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Is "Six Seven" Really Brain Rot?
Is "Six Seven" Really Brain Rot? The viral phrase is easy to dismiss, but its ubiquity suggests something crucial about human nature. Recently, my wife was texting with a friend who lives in Singapore. The news from the other side of the world turned out to be that kids there had discovered "six seven." On Halloween, our friend reported, a boy with a handmade "six seven" jersey had earned applause as he made his way through her neighborhood--a place that's a long way from Sixty-seventh Street in Philadelphia, which the rapper Skrilla may have been referencing in his song "Doot Doot (6 7)," which came out last December.
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GREG GUTFELD: Bumble's 'white flag' shows women 'found it too hard' to make the first move in online dating
'Gutfeld!' panelists weigh in on dating app Bumble's Opening Moves feature where women won't have to make the first move amid the app's plunging stock price. The birds and the bees bring Bumble to its knees. I refer to the Bumble dating app, which launched a decade ago, described as the feminist version of Tinder -- but maybe it should have been called Hinder, because that's what these feminists did to women trying to meet men. Bumble's big innovation was that only female users could make the first move to contact a potential match. But that was Bumble's brand: The women get to ask, and the men don't.
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Will AI ever outsmart humans? In some ways, it already has
The rapid development of artificial intelligence has led some to fear dangerous scenarios where the technology is smarter than the humans who created it, but some experts believe AI has already reached that point in certain ways. "If you define it as performing intellectual but repetitive and bounded problems, they already are smarter. The best chess players and GO players are machines. And soon we can train them to do all tasks like that. Examples include legal analysis, simple writing and creating pictures on demand," Phil Siegel, the founder of the Center for Advanced Preparedness and Threat Response Simulation, told Fox News Digital.
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Is It All Just Hype? Why AI Voiceover Might Just Be a Nothingburger After All - J. Michael Collins
The number of voice actors in a rabid panic over AI in the industry is reaching a head, with social media brimming with daily posts on the topic, despite very little real world evidence of synthetic voices impacting the bottom line of working pros, or even amateurs for that matter. There's a supposition among the masses that because the technology is improving, its ascension is inevitable, and that by definition it will supplant human voice actors to a highly disruptive degree. It's easy to get caught up in the terror, but worst-case scenarios….heck, Now, there's no question that numerous companies and platforms want AI voiceover to be an Earth-shattering thing. And, inevitably, we are going to start seeing even well-known casting platforms offer AI voices against or alongside their human talent. Many voice actors are busy creating their own voice clones which they expect to make available through their websites, casting platforms, or through the platforms of the companies creating these artificial voices for them.
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Why Artificial Intelligence Has Become Invaluable for Developers
While it might sound a bit reductive, the essential skill of real estate development can often be boiled down to one word: decisions. A project's developer might have more than 200 vendors to communicate with regarding pricing, timing, materials and a slew of other factors, juggling spreadsheets and details that could throw a project off its timeline and budget if this information isn't easy to source and reference when making project decisions. Keeping track of this multitude is the first step on the road to success for any developer. With the evolution of modern technology -- specifically, artificial intelligence (AI) -- developers are finding that the drudgery of tracking and inputting thousands of essential details is going the way of the rotary phone. The adoption of AI by the commercial real estate (CRE) industry was greatly accelerated by the uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, as commercial real estate stakeholders embraced AI's ability to bring solutions into a clearer view.
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Teaching Ourselves About Humanity Through Artificial Intelligence - YR Media
Snigdha Roy is a teen hacker who is convinced that AI can teach us about our humanity. The high school student says with the right dose of curiosity, we can learn about AI systems and use them for social good. Working with notable institutions like the Stanford Natural Language Processing (NLP) group, she built an AI therapist and technology aimed at understanding how the pandemic has changed our emotions. Who runs the largest high school hackathon in the Northeast?! Yeah, that's also Snigdha. Not to mention, she was a selected scholar at Kode With Klossy and is the former CEO of Greening Forward.
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All models are wrong, but some are harmful
A key challenge in building AI systems is creating a mathematical definition of the subject of interest. This causes a problem because no mathematical definition can capture the full scope of the natural world. This is further complicated by the fact that these definitions are created by teams of AI developers and will inevitably reflect the attitudes of these developers. This issue affects all AI systems. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't build any models for anything. A model can bring a benefit, even if it isn't perfect.
Driving as Proxy for Human Nature
Introduction Is man born free but everywhere is in chains, as Rousseau would claim? Or is life nasty, brutish, and short, as Hobbes would do the same? These questions come down to views on human nature. Thomas Sowell contends there is a conflict of views between the unconstrained and constrained visions. Here, we have driving as a sort of natural experiment to test human nature.