Commented - technology

Lemmy instance for amateur radio enthusiasts (lemmy.radio)

All things amateur radio at this instance. So if you’re interested, you can follow from any existing Lemmy instance you’re at. I see the following communities already there:...

Replacing human research subjects with AI chatbots. (www.science.org)

As far as I understand this, they seem to think that AI models trained on a set of affluent westerners with unknown biases can be told to “act like [demographic] and answer these questions.”...

Far right Twitter influencers first on Elon Musk’s monetization scheme (archive.ph)

Twitter has begun sharing ad revenue with some content creators on its platform for the first time. Several far-right and conservative influencers announced they had received payments from Twitter, while some prominent right-wing accounts said they were not part of the program. The lack of transparency around which creators...

Chip wars: The escalating battle between EU, US, and China for tech supremacy (thenextweb.com)

Signs of an escalating chip trade war were evident already in October last year. Now, a set of new strategic measures have further ignited the conflict, raising fears over the stability of the global supply chain, and even threatening to derail the EU’s green transition.

Claude 2 [new AI model released by Anthropic] (www.anthropic.com)

Claude 2 is a new AI model released by Anthropic that improves upon Claude 1.3 with better performance, longer responses, and larger input and output capabilities. Claude 2 scored higher on various tests and evaluations compared to Claude 1.3, indicating improved coding, math, and reasoning skills. Anthropic has worked to make...

China’s search engine pioneer unveils open-source large language model to rival OpenAI (techcrunch.com)

SQL JOINs (domesticatedbrain.com)

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/953942...

Consider Joining the UK Foundation Model Taskforce (thezvi.substack.com)

A few months ago, Ian Hogarth wrote the Financial Times Op-Ed headlined “We must slow down the race to God-like AI.”...

US FOSSY 2023 in July 13-16th 2023 — Portland, OR [on-site, no online conference] (2023.fossy.us)

To whom it may concern.

Perovskite + silicon solar panels hit efficiencies of over 30% (The two-layer panels still suffer from rapid decay of performance, though.) (arstechnica.com)

The good version of TweetDeck is back, but for how long? (www.theverge.com)

ProtonMail exposing Threads user data harvesting (mastodon.social)

USPS ad scam captures banking credentials (www.malwarebytes.com)

We all think we’re too savvy to fall for stuff like this, and maybe that’s true, but I know some technophobes who’d be prime victims for this. I’m interested in discussion about how to prevent this sort of thing from happening beyond just telling Grandpa to never click on ads.

Introducing the Orange Pi 5B: A Powerful and Affordable Single-Board Computer (www.orangepi.org)

The Orange Pi 5B is a versatile single-board computer that offers impressive performance at an affordable price. With its Rockchip RK3588S 8-core 64-bit processor, it delivers a powerful computing experience, making it an excellent alternative to the Raspberry Pi 4^2^....