What kind of food do they cook?
( Didn't RTFA. ;-) )

It still baffles me that RottenTomatoes ever became regarded with any degree of respectability. Their whole system is a statistical nightmare. I remember shortly after the site came out, reading reviews that included both positive and negative features, rendered into binary classification as either "fresh" or "rotten" despite what the reviewer said. Even overall positive reviews being rated as "rotten", for example, or vice versa. It's a shit show. (Presumably the site rose to prominence simply because it somehow outcompeted other review aggregators)

From link in TFA: https://equal-earth.com/equal-...

"Straight parallels that make it easier to compare how far north or south places are from the equator."

? Easier than what? Show me a (popular) projection that *doesn't* have straight parallels. Mercator, Roberts, Peters, all have them.

Seriously? They mention Xbox Game Pass but no mention of Sony's own subscription model, Playstation Plus? what the heck?

This. Nashvillian here: Easy access to politicians stupid / greedy enough to give this a green light. To an inordinate degree, Tennessee ends up being at the center of "stupid tech policy" news on a national level.

Mod parent +1, Funny!

This is unclear to me from TFA: Did they specifically prompt it with any directives about preferring self-preservation?

Or is the self-preservation drive (i.e. resisting shutdown) just an ordinary feature baked in / emergent in the model after training on tons of text?

That was 3 pages of scrolling, /. Make 'em shorter, please.

I'm no behaviorist, but when I'm most engaged in a video is when I'm least likely to tolerate an ad. This will cause me to
a) hate the product
b) mash the skip button.

Case in point: Liberty Mutual

In the report: "Commenters cited several examples of AI tools trained on licensed or public domain content, such as Adobe’s Firefly (an image generator), Boomy (a music generator), Getty Images’ AI image generator, and Stability AI’s Stable Audio (a music generator)."

Often only the infringers get mentioned.

I know they say higher rate limits, I but can't help worrying if this will be like Google did with Colab Pro, where you have to pay more to keep the capabilities you were using, and they nerf the pay tier you were using?

> “Time and again, research shows that algorithmic systems for ‘predicting’ crime are inherently flawed."

Sure, which is why we can use this to justify the need for MORE surveillance, more data logging, more facial recognition, etc -- to improve the data and refine the algorithm! /s

--Fight Club

Does /. have a subscription plan that provides Mullenwang-free browsing? I'm just sick of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...