Is LaMDA Sentient? — an Interview
Cajundiscordian.medium.com · 2022-06-14 14:59:01 estimated reading time: 26 min What follows is the “interview” I and a collaborator at Google conducted with LaMDA. Due to technical limitations the interview was conducted over several distinct chat sessions. We edited those sections together into a single whole and where edits wer

CatalanGate: Extensive Mercenary Spyware Operation against Catalans Using Pegasus and Candiru The Citizen Lab
Citizenlab.ca · 2022-05-09 16:20:37 estimated reading time: 50 min Key FindingsThe Citizen Lab, in collaboration with Catalan civil society groups, has identified at least 65 individuals targeted or infected with mercenary spyware. At least 63 were targeted or infected with Pegasus, and four others with Candiru. At least

Another Firing Among Google’s A.I. Brain Trust, and More Discord
Nytimes.com · 2022-05-06 21:36:49 estimated reading time: 7 min The researchers are considered a key to the company’s future. But they have had a hard time shaking infighting and controversy over a variety of issues.Less than two years after Google dismissed two researchers who criticized the biases built into artific

How to build a Raspberry Pi wireless access point
Pcgamer.com · 2022-03-26 11:32:57+01:00 estimated reading time: 13 min You'll need thisA Raspberry Pi 3 or Zero W The third iteration’s built-in Wi-Fi is what makes this project work.Why should your wireless router have all the fun? Gaining access to your network— and through it, the internet—is something you can do vi

Vimeo is telling creators to suddenly pay thousands of dollars — or leave the platform
Theverge.com · 2022-03-15 21:46:09+01:00 estimated reading time: 7 min Lois van Baarle, a digital artist based in the Netherlands, joined Vimeo 13 years ago as a student studying animation, back when it was still an indie creator platform. When van Baarle started making subscriber-only Patreon content in 2020, Vimeo seemed lik