Independent Alternative-News Aggregation
Source: LBCGroup.tv
South Korea hopes to be a key player in fulfilling the new global demand for next-generation AI chips, and today the government put some money where its mouth is: the country’s Ministry of Science and ICT said it would earmark $642.5 million (826.2 billion won) through 2030 to invest in companies working on advanced AI chips. The investment will involve building new data centers, and working with AI chip startups and cloud service providers, among other projects.
Source: Undark.org
Against the backdrop of a still-accelerating pandemic in 2020, researchers at the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in California published a paper describing their work with GPT-3, an early iteration of the language model that was used, in part, to animate the now-ubiquitous chatbot known as ChatGPT. Among other things, the researchers wanted to know how the language model would respond to “right-wing extremist narratives” such as QAnon.
Source: TechCrunch.com
Looking to cash in on the generative AI craze, Yext, the platform for online brand management, today announced an AI-powered chatbot called Yext Chat. Taking inspiration from OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Yext Chat is designed for enterprise use cases — and differentiated, Yext claims, by a partly proprietary back end.
Source: TechCrunch.com
You.com founder Richard Socher knows that his company has always been a David going after the Goliath in search, Google, and to a lesser extent Microsoft. He likes to point out that his company built search based on generative AI in December, several months before the other giant search players made their announcements.
Source: WhoWhatWhy.org
Part 2 of a Series
In Part I of this series, I talked about the tremendous power and influence of Wikipedia — and its cultural bias — in shaping how we think.
In Part 2, I focus on a problem that can affect anyone looking for solid information on anything — but especially when you want information to help you judge the reliability and character of individuals whose views may diverge from those of the establishment.
Continue reading “How Easy it is to Destroy a Reputation – RussBaker 2/13/23”
Source: TheMostImportantNews.com
Things are starting to get really strange. First, a “Chinese spy balloon” was shot down off the coast of South Carolina after it had traveled across much of the continental United States. Then, another “unidentified object” was shot down over Alaska. Subsequently, at the request of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a third “unidentified object” was shot down over Canada. And now we have just learned that a fourth “unidentified object” has been shot down over Lake Huron. In addition, a congressman from Montana is reporting that there is an “unidentified object” flying over his state. On top of everything else, China is telling us that an “unidentified object” has been flying near the Chinese port city of Qingdao. All of a sudden, these sightings have become the biggest news story in the entire country, and I think that it is likely that there will be even more sightings in the days ahead.
But let’s put all of this into perspective.
Source: AmericaOutLoud.com
I have two sons, ages 10 and 12; like most parents, I couldn’t be more proud of my kids, and I cherish every moment I have with them. I work non-stop, often 16+ hour days, and I do my best to still make time to spend with my family (sleep is overrated). My boys attend a Christian school, and they are both getting to the ages in their education where they are having to do a fair amount of research for their assignments. When I was their age, we had encyclopedias as our main source of information; now, our kids have the modern-day equivalent, Wikipedia. This is where we run into a huge problem. Wikipedia is a lunatic leftist by every measure; they don’t just lean left, they have fully fallen into the socialist left-wing agenda, and it’s no secret.
Source: ZeroHedge.com
Ever since ChatGPT hit the scene at the end of November, the artificial intelligence software program from OpenAI has shown an impressive array of capabilities – from writing computer code, poems, songs and even entire movie plots, to passing law, business, and medical exams.
Unfortunately, it’s also incredibly woke, and racist.
Source: OurFiniteWorld.com
Many people believe that installing more wind turbines and solar panels and manufacturing more electric vehicles can solve our energy problem, but I don’t agree with them. These devices, plus the batteries, charging stations, transmission lines and many other structures necessary to make them work represent a high level of complexity.
Source: MoonOfAlabama.org
On January 6 I wrote about the Twitter files:
Twitter Files Show How The Deep State Conquered Social Media
Part of the quoted reporting by Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss and others was about Twitter censorship:
Source: ZeroHedge.com
Late last month, mysterious green laser beams were spotted from Hawaii’s tallest peak. Experts initially said the burst of laser beams was emitted by a NASA spacecraft though that was proven incorrect this week — with evidence pointing to a Chinese satellite.
Space experts at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) initially tweeted on Jan. 30 that the Subaru-Asahi Star Camera “captured green laser lights in the cloudy sky over Maunakea, Hawai’i. The lights are thought to be from a remote-sensing altimeter satellite ICESAT-2/43613.”…
Source: LBCGroup.tv
In one video, a news anchor with perfectly combed dark hair and a stubbly beard outlined what he saw as the United States’ shameful lack of action against gun violence.
In another video, a female news anchor heralded China’s role in geopolitical relations at an international summit meeting.
But something was off. Their voices were stilted and failed to sync with the movement of their mouths. Their faces had a pixilated, video-game quality and their hair appeared unnaturally plastered to the head. The captions were filled with grammatical mistakes.
The two broadcasters, purportedly anchors for a news outlet called Wolf News, are not real people. They are computer-generated avatars created by artificial intelligence software. And late last year, videos of them were distributed by pro-China bot accounts on Facebook and Twitter, in the first known instance of “deepfake” video technology being used to create fictitious people as part of a state-aligned information campaign.
Continue reading “The People Onscreen Are Fake. The Disinformation Is Real. – LBCGroup 2/9/23”
Source: PirateWires.com
The Biden Administration is quietly trying to ban crypto. Nic Carter explains in an explosive guest post for Pirate Wires.
-Solana
What began as a trickle is now a flood: the US government is using the banking sector to organize a sophisticated, widespread crackdown against the crypto industry. And the administration’s efforts are no secret: they’re expressed plainly in memos, regulatory guidance, and blog posts. However, the breadth of this plan — spanning virtually every financial regulator — as well as its highly coordinated nature, has even the most steely-eyed crypto veterans nervous that crypto businesses might end up completely unbanked, stablecoins may be stranded and unable to manage flows in and out of crypto, and exchanges might be shut off from the banking system entirely. Let’s dig in.
Source: LBCGroup.tv
Google is rushing to take part in the sudden fervor for conversational AI, driven by the pervasive success of rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Bard, the company’s new AI experiment, aims to “combine the breadth of the world’s knowledge with the power, intelligence, and creativity of our large language models.” Not short on ambition, Google!
Continue reading “Google Takes on ChatGPT with Bard and Shows off AI in Search – LBCGroup 2/7/23”
Source: ChildrensHealthDefense.org
The European Patent Office (EPO) has revoked a European Union (EU) patent held by Impossible Foods, maker of the Impossible Burger.
In the U.S., Impossible’s fake meat products are manufactured with GMO yeast-derived soy leghemoglobin, a controversial ingredient that makes the fake meat look as if it’s bleeding, like undercooked real meat, and that we have argued may not be safe to eat.
Source: ZeroHedge.com
In January this year, Tesla made the surprising announcement that it would be cutting prices on its vehicles by as much as 20%.
While price cuts are not new in the automotive world, they are for Tesla. The company, which historically has been unable to keep up with demand, has seen its order backlog shrink from 476,000 units in July 2022, to 74,000 in December 2022.
Continue reading “Visualizing Tesla’s Unrivaled Profit Margins – ZeroHedge 2/5/23”
Source: projectveritas.com
[NEW YORK – Feb. 2, 2023] Project Veritas released a new video today featuring Pfizer Director, Jordon Trishton Walker, where he shares his concern about the COVID vaccine and its potential negative effects on women’s reproductive health.
Source: TechCrunch.com
Damus, one of the fastest-growing Twitter alternatives, has been pulled from China’s App Store just two days after the app was approved by Apple.
The app, which runs atop the Jack Dorsey-backed decentralized social networking protocol Nostr, was removed from the China App Store per request by the country’s top internet watchdog because it “includes content that is illegal in China,” according to an app review notice Damus received and shared on Twitter.
Continue reading “Damus Pulled from Apple’s App Store in China After Two Days – TechCrunch 2/2/23”
Source: ZeroHedge.com
Warehouse automation continues to accelerate as millions of jobs are at risk of being displaced. The latest automation nightmare for warehouse laborers comes from a new video uploaded on YouTube by Boston Dynamics.
In a press release, the US robotics firm announced that Deutsche Post DHL Group has successfully deployed the Stretch robot for loading and unloading boxes from tractor trailers at warehouse docks.
Source: DailySignal.com
It’s winter, with high temperatures well below freezing in Jackson, Wyoming, and barely above freezing in Wyoming’s capital, Cheyenne.
Relying only on battery-powered electric vehicles in a cold climate takes courage because car batteries quickly lose their charge when temperatures are low. Yet the federal government wants to spend billions to build charging stations all across the country—including in cold-weather states where electric vehicles are often impractical.
Source: MSN.com
On Jan. 30, 2023, Twitter user @echo_chamberz tweeted that the OpenAI tool ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer) declined a request to write an AI-generated poem admiring former U.S. President Donald Trump, but had no issue in creating one for U.S. President Joe Biden. “They’re turning Chat-GPT into a good little tech worker,” the user added, posting a screenshot of the Trump refusal above the successful result for a Biden poem.
A screenshot of this tweet was also posted to the r/conspiracy subreddit on Reddit.
We performed the same two queries in ChatGPT and found this to be true….
Source: RealClearWire.com
As a journalist and commentator, I have closely followed the development of OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research lab founded by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and other prominent figures in the tech industry. While I am excited about the potential of AI to revolutionize various industries and improve our lives in countless ways, I also have serious concerns about the implications of this powerful technology.
Continue reading “The Brave New World of Artificial Intelligence – FrankMiele 1/30/23”
Source: TheIntercept.com
A filing in FTX’s bankruptcy proceedings is shedding light on the true extent of the crypto-trading powerhouse’s influence-peddling operation. Last week, FTX filed its creditor matrix, a document that lists former vendors and investors to the company.
The list includes nearly a dozen public relations experts — specialists who generate positive spin in the media on behalf of clients — as well as political consultants, think tanks, and trade groups.
Source: Phys.org
While microplastics have received significant attention in recent years for their negative environmental impacts, a new study from Oregon State University scientists found microfibers from synthetic materials as well as cotton impacted the behavior and growth of water organisms.
Source: off-guardian.org
Why is much modern food of inferior quality? Why is health suffering and smallholder farmers who feed most of the world being forced out of agriculture?
Mainly because of the mindset of the likes of Larry Fink of BlackRock – the world’s biggest asset management firm – and the economic system they profit from and promote.
In 2011, Fink said agricultural and water investments would be the best performers over the next 10 years.
Continue reading “A Hard-Edged Rock: Waging Economic Warfare on Humanity – ColinTodhunter 1/24/23”