Douglas Paul Gagnon
@gagnon
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Consultant, AI Pedagogical Agents; Retired Founding Director (E-Learning and IT Systems & Services) at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine in NTU, Singapore.
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Joined March 2008
Dear All. I would like to update you that I have been made victim of deepfake by a cyber assailant, asking for money. I have reported the case to the Singapore Police on 7 July. The assailant/s have hacked into my digital ecosystem. The scammers are using AI technology to mimic.
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@elonmusk going further than just an endorsement. On Monday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Musk was donating $45 million a month to a Republican political action committee. Those funds will be used to help re-elect !
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Tesla stock has been slowly making back the losses it suffered after the company delayed its AI event.
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Let me see if I got this right @elonmusk. You champion the cause of democracy and your platform’s ideological compass regarding same, yet you now support the very man whose sole intent is to bring democracy to its knees. While I applaud your DIE concerns - we all do trust me -.
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The question of balance:. A reader asks: Another sad commentary on our media pack mentality. They are devouring every tidbit they can find about the state of Biden’s brain. I haven’t seen one story about the brain of a malignant narcissist and what that would portend for the.
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Given Trump’s talks of revenge, how does this statement by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court make any sense:. ‘In general, Roberts said Monday that presidential immunity from prosecution is necessary to ensure an “energetic, independent executive” as designed by the framers.
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RT @Liz_Cheney: Mitch McConnell knows Trump provoked the violent attack on our Capitol and then “watched television happily” as his mob bru….
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Bingo: “If the Kremlin had designed him in a Moscow laboratory, it would have been hard-pressed to come up with a patsy as useful as Trump.”.
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The Western alliance wouldn’t survive another Trump term.
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If you aren’t worried about a Trump dictatorship because it’s just Americans who will suffer, think again…. If this man wins, Democracy dies, if in fact it isn’t already dead.
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There is a clear path to dictatorship in the United States, and it is getting shorter every day. So why is everyone behaving like normal?
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Big tech has distracted world from existential risk of AI, says top scientist…in case Sam Altman and his cult missed this…you will be held to account…
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Max Tegmark argues that the downplaying is not accidental and threatens to delay, until it’s too late, the strict regulations needed
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“AI services should be proven to meet obligatory safety standards before hitting the market, so companies equate safety with profit and stave off any potential public backlash from unexpected harm, said Max Tegmark, President of Future of Life Institute”
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South Korea's science and information technology minister said on Wednesday the world must cooperate to ensure the successful development of AI, as a global summit on the rapidly evolving technology...
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A reader asks: Why is it that so many people today can’t seem to understand how bad of a role model Donald Trump is? Didn’t their parents teach them anything about being civil toward others and about how you can tell a lot about a man’s character by how he treats others? What.
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via @NYTimes. Watch the video of this ‘dude’ - or as a student of mine once defined the term for me: A pimple of an horse’s ass - and ask yourself this simple question: ‘why are the authorities accommodating this man?’
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The modified Dodge Charger roaming Seattle’s downtown by night has infuriated residents. But it seems no one can stop it.
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Google’s weird AI answers hint at a fundamental problem
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There’s no known fix for large language models making things up, experts say.
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“The media and sullen nonvoters should listen to Ken Burns If voters on the right and left renounce “withering self-examination,” they at least might imagine how they would fancy a fascist regime under Trump, who promises to suspend the Constitution…”
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The historian knows something about civil war — and moral responsibility in politics.
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Mr. Olah, the Anthropic research leader, cautioned that while the new findings represented important progress, A.I. interpretability was still far from a solved problem.For starters, he said, the largest A.I. models most likely contain billions of…
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Researchers at the A.I. company Anthropic claim to have found clues about the inner workings of large language models, possibly helping to prevent their misuse and to curb their potential threats.
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