Vox

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Stephen Hawking has said , “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” They are being developed to improve drone targeting and detect missiles. In order to be very good at the narrow task of text prediction, an AI system will eventually develop abilities that are not narrow at all.

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The Verge

JANUARY 7, 2021

As for what or who is responsible for so many new users interested in trying the platform, which is operated by the nonprofit Signal Foundation, there are two likely culprits: Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Signal competitor WhatsApp. We are working with carriers to resolve this as quickly as possible. Hang in there.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The US lags behind countries such as South Korea, Japan, and Switzerland when it comes to typical download speeds. Whether or not private companies want to undertake every connection project themselves, they don’t want competitors to, either, because they’re afraid models would develop that would threaten their business.

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Vox

JANUARY 1, 2024

A better approach than using polling is to reference some of the forecasting models political scientists have developed for predicting elections in advance. Disclosure: I worked on the issue on and off from 2012 to 2017 at animal welfare nonprofits prior to joining Vox.)

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