Paolo Massa

The question of whether Machines Can Think... is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim. — Edsger Dijkstra (1984)

If I tell you "Rwanda", what your brain thinks? Here an attempt to show what #Claude #Anthropic #LLM model thinks transformer-circuits.pub/2024/scaling-m… 100+ examples such as "Muslims/Islam linked to terrorism" and "Rape" and more #AI

“I think we’re moving into a period when, for the first time ever, we may have things more intelligent than us” (Geoffrey Hinton) I kept saying this to people I think aren't on defensive mode. Now a Nobel prize said it so I can say "It's not just me" ;) x.com/60Minutes/stat…

Researchers tested AI for creativity. It passed with flying colors fastcompany.com/90946301/resea…

More than 100,000 papers were published on COVID in those first 12 months (...) It would have been impossible to read and comprehend every one of those studies. No human being could (and, perhaps, none would want to). cnet.com/science/meta-t…

Italy as best country in believing climate change is a global emergency gnuband.org/2022/12/21/ita…

Our first responsibility has not changed: tell the truth - as far as we can discern it. Academics cannot fix decades of delay, but we can help societies take the radical action now needed to limit even worse outcomes. signon.scientistrebellion.com

nature.com/articles/d4158… Top climate scientists are sceptical that nations will rein in global warming A Nature survey reveals that many authors of the latest IPCC climate-science report are anxious about the future and expect to see catastrophic changes in their lifetimes.

#AI is #sentient ... as a #squirrel aiweirdness.com/interview-with… if you feed lots of text into an AI about "the experience of being conscious", the AI could seem to be like that. The same is true about "being a squirrel" ;)

@gloquenzi Qui c'e' la mappa con il costo annuo di concessione ilpost.it/2022/03/01/map… se e' quello evidenziato parliamo di 8594,6 euro all'anno.

Mi piacerebbe sapere quanto paga il gestore di concessione demaniale Prezzi choc per il mare a Pescoluse: fino a mille euro al giorno per il gazebo extra large corrieredelmezzogiorno.corriere.it/bari/cronaca/2…

@NatDeGregorio Suggerimento. Mettere sempre le fonti (come indirizzo web) di ogni immagine o statistica. In questo caso FONTE: elaborazione openpolis su dati Ocse, vedi openpolis.it/quanto-guadagn…

Numeri che non possiamo più ignorare, che nessuno può più mistificare. Pay them more.

A movie about her mother which might be informative imdb.com/title/tt510573…

Son of a #philippines dictator #kleptocrat with guinness record "Greatest robbery of a Government" rewrites #history. On #facebook and social media. And becomes president. #revisionism #Organized_disinformation_efforts_and_use_of_troll_accounts" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historica…

It creates some amazing opportunities teens might not have offline (e.g. connecting with others who share their interests or identities), but it also creates an environment that can be very challenging for teens — and adults! — to navigate.

And it’s *more quantifiable*. There are numerical status metrics (likes, shares) on everything they do and see. These features come together to make social media a really unique context, different from what we’ve seen before.

From emilyoster.substack.com/p/should-my-ki… @JacquelineNesi to @profemilyoster "Social media has a number of features that make it fundamentally different from traditional, in-person experiences.

Two years ago I discovered scholarship arguing that AI is creating a new colonial world order. The idea haunted me & pushed me to investigate. Today I begin to release my findings: a culmination of reporting across five continents. Here’s my introduction. technologyreview.com/2022/04/19/104…