with cheap electricity. But that’s just Act 1. We won’t stop building solar at the limits of the grid - we’ll build a lot mor...

Today in good news for optimists:

"The solar panel is wizardry manifest. It literally prints energy from free shit that falls out of the sky." climate.benjames.io/solar-off-gr...

Barbarians at the Gates How the Internet Archive is putting publishers to shameAnyone interested in developing a deep understanding of Botticelli’s great mythological works simply must read Charles Dempsey’s 1992 classic,…

"The amount of economic harm that the publishers are presently suffering as a result of the IA has not only never been quantified, it has not even been roughly attempted to be quantified."

🔗 "Barbarians at the Gates” by Howard Burton for @ideasroadshow.bsky.social: ideasroadshow.com/barbarians-a...

Self-driving cars could be a disaster for climate change and road safety -- even if they work perfectly.

The Jevons paradox, a classic 19th century theory, explains why.

Me in @theverge.com 🧵

www.theverge.com/2024/9/2/242...

In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention One of Facebook's alleged marketing partners explained how it listens to users' smartphone microphones and advertises to them accordingly.

In a pitch deck to prospective customers, one of Facebook's alleged marketing partners explained how it listens to users' smartphone microphones and advertises to them accordingly.

Bluesky libera feeds personalizados Feeds personalizados eram uma promessa antiga do Bluesky.

Pra quem está chegando agora, vale dizer que uma das features mais interessantes do Bluesky é permitir a criação de feeds personalizados. O @manualdousuario.net explica como fazer isso: nucleo.jor.br/curtas/2023-...

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