{"id":3158,"date":"2023-02-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?p=3158"},"modified":"2023-06-15T14:35:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T22:35:46","slug":"href-weekly-feb-19-25-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?p=3158","title":{"rendered":"href weekly | Feb 19-25 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The systems can \u201cunderstand\u201d only specific situations they have been exposed to in the past and are unable to generalize in a way that humans find easy. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2023\/02\/man-beats-machine-at-go-in-human-victory-over-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2023\/02\/man-beats-machine-at-go-in-human-victory-over-ai\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">we should be able to recognize ourselves in our new machine mirrors, but instead, it seems like more than a few people are convinced they\u2019ve spotted another form of life. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23604075\/ai-chatbots-bing-chatgpt-intelligent-sentient-mirror-test\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23604075\/ai-chatbots-bing-chatgpt-intelligent-sentient-mirror-test<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?tag=synth\">#synth<\/a> Does Not Exist <a href=\"https:\/\/thissynthdoesnotexist.com\/?id=62\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/thissynthdoesnotexist.com\/?id=62<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Social Media Lab&#8217;s Fact Check Assistant is an AI-powered bot for simple fact checking. It was created as a proof of concept for the Social Media Lab&#8217;s 2023 Canadian <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?tag=ai\">#AI<\/a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?tag=misinformation\">#Misinformation<\/a> Hackathon. <a href=\"https:\/\/factcheckassistant.socialmedialab.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/factcheckassistant.socialmedialab.ca\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230; focusing on how people use <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/tags\/AI\">#AI<\/a> in class rather than whether they use it will result in better learning outcomes, happier students, and graduates who are better prepared for a world while AI is likely to be ubiquitous. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/HGAAD\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archive.ph\/HGAAD<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Politics &amp; Economics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Water is regulated. Air quality is regulated. The banks are regulated, our jobs are regulated. Trains, cars, buses. Food standards are regulated. Why is the quality and cost of our homes just run by a load of lads who buy their jeans at Next?&#8221; <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?tag=housing\">#housing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/n7zadk\/everything-ive-learnt-about-london-renting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/n7zadk\/everything-ive-learnt-about-london-renting<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bits The systems can \u201cunderstand\u201d only specific situations they have been exposed to in the past and are unable to generalize in a way that humans find easy. https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2023\/02\/man-beats-machine-at-go-in-human-victory-over-ai\/ we should be able to recognize ourselves in our new machine mirrors, but instead, it seems like more than a few people are convinced they\u2019ve spotted&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-links","kind-article","h-entry","hentry"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3158"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3163,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158\/revisions\/3163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}