2026-01-03
Opinions on “superintelligence” can reasonably differ. (Personally I think it's a terrible framing that obscures more than it clarifies.) But I still struggle to comprehend why anyone would think LLMs are the route to it. [embedded post]
Financial Times
Yann LeCun admits that Llama 4's “results were fudged a little bit”, and that the team used different models for different benchmarks to give better results
The interview took place in a great restaurant in Paris: Yannick Alléno's Pavyllon. … Bluesky: Rob Delaney / @robdelaney : 💩💩💩 [embedded post] SE Gyges / @segyges : this puts a bun...
2020-05-08
I shared surveillance-dystopia worries about Google's planned high-tech neighborhood in Toronto, but was curious about how it would turn out. Pandemic has now scuttled the project. https://www.nytimes.com/...
BetaKit
Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs says it will no longer pursue its smart city project at Quayside in Toronto due to “unprecedented economic uncertainty”
Sidewalk Labs has announced it will no longer pursue its project at Quayside in Toronto. The company noted the decision was due to the current …
2018-04-09
China is developing a system to quantify how good of a person you are, boiled down to a single number. Your privileges in society will be determined by your social credit. http://foreignpolicy.com/...
Foreign Policy
Life in Rongcheng offers inside preview of China's social credit system, which mixes credit scores with monitoring data of citizens, launches nationally in 2020
2018-01-29
Best part of this NYT article on online bots is the snippets of “sample code” they use to illustrate the different types. http://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
How Devumi uses its 3.5M+ automated Twitter accounts, sometimes based on stolen social identities, to sell followers and retweets to 200K+ customers
Everyone wants to be popular online. — Some even pay for it. — Inside social media's black market.
2018-01-28
Best part of this NYT article on online bots is the snippets of “sample code” they use to illustrate the different types. http://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
How Devumi uses its 3.5M+ automated Twitter accounts, sometimes based on stolen social identities, to sell followers and retweets to 200K+ customers
Everyone wants to be popular online. — Some even pay for it. — Inside social media's black market.