FundMECFS

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[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 5 points 11 hours ago

This is a video not a news article.

China is hosting the World AI conference in Shanghai this weekend, an annual event aimed at showcasing Beijing's leadership in the evolution of technology. At the opening event Saturday, the country's premier said China would be setting up a new organisation for cooperation on AI governance - again warning the risks of the technology must be considered as much as its benefits

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[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 1 points 12 hours ago

Similar one in Fort Wayne, Indiana

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Not very high priority to remove though. Nothing identfiable in the gran scheme I guess.

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 4 points 1 day ago

Do you have a link to any of these :)

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 18 points 1 day ago

Happy cake day

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

“on the brink of passing” (the article text) is a bit of an exaggeration. The latest swiss news I can find is that the government is currently doing a consultation.

https://www.news.admin.ch/fr/nsb?id=103968

Anycase, hope this doesn’t pass seems pretty awful. But even if it does I think we’re likely to see a referendum and all that, so could take a while.

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Are… Mosquitoes… edible?

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Based. I actually shared that exact link on another post a couple days ago! How random 😂
https://quokk.au/post/131674

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Well I think most of his life is a bit much. I think specifically it’s his experience when he fought in Catalonia for the anti-authoritarian Marxists (POUM) having the Stalin backed communists betray POUM and kill and imprison his comrades.

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

This is like Orwell who devoted his life as a (anarchist leaning) democratic socialist to fight authoritarianism.

And now authoritarian things are called “Orwellian”.

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 16 points 4 days ago

Sometimes, actions speak louder than words.

Or in the case of car bombs, blow louder than words.

 

Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and long COVID affect large numbers of people, and constitute a substantial burden to the U.S. and global economies. The article by Eckey et al., in this issue of PNAS (1), adds to the growing evidence that the two illnesses have much in common. Moreover, the illnesses may represent just two examples of an even larger, recently recognized class of illness: post-acute infection syndromes (PAIS) (2).

 
 
 

A report from French newspaper Le Monde paints a vivid portrait of the city’s evolving cycling culture, revealing a surge in two-wheeled activity that has captured the attention of cyclists and urban enthusiasts alike.

EDIT: This article is half a year old. Didn’t realise when posting sorry.

 
 

cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/post/119938

The appearance of thousands of formulaic biomedical studies has been linked to the rise of text-generating AI tools.

Data from five large open-access health databases are being used to generate thousands of poor-quality, formulaic papers, an analysis has found. Its authors say that the surge in publications could indicate the exploitation of these databases by people using large language models(LLMs) to mass-produce scholarly articles, or even by paper mills — companies that churn out papers to order.

 

The appearance of thousands of formulaic biomedical studies has been linked to the rise of text-generating AI tools.

Data from five large open-access health databases are being used to generate thousands of poor-quality, formulaic papers, an analysis has found. Its authors say that the surge in publications could indicate the exploitation of these databases by people using large language models(LLMs) to mass-produce scholarly articles, or even by paper mills — companies that churn out papers to order.

 

Researchers have been sneaking secret messages into their papers in an effort to trick artificial intelligence (AI) tools into giving them a positive peer-review report.

The Tokyo-based news magazine Nikkei Asiareported last week on the practice, which had previously been discussed on social media. Nature has independently found 18 preprint studies containing such hidden messages, which are usually included as white text and sometimes in an extremely small font that would be invisible to a human but could be picked up as an instruction to an AI reviewer.

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