Common drug tests used widely in the US lead to tens of thousands of wrongful arrests a year, experts say. One state is fighting back. cnn.it/4crNfK0

>LLMs hallucinate >math proves this is inextricable to the technology >math then proves all the methods to mitigate this make it worse >people decide that modeling the real world with LLMs is more accurate than actually observing the real world YOU ARE HERE >people in power make

sam altman watching ChatGPT hallucinate live on stage is the funniest thing i've seen all week the CEO of OpenAI, on stage, in front of everyone, watching his own AI just make things up in real time and his face says it all this is the guy telling us AGI is coming soon btw

I’m not going to name the person who put these flyers up, but I’m proud of them for showing the neighborhood how crazy the 1660 LaSalle condo association NIMBYs are

i accidentally discovered one of the coolest features on the internet the Wikipedia app has a "nearby" feature that shows wikipedia articles around your location! i opened it and instantly fell into a rabbit hole of random places, local history and weird things around me try

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Markets are delusional we’ve already lost: - ~30% of fertilizers - ~20% of LNG - ~14% of oil - ~30% of helium Any one of these on its own would be enough to trigger a crisis. Together, they form a systemic shock that risks pulling the global economy into a serious recession.

Princeton researchers asked 2,012 people to pick a book. Some used a search engine. Some used a chatbot powered by a frontier AI model. Nobody was told that one out of every five books had been secretly marked as "sponsored." When the search engine placed sponsored books at the

No one created the land they live on. And yet they've been granted the ability to exclude others from it, backed by state force. All we ask is they pay the rest of society for the privilege to use this scarce resource, which itself derives much of its value from society around it

The new Prime Minister of Hungary is a center right politician whom the majority of Hungarians recognized that whether they fully agree with or not — was the better choice than the autocratic fascist. Hmm, must be nice.

"The researchers found a positive association between feeling bothered by the news article and expressing disbelief in the allegations. Participants who experienced higher levels of mental discomfort were more likely to claim the accusations were fabricated. This suggests that

bringing this back

•The U.S. Senate may hold a floor vote TODAY which would overturn a 20-year moratorium on sulfide-ore copper mining on 225,000 acres of Superior National Forest land in the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) Wilderness in northern Minnesota. The Boundary Waters

The Atlantic journalist, Sarah Fitzpatrick, who wrote the story on FBI Director Kash Patel and his alleged erratic behavior, paranoia, often being MIA, and excessive drinking, after he threatened to sue her: “I stand by every word of this reporting.” 🔥

The New York Times: In the months leading up to the midterm elections, hundreds of A.I.-generated pro-Trump influencer accounts have emerged on social media

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston

Truck Mounted Attenuators are engineered to get rear-ended. There is a human sitting inside. A TMA is a $50,000 sacrificial vehicle. The entire back end is an aluminum honeycomb cartridge that crushes in a controlled sequence, absorbing the kinetic energy of a 4,000-pound

Can water intake prevent Alzheimer’s disease? No. This is fully AI-generated… but the data below could easily pass as real. The new ChatGPT image model is truly impressive, but I think it poses a real risk for scientific integrity in future. For example, I could just generate

I would argue that a fundamentally bad person who tried to overthrow our democratic system and is running the biggest corruption racket in the history of the presidency should be opposed on all counts not just “when appropriate.” So call me a Nicene Creed Never Trumper i guess.