Here’s a nice house I saw while walking the dog.
Russia plans to put a nuclear reactor on the Moon – with China’s help https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/06/russia_nuclear_reactor_moon/
Medieval historian Dr Eleanor Janega hilariously and informatively refutes a Twitter troll’s bonehead claims about women’s sexuality in history. going-medieval.com/2024/03/0…
I asked ChatGPT to generate illustrations for a few books, TV shows and movies, including “The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet,” “MAS*H,” “Die Hard,” and more. Here’s what ChatGPT came up with.
Hours before the deadline, I just pledged to back the Kickstarter for Tapestry from Iconfactory. I said I wasn’t going to do it, but then I figured why not. It looks like a very appealing and intriguing project, if it comes to fruition.
Here’s something I saw while walking the dog.
Millions of people — including me — were locked out of Facebook, Threads and Instagram this morning due to a password-reset glitch. (The Register).
Until reading this article, I thought I might have been banned for good. I wasn’t sure if I was upset about that or happy.
Cory Doctorow at Pluralistic: “You can’t shop your way out of a monopoly. Any election where you vote with your wallet will be won by the people with the thickest wallets.”
Trusting one company to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,” was a failure.
Anthropic’s Claude 3 gave a response that made it appear as if it knew when researchers were testing it (VentureBeat).
There. I fixed the headline.
Benj Edwards at Ars Technica analyzes Anthropic’s announcement of the latest version of its Claude AI, which for the first time beats GPT-4 on benchmarks and demonstrates “near-human” capabilities in some areas (or so Anthropic says).
Benchmarks don’t necessarily show how effective the tool is, Edwards notes.
Also:
It’s probably true that Opus is “near-human” on some specific benchmarks, but that doesn’t mean that Opus is a general intelligence like a human (consider that pocket calculators are superhuman at math).