Second Canadian scientist alleges brain illness investigation was shut down

A senior Canadian federal scientist has alleged that the government shut down an investigation into a mystery brain illness in New Brunswick that he believes may have affected 350 people. He is the second federal scientist to accuse the government of deliberately halting the investigation and to say that the caseload is higher than the […]
An Anatomy of Algorithm Aversion
29 Pages Posted: 21 Jun 2024 Date Written: June 14, 2024 Abstract People are said to show “algorithm aversion” when (1) they prefer human forecasters or decision-makers to algorithms even though (2) algorithms generally outperform people (in forecasting accuracy and/or optimal decision-making in furtherance of a specified goal). Algorithm aversion also has “softer” forms, as […]
AWS Lambda Web Adapter

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Creative workers deserve better than a choice as to who rips them off

Spotify’s relationship to artists can be kind of confusing. On the one hand, they pay a laughably low per-stream rate, as in homeopathic residues of a penny. On the other hand, the Big Three labels get a fortune from Spotify. And on the other other hand, it makes sense that rate for a stream heard […]
OpenAI, Anthropic ignoring rule that prevents bots scraping online content

AI OpenAI and Anthropic are ignoring an established rule that prevents bots scraping online content Kali Hays 2024-06-21T22:04:39Z Share icon An curved arrow pointing right. Share Facebook Icon The letter F. Facebook Email icon An envelope. It indicates the ability to send an email. Email Twitter icon A stylized bird with an open mouth, tweeting. […]
Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just ‘IT for OpenAI’

Tech Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just ‘IT for OpenAI’ Ashley Stewart 2024-03-11T23:23:32Z Share icon An curved arrow pointing right. Share Facebook Icon The letter F. Facebook Email icon An envelope. It indicates the ability to send an email. Email Twitter icon A stylized bird with an open mouth, tweeting. Twitter LinkedIn icon […]
Training AI

Training AI June 22, 2024 • Louie Mantia From John Gruber today: It’s fair for public data to be excluded on an opt-out basis, rather than included on an opt-in one […] No, no it’s not. This is a critical thing about ownership and copyright in the world. We own what we make the moment […]
Sheryl Crow: ‘Resurrecting Tupac with AI Is Hateful’

15 hours ago By Mark Savage, Music Correspondent Getty Images Sheryl Crow has something to get off her chest. Over the years, the nine-time Grammy winner has never been scared to voice her opinion. Known for the classic roots rock of songs like My Favourite Mistake and All I Wanna Do, she has also used her voice […]
HybridNeRF: Efficient Neural Rendering

CVPR 2024 (Highlight) Eyeful Tower Comparisons WorkshopOffice View 1Office 1B We compare HybridNeRF to prior work (FPS shown for 2Kx2K rendering on a single Nvidia 4090 GPU). MERF, 3DGS, and VolSDF* (our implementation using iNGP accleration primitives) do not support training models in HDR and therefore do not support exposure adjustments. Our quality is slightly […]
Andrew S. Tanenbaum Receives ACM Software System Award

Andrew S. Tanenbaum, professor emeritus of Computer Science at VU Amsterdam, receives the ACM Software System Award for MINIX, which influenced the teaching of Operating Systems principles to multiple generations of students and contributed to the design of widely used operating systems, including Linux. Tanenbaum created MINIX 1.0 in 1987 to accompany his textbook, Operating […]