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Danish media's stand on Big Tech
Oped, Karen Rønde, Published on 06/02/2025
» As AI slop spreads across the internet, concerns about the future of high-quality information are growing. Without accurate and relevant human-generated data, model collapse -- whereby generative artificial intelligence trains on its own output and gradually degrades -- seems inevitable. The tech giants, well aware of this risk, have cut corners and skirted copyright law in their pursuit of training data for their large language models.
New York Times vs OpenAI: Who has the edge?
Noah Feldman, Bloomberg Opinion, Published on 28/12/2023
» The lawsuit filed by The New York Times against OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement pits one of the great establishment media institutions against the purveyor of a transformative new technology.
A curious place to find 'Lady Liberty'
Roger Crutchley, Published on 09/07/2023
» A headline which caught my eye in last Sunday's Post was "Highway 12 to economic heaven" with a report concerning the rich potential of this route which stretches west to east from Tak on the Myanmar border to Mukdahan, just this side of the Mekong River from Laos.
AI is about to transform childhood. Are we ready?
News, Tyler Cowen, Published on 18/03/2023
» With the introduction of GPT-4 and Claude, AI has taken another big step forward. GPT-4 is human-level or better at many hard tasks, a huge improvement over GPT-3.5, which was released only a few months ago. Yet amid the debate over these advances, there has been very little discussion of one of the most profound effects of AI large language models: how they will reshape childhood?
Navigating the risks of AI will require a team effort
Oped, Robert Muggah, Gabriella Seiler & Gordon LaForge, Published on 11/03/2023
» Recent months may well be remembered as the moment when predictive artificial intelligence went mainstream. While prediction algorithms have been in use for decades, the release of applications such as OpenAI's ChatGPT3 -- and its rapid integration with Microsoft's Bing search engine -- may have unleashed the floodgates when it comes to user-friendly AI.
A TikTok-Microsoft deal might solve everything
News, Tae Kim, Published on 03/08/2020
» It looks like the TikTok spinout scenario is fully in play. For weeks, White House officials -- including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and President Donald Trump -- have raised the prospect of a ban of ByteDance Ltd's TikTok app in the US, citing national security concerns.
Someone, somewhere still uses IE
Life, James Hein, Published on 12/02/2020
» A Microsoft engineer, Eric Lawrence, who worked on moving the Edge browser to a Google-driven open source base code, has suggested that people need to stop using the more traditional version of Internet Explorer. His plea was a personal one on his own blog but Microsoft cybersecurity chief Chris Jackson expressed the same sentiment a year earlier. IE still has a couple of percent of people using it -- probably those who had it installed on their machines -- that have yet to be upgraded. The technology is old and full of security holes but a number of organisations demand that it still be used.
Scans? What scans?
News, Postbag, Published on 28/01/2020
» My wife arrived from Taiwan yesterday at Suvarnabhumi airport at the same time as thousands of mainland Chinese with faces all covered with masks -- but to her surprise she could not find any health stations to scan arriving passengers for fever and other health concerns, especially with the coronavirus blowing freely around Asia.
KL-Beijing ties and the 'Mahathir doctrine'
News, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 28/08/2018
» Be careful what you say these days, especially when it comes to comments about Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, also known as Tun Mahathir, or Tun Ma by Chinese-language dailies in Malaysia, and his five-day visit to China. One can take what one hears literally at one's own risk.