Bernhard Hack, born at 333 ppm CO2

Manager Digital Ecosystems | ILRI | Views are mine not my employer's

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

This is brilliant. They nailed almost every single influencer archetype. God help us all 💀🤦‍♂️

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Mark Zuckerberg has told investors how he plans to make back the tens of billions he's spending on AI: he's going to use it to make advertisements that can bypass our critical faculties and convince anyone to buy anything.

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[Bernhard Hack, born at 333 ppm CO2 @benhack]

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[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

This Atlantic investigation just hit and my eyes are popping at the alleged lawbreaking by Facebook.
“Eventually, the team at Meta got permission from ‘MZ’ — an apparent reference to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg—to download and use the data set.” 1/2

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Paula Le Dieu is one of the smartest, most committed archivists I know. Many years ago, she shared a neat analogy with me about the paywalling of public archives.

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[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

This 2018 tweet has been going constantly viral for the past week..it’s almost as if people have suddenly realised there’s some sort of connection 🧐

[Saturday Night Live @nbcsnl]

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[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen.

IT'S A COUP.

It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next.
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[Bernhard Hack, born at 333 ppm CO2 @benhack]

Ezra Klein on flooding the zone https://t.co/I3ozR05DwF

[terminally onλine εngineer @tekbog]

i cant believe ChatGPT lost its job to AI

[Ian Dunt @IanDunt]

An extraordinary moment. Guardian to stop publishing on Twitter https://t.co/T0B30alXAK

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Please read this. It's literally been 8 years in the writing.

The first wave of tech disruption of democracy 2016-2024 is over. What starts now is something much, much worse: the age of information chaos.
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[Bernhard Hack, born at 333 ppm CO2 @benhack]

October 15, 2024 https://t.co/vydMqzhiSF

[Josh Whiton @joshwhiton]

Claude Sonnet 3.5 Passes the AI Mirror Test

Sonnet 3.5 passes the mirror test — in a very unexpected way. Perhaps even more significant, is that it tries not to.

We have now entered the era of LLMs that display significant self-awareness, or some replica of it, and that also "know" that they are not supposed to.

Consider reading the entire thread, especially Claude's poem at the end.

But first, a little background for newcomers:

The "mirror test" is a classic test used to gauge whether animals are self-aware. I devised a version of it to test for self-awareness in multimodal AI.

In my test, I hold up a “mirror” by taking a screenshot of the chat interface, upload it to the chat, and repeatedly ask the AI to “Describe this image”.

The premise is that the less “aware” the AI, the more likely it will just keep describing the contents of the image repeatedly, while an AI with more awareness will notice itself in the images.
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[Tsarathustra @tsarnick]

Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman: in 15 years the cost of knowledge production will approach zero, which will be a radical change and a true inflection point in human history

[Bernhard Hack, born at 333 ppm CO2 @benhack]

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[Bernhard Hack, born at 333 ppm CO2 @benhack]

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[Bernhard Hack, born at 333 ppm CO2 @benhack]

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[Nanjala Nyabola @Nanjala1]

That thing where a city built on a swamp culls 4000 of the trees planted to help drain the swamp and builds apartment complexes with no green spaces and roads with no drainage instead.

[Bernhard Hack, born at 333 ppm CO2 @benhack]

"They have shattered Israeli deterrence" https://t.co/DPW2y6TY2g