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Reactions pour in after HBO drops new trailer for its upcoming Harry Potter mega-series
'Sopranos' star Dominic Chianese continues to age in reverse, starts podcast at 95 years old Australia's'Queen of Infomercials' wants'no-strings attached fun,' the O-dome is back & you're not weird? Pizza delivery man deserves a raise after walking past a black bear to deliver customer's order Nicolas Cage leads all-star cast in'Fortitude,' a WWII film about the D-Day deception campaign Florida police learn the hard way to not trust'Crooked Jess' with money to buy crack for undercover operation Dale'Grey Beard' Sanders reclaims title as oldest person to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail at 91 'I literally think this is going to be it for me': Hiker recounts grizzly bear encounter in Canada Creature dubbed'Syracuse Figure' spotted in New York: Is it Bigfoot or an elderly skinny-dipper? Taylor Sheridan's Landman faces lengthy wait as season 3 production timeline revealed Man in trouble for using robot vacuum to record wife's affair, friends with benefits lease up & hall pass wins Country music star Riley Green keeps cooking with new single'That's Just Me' from upcoming album Iranian-American: 'It's going to take boots on the ground, the Iranian people need to be armed' Sheridan Gorman's family demands accountability at hearing for accused killer Trump DOJ's trans athlete lawsuit tossed by federal judge Trump says US is prepared to strike Iran'anytime we want' Jeffries vows'serious response' to Dems who voted with GOP Jeffries vows'serious response' to Democratic defectors The new adaptation of J.K. Rowling's books stars Dominic McLaughlin, John Lithgow and Janet McTeer'Dutton Ranch' stars call Texas move'like taking matches to a gasoline party' Marc Menchaca and Juan Pablo Raba preview the high-stakes shift to Texas for Beth and Rip as the Paramount+ series premieres May 15 with two episodes, followed by weekly releases. A new full trailer is out for HBO's upcoming Harry Potter series, and reactions are rolling in. Source material: The Harry Potter books written by J.K. Rowling.
The Frontier of Data Erasure: Machine Unlearning for Large Language Models
Qu, Youyang, Ding, Ming, Sun, Nan, Thilakarathna, Kanchana, Zhu, Tianqing, Niyato, Dusit
Large Language Models (LLMs) are foundational to AI advancements, facilitating applications like predictive text generation. Nonetheless, they pose risks by potentially memorizing and disseminating sensitive, biased, or copyrighted information from their vast datasets. Machine unlearning emerges as a cutting-edge solution to mitigate these concerns, offering techniques for LLMs to selectively discard certain data. This paper reviews the latest in machine unlearning for LLMs, introducing methods for the targeted forgetting of information to address privacy, ethical, and legal challenges without necessitating full model retraining. It divides existing research into unlearning from unstructured/textual data and structured/classification data, showcasing the effectiveness of these approaches in removing specific data while maintaining model efficacy. Highlighting the practicality of machine unlearning, this analysis also points out the hurdles in preserving model integrity, avoiding excessive or insufficient data removal, and ensuring consistent outputs, underlining the role of machine unlearning in advancing responsible, ethical AI.
Sacramento pub apologizes after Antifa condemns it for showing 'Harry Potter' video game footage
WARNING: Graphic footage--Former Detroit Police Chief James Craig joined'Tucker Carlson Tonight' to call on federal authorities to crack down on agitators. A Sacramento, California pub issued a public apology after a far-left activist tied to Antifa slammed it for displaying footage from "Harry Potter" video game "Hogwarts Legacy" during work hours. The Antifa member accused Streets Pub and Grubof promoting hate towards the LGBTQ community by displaying a game affiliated with author J.K. Rowling, the creator of "Harry Potter." She has been called transphobic by LGBTQ activists for her views on biological sex. "Our sincerest apologies to those affected by this incident," the pub stated in a social media post, adding, "We will make sure to be more careful."
Review: 'Hogwarts Legacy' Has No Magic
I don't even smoke and I feel like I need a cigarette before I get this thing started. We're here to talk about Hogwarts Legacy, and to do that we need to discuss the whole mess. Pull up a chair, pour yourself some tea, wrap yourself in a blanket, scream into a pillow (or the abyss), because this one's gonna take a lot out of both of us. Hogwarts Legacy is a third-person action-RPG set in the same universe as the classic Harry Potter series of children's books. In case you need a refresher, those books, the Wizarding World setting, and the Harry Potter film franchise are all the intellectual property and brainchildren of author J. K. Rowling.
Harry Potter video game features possible transgender character named Sirona Ryan
'Gutfeld!' panelists weigh in on the'fake boycott' by trans activists of a'Harry Potter' themed video game online, accusing author J.K. Rowling of being'transphobic.' Online media personalities are buzzing about a possible trans character in the highly anticipated and highly rated game "Hogwarts Legacy." The game, which is set in the "Harry Potter" universe, has dominated pre-order sales on Steam and other game platforms in recent weeks. "Hogwarts Legacy" is scheduled to be released on Friday. But some players are complaining that a seemingly transgender character named Sirona Ryan is designed to "pivot the conversation away" from author J.K. Rowling, according to TheGamer.
Debate rages online over new 'Harry Potter' video game: 'She Who Shall Not Be Named'
J.K. Rowling worries that women are being erased due to transgender policies; reaction from Fox Nation host Tammy Bruce. Gamers, journalists and influencers argued over whether to buy a highly anticipated "Harry Potter" themed video game online. "Hogwarts Legacy," an action role-playing game set in the "Harry Potter" universe, is one of the most anticipated games of the year. Preorders for it have shot up, making it the top-selling game on download platform Steam. But some pundits asked what the political implications of buying the game would be, accusing author J.K. Rowling of being "transphobic."
Two minutes NLP -- Quick Intro to Knowledge Base Question Answering
Knowledge base question answering (KBQA) aims to answer a natural language question over a knowledge base (KB) as its knowledge source. A knowledge base (KB) is a structured database that contains a collection of facts in the form subject, relation, object, where each fact can have properties attached called qualifiers. For example, the sentence "Barack Obama got married to Michelle Obama on 3 October 1992 at Trinity United Church" can be represented by the tuple Barack Obama, Spouse, Michelle Obama, with the qualifiers start time 3 October 1992 and place of marriage Trinity United Church . Popular knowledge bases are DBpedia and WikiData. Early works on KBQA focused on simple question answering, where there's only a single fact involved.
QAnon founder may have been identified thanks to machine learning
With help from machine learning software, computer scientists may have unmasked the identity of Q, the founder of the QAnon movement. In a sprawling report published on Saturday, The New York Times shared the findings of two independent teams of forensic linguists who claim they've identified Paul Furber, a South African software developer who was one of the first to draw attention to the conspiracy theory, as the original writer behind Q. They say Arizona congressional candidate Ron Watkins also wrote under the pseudonym, first by collaborating with Furber and then later taking over the account when it eventually moved to post on his father's 8chan message board. The two teams of Swiss and French researchers used different methodologies to come to the same conclusion. The Swiss one, made up of two researchers from startup OrphAnalytics, used software to break down Q's missives into patterns of three-character sequences.
Harry Potter 'open world' video game 'due next year'
Details of the hotly-anticipated Harry Potter video game based on JK Rowling's hugely popular series of books have been leaked. The'high-end' role-playing game will let'muggles' become witches and wizards, cast spells and attend classes at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Controlling a virtual avatar, gamers will be able to roam a vast, open-world re-creation of Hogwarts and its surrounding areas, according to developers quoted by Bloomberg. The game is in development at a Warner Bros-owned studio, Avalanche Software, which has a history of developing games based on films, including Toy Story and Cars. It's reportedly due for release late in 2021 for Sony's new PlayStation 5 console, which will be released in late 2020, and Microsoft's Xbox Series X consoles.
Baidu Conquers The Next-Gen AI Race By Beating Tech Giants In A Language Test
Although conversing with artificial intelligence (AI) has been a common plot point for several science fiction movies, the real-life applications are still miles away. However, according to recent media reports, Chinese technology giant -- Baidu has started to make bold strides towards AI by beating Google and Microsoft in a competition designed to test the ability of machine in understanding human language. Baidu, which is often termed as China's Google, surpassed traditional players when it comes to AI and language learning. It has achieved the highest ever score in the General Language Understanding Evaluation (GLUE), which has been widely considered to be the benchmark for AI language comprehension skills. For most humans, the managed score is usually an 87 out of 100, however, Baidu's model, called ERNIE (Enhanced Representation through knowledge Integration has scored a 90, which is a first for any AI models.