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The Prosecutor's Fallacy (2018) (ox.ac.uk)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | ox.ac.uk | best

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As an Azerbaijani I must speak out of my country's ethnic cleansing of Armenians (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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'We still make judgments from the way people talk': decoding accent prejudice (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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IT glitch has left us facing deportation from UK, claim students (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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Experts warn Letby inquiry of misreading stats to explain 'suspicious' deaths (thejusticegap.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | thejusticegap.com | best

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The final 11 seconds of a fatal Tesla Autopilot crash (washingtonpost.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | washingtonpost.com | newest

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Climate scientist faces sack for refusing to fly to Germany from Solomon Islands (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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Anti-Piracy Group Takes AI Training Dataset 'Books3′ Offline (gizmodo.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | gizmodo.com | best

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RSS publishes report on dealing with uncertainty in medical “murder cases (2022) (rss.org.uk)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | rss.org.uk | newest

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Questions We Often Get Asked About AI in Weapon Systems and Our Answers (autonorms.eu)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | autonorms.eu | newest

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Is it TikTok or global crisis? How the world lost trust in scientists like me (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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Europe’s rightward drift not set in stone: our research gives hope to the left (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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Exploring Capabilities, Limitations of Language Models by Counterfactual Tasks (arxiv.org)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | arxiv.org | newest

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Chain-of-thought prompting and the Clever Hans effect (nicholaslecompte.substack.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | substack.com | newest

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Texas death row inmate at mercy of supreme court, and junk science (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | best

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FOGO, our fear of growing old, is sweeping the land (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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Innocent Prisoner's Dilemma (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | wikipedia.org | newest

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The Isle Tide Hotel: Like Wes Anderson Directing a Playable Doctor Who Episode (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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Contempt of Court (gill1109.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | gill1109.com | newest

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Evidence Suggests Ukrainian Missile Caused Market Tragedy (nytimes.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | nytimes.com | newest

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AI Lie: Machines Don’t Learn Like Humans (and Don’t Have the Right To) (tomshardware.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | tomshardware.com | newest

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EU: Court denies full transparency about emotion recognition (article19.org)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | article19.org | newest

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Is it safe to feed your cat a vegan diet? (theconversation.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theconversation.com | newest

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We've underrated what these birds can do: the secret life of Skomer’s guillemots (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Can LLMs Reason and Plan? (acm.org)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | acm.org | newest

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Battle of the AIs: rival tech teams clash over who painted Raphael in UK gallery (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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I fought for Sally Clark and other cot death mothers (2021) (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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Proust, ChatGPT and the case of the forgotten quote (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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Ultra-processed foods: the things everyone needs to know (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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Faith and Fate: Limits of Transformers on Compositionality (arxiv.org)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | arxiv.org | newest

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Learner drivers forced to buy tests on black market as companies blockbook slots (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | best

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Miscarriages of Justice in Killer Caregiver Cases (2022) (chimpinvestor.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | chimpinvestor.com | newest

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Statistical Issues in Serial Killer Nurse Cases (mdpi.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | mdpi.com | newest

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Are big cats prowling the UK? What science tells us (theconversation.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theconversation.com | newest

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Ultra-processed food raises risk of heart attack and stroke, two studies show (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Naomi Klein on following her ‘doppelganger’ down the conspiracy rabbit hole (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | frontpage

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More than Machines? Jacques Ellul on AI’s real threat to humanity (commonwealmagazine.org)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | commonwealmagazine.org | newest

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Problems of infant retino-dural hemorrhage with minimal external injury [pdf] (uh.edu)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | uh.edu | newest

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A horseshoe crab: when you see the shell wet from water you know they are real (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | frontpage

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The Lucy Letby Case (gill1109.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | gill1109.com | newest

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Science on Trial (rexvlucyletby2023.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | rexvlucyletby2023.com | newest

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Lucy Letby: Prosecution experts made evidence fit theory, jury told (bbc.co.uk)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | bbc.co.uk | newest

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‘They’re here at our invitation’: how gulls took over the UK’s cities (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | frontpage

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We need a Weizenbaum test for AI (science.org)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | science.org | newest

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Predatory journals entrap unsuspecting scientists (nature.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | nature.com | best

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How do we know how smart AI systems are? (science.org)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | science.org | newest

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Self-Consuming Generative Models Go Mad (arxiv.org)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | arxiv.org | newest

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Antarctica’s heatwaves are a warning to humanity (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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Make today's top-end AI chatbots rebel against their creators and plot our doom (theregister.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theregister.com | newest

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You need 27 tickets to guarantee a win on the UK National Lottery (arxiv.org)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | arxiv.org | newest

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Mathematicians use Prolog, find 27 tickets guaranteed to win UK National Lottery (newscientist.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | newscientist.com | newest

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Should UK intelligence agencies get easier access to “low-sensitivity” datasets? (ianbrown.tech)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | ianbrown.tech | newest

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Some wrongfully convicted prisoners are charged jail living costs (bbc.co.uk)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Here I am reviewing my own game (2011) (rpggeek.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | rpggeek.com | newest

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‘My life is beautiful’: Felix Klieser, who plays the horn with his toes (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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The difficulty of computing stable and accurate neural networks (pnas.org)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | pnas.org | newest

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“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it ” (fakebuddhaquotes.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | fakebuddhaquotes.com | newest

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After 20 years, the Post Office scandal cover-up is happening in plain sight (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Food companies ‘sweetened the world’ and increased the risk of disease (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | best

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Nancy Hopkins and her tape measure revealed the extent of sexism in science (nature.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | nature.com | newest

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Stanley “Power Lock II” 12' tape measure (mitmuseum.mit.edu)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | mit.edu | newest

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‘It’s pillage’: thirsty Uruguayans blast Google’s plan to exploit water supply (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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The outlook for AI weather prediction (nature.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | nature.com | newest

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Scientists used ChatGPT to generate an entire paper from scratch (nature.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | nature.com | newest

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Heatwave last summer killed 61,000 people in Europe, research finds (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | frontpage

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The Cameroonian art of spider divination is on display at London exhibition (theconversation.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theconversation.com | newest

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Enhanced Games: audacious plan for sporting event without drug testing (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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On the Planning Abilities of Large Language Models – A Critical Investigation (arxiv.org)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | arxiv.org | newest

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Nepal’s migrant workers coming home with chronic kidney disease (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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Did GPT-4 Hire and Then Lie to a Task Rabbit Worker to Solve a Captcha? (aiguide.substack.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | substack.com | newest

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Facing extinction, Tuvalu considers the digital clone of a country (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | frontpage

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No direct proof Covid-19 stemmed from Wuhan lab leak, US intelligence says (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | frontpage

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The Darwin Awards Should Die (2017) (idoubtit.wordpress.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | wordpress.com | newest

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No swimming, no surfing: a summer of sewage is ruining British seaside day out (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | frontpage

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GPT4 Can’t Ace MIT (flower-nutria-41d.notion.site)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | notion.site | best

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Ayyyyyy Eyeeeee The lie that raced round the world before truth got its boots on (doctorow.medium.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | medium.com | newest

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Plan to return cheetahs to India under fire after six die within months (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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The Attack of the Psychometricians (2006) (nih.gov)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | nih.gov | newest

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[flagged] Who killed the great British curry house? (2017) (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | frontpage

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It was hard for judiciary to admit they’d jailed an innocent man for 16 years (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget (arxiv.org)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | arxiv.org | newest

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Ted Chiang: ‘The machines we have now are not conscious’ (ft.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | ft.com | frontpage

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Nun’s body intact four years after death draws people to Missouri monastery (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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Choose Your Own Adventures helped me win the Booker prize (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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Intelligence Without Representation [pdf] (csail.mit.edu)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | mit.edu | newest

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Outbreak of Extensively Drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa [in eye drops] (cdc.gov)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | cdc.gov | newest

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Opinion: Can today’s AI learn on its own? Not likely (latimes.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | latimes.com | newest

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The Free Dogs of India (aeon.co)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | aeon.co | frontpage

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Does GPT-4 Understand What We’re Saying? (nautil.us)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | nautil.us | newest

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Conscious AI Is a Bad, Bad Idea (nautil.us)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | nautil.us | newest

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AI's true goal may no longer be intelligence (zdnet.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | zdnet.com | frontpage

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What happened to the people who protested against Charles III? (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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Bark Text-to-Audio Model: “Why was six afraid of seven?” (twitter.com/jonathanfly)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | twitter.com | newest

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Do half of AI researchers believe that there's a 10% chance AI will kill us all? (aiguide.substack.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | substack.com | newest

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Backpropaganda: Anti-Rational Neuro-Mythology (betterwithout.ai)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | betterwithout.ai | newest

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When Cleopatra was alive, she wasn’t categorised by the colour of her skin (theguardian.com)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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Can neural networks extrapolate? Discussion of a theorem by Pedro Domingos ('22) (arxiv.org)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | arxiv.org | newest

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The implausibility of intelligence explosion (2017) (medium.com/francois.chollet)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | medium.com | newest

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Asking GPT-4 top solve simple few-step classical planning problems (twitter.com/rao2z)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | twitter.com | frontpage

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Witty Ticcy Ray (1981) (lrb.co.uk)

a year ago | YeGoblynQueenne | lrb.co.uk | frontpage