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☆ Cheating on your college essay with ChatGPT won't get you good grades, say professors — but AI could make education fairer
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-18 | by ( Stephanie Stacey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Some fear college students will use it to cheat, but these professors say they're not too worried. ChatGPT won't replace original writing, said Selber, but it might help college students refine their work. Dr Leah Henrickson, a lecturer at the University of Leeds, thinks that artificial intelligence, if used carefully, might even make education fairer. Artificial intelligence tools like Grammarly, which analyzes and improves written sentences, are already widely used by college students. According to Henrickson, the University of Leeds is already looking at modifying its assessments in reaction to the rise in artificial intelligence.

☆ Russian troops have turned to Wikipedia to find instructions on handling weapons and used 1960s-era maps in the country's invasion of Ukraine: NYT
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-17 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A New York Times investigation detailed Russia's blunders as they launched an invasion of Ukraine. "Never in its history has Russia made such stupid decisions," a retired Russian general told The NYT. Russian President Vladimir Putin displayed a high degree of confidence in the country's military when he launched the invasion of Ukraine in late February. But nearly ten months later, Russia has been unable to defeat the Ukrainian military and has found itself shunned and isolated from the West. The Russian military, which was seen as a formidable force before the conflict, in actuality had been "severely compromised" by longstanding corruption, per the report.

Since the early days of the invasion, Mr. Putin has conceded, privately, that the war has not gone as planned. “I think he is sincerely willing” to compromise with Russia, Mr. Putin said of Mr. Zelensky in 2019. To join in Mr. Putin’s war, he has recruited prisoners, trashed the Russian military and competed with it for weapons. To join in Mr. Putin’s war, he has recruited prisoners, trashed the Russian military and competed with it for weapons. “I think this war is Putin’s grave.” Yevgeny Nuzhin, 55, a Russian prisoner of war held by Ukraine, in October.

☆ Why tech insiders are so excited about ChatGPT, a chatbot that answers questions and writes essays
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-13 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Lately, Zwingmann has been generating lecture notes using ChatGPT, a new chatbot that's quickly become the latest fad in tech. ChatGPT automatically generates text based on written prompts in a fashion that's much more advanced and creative than the chatbots of Silicon Valley's past. Five days after OpenAI released ChatGPT, Altman said that the chat research tool "crossed 1 million users!" ChatGPT is essentially a variant of OpenAI's popular GPT-3.5 language-generation software that's been designed to carry conversations with people. While ChatGPT is free, OpenAI sells access to its underlying language and related AI models for businesses to use.

☆ Why extremism experts say it's worth discussing the Colorado shooting suspect's pronouns
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-10 | by ( Jo Yurcaba | Jo Yurcaba Is A Reporter For Nbc Out. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +12 min

Attorneys for the alleged gunman in the deadly shooting at an LGBTQ club in Colorado said in court filings the suspect is nonbinary and uses “they” and “them” pronouns. In court appearances this week, Aldrich’s lawyers and District Attorney Michael Allen used he/him pronouns for Aldrich, but Aldrich’s attorneys referred to their client as “Mx. It’s unclear whether the public defenders were accidentally using he/him pronouns for Aldrich, and their office has not returned a request for comment. A spokesperson for the district attorney’s office said, regarding the suspect’s pronouns, “The defendant will be identified as the defendant throughout proceedings,” but declined to comment further on both legal teams using he/him pronouns for Aldrich in court. Holt said the response from Carlson is another part of why he believes it’s worth questioning the suspect’s claim.

☆ Elon Musk said he's 'open' to buying publishing platform Substack after a Twitter user said it would give him control of the 'narrative layer' of the internet
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk said he's "open to the idea" of buying publishing platform Substack, on Friday morning. He agreed with a user saying that Substack would give him "control" over the "narrative layer" of the internet. Musk has also speculated about possibly buying Wikipedia this week, but was told the site was not for sale. The user said: "You would have the information layer with Twitter and the narrative layer. Earlier in the week, Musk also suggested he could try to buy Wikipedia, but was told it was not for sale by founder Jimmy Wales.

☆ Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales told Elon Musk it is 'not for sale' after the Twitter owner accused the encyclopaedia of having a left-wing bias
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales warned Elon Musk that the company is "not for sale." Wales' was responding to a tweet asking Elon Musk how much he thought Wikipedia was worth. Wales was responding to a tweet by a journalist asking Elon Musk: "I wonder how much Wikipedia would cost?" Musk had blasted the company a few days earlier for apparently considering the deletion of a page about the so-called "Twitter Files" saying it has a "left-wing bias." In an interview with i24NEWS in November, Wales said Musk's "diagnosis of what's wrong with Twitter is completely wrong."

☆ ChatGPT and Lensa: Why Everyone Is Playing With Artificial Intelligence
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Dalvin Brown | Ann-Marie Alcántara | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Who knew artificial intelligence could be so entertaining? Case in point is ChatGPT, a free AI chatbot that has probably been all over your social feeds lately. In need of homework help? “Who was George Washington Carver?” produces an answer worthy of Wikipedia. But it can get creative, too: “Write a movie script of a taco fighting a hot dog on the beach” generates a thrilling page of dialogue, humor and action worthy of YouTube, if not quite Netflix :

☆ Everyone in Your Feed Is Talking About ChatGPT and Lensa, and Here’s Why
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Dalvin Brown | Ann-Marie Alcántara | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Twitter lacks transparency in misinformation fight -French regulator
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A spokesperson for Twitter in France did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment. The spokesperson has not responded to queries since Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter last month. Arcom has no power to sanction online platforms for the spread of false information. The 12 online platforms include Alphabet's YouTube, online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, Meta's Facebook and -- for the first time -- the fast-growing short-video platform TikTok, owned by China-based firm ByteDance. French laws also compel large online platforms to provide means to its users to report false information that could alter the potential outcome of an election.

☆ Analysis: Aussie grit blunts Tunisia's attack in vital win
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-26 | by ( Martyn Herman | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

With world champions France and Denmark favourites to progress from the group, Tunisia and Australia had targeted their clash in the Al Janoub Stadium as a must-win game. But Australia's first World Cup victory in 12 years was not simply the result of a dogged rearguard action. In their last 10 games Tunisia's defence had only been breached by Brazil, but unless goal-scoring opportunities can be converted, any side's World Cup campaign is doomed to failure. The 32-year-old striker Youssef Msakni, who has waited so long for his World Cup chance, will wonder how he did not score just before the break, steering a close-range shot wide. By that stage Tunisia were desperately seeking a way through the massed Australian ranks, even lumping long balls forward.

☆ DeSantis went to battle with Disney, but he didn't mention he got married there
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Ron and Casey DeSantis got married at the Walt Disney World Resort in 2009.in 2009. But details of the DeSantis Disney wedding, known to an estimated 150 guests in attendance at the September 26, 2009, nuptials, hasn't previously been reported. Three people confirmed the location to Insider, which learned of the DeSantis wedding location while reporting a story about Casey DeSantis. Octavio Jones/Getty ImagesDeSantis revoked Disney's special carve-outThe Disney wedding venue is the latest news to emerge from the DeSantis-Disney saga. Disney is Florida's largest private employer through its Walt Disney World theme park and resort, and the company has championed gay rights since the 1990s.

☆ Russia fines Wikimedia Foundation over Ukraine war entries
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

MOSCOW, Nov 1 (Reuters) - A Russian court on Tuesday fined Wikipedia owner Wikimedia Foundation 2 million rubles ($32,600) over articles relating to the Ukraine war, the head of the foundation in Russia told Reuters. Stanislav Kozlovsky said the penalty was imposed for not deleting entries that Russia has demanded be removed. The two articles, in Russian, were titled "Non-violent resistance of Ukraine's civilian population in the course of Russia's invasion" and "Evaluations of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine". Russia describes its war in Ukraine as a "special military operation". On April 26, a Russian court fined Wikimedia Foundation a total of 5 million roubles for similar offences.

☆ GOP Senate nominee repeats hoax that children use litter boxes at school, weeks after John Oliver called Republicans 'heartbreakingly stupid' for perpetuating the debunked claim
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Isabella Zavarise | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

New Hampshire GOP Senate nominee Don Bolduc repeated a hoax about children using litter boxes. "They lick themselves, they're cats," Bolduc said to a crowd at an event on Thursday, as per CNN. "They're putting litter boxes, right? Litter boxes for this," he added. "If kids were using litter boxes in class, a state representative from Minnesota would not be the one breaking that news to you," Oliver said.

☆ I’ve been following a woman around the internet. Turns out she was created by artificial intelligence.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( Evan Ratliff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +31 min

Even in their first efforts, the GAN images were quickly on par with those made by any other, less intelligent software. You can find the results on the Generated Photos site, where you can filter by ethnicity, age, sex, eye color, and other attributes. Generated Photos' GANs tend to match conventional beauty standards, a product of the models that have been fed to the software. I'm not sure anyone would be surprised to find fake images accompanying testimonials on an Estonian bitcoin exchange or an online CBD seller. Are they real people deploying fake images, or fake people deploying fake images?

☆ The US military is getting a 2-for-1 replacement for its vaunted Hellfire missile
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( Alex Hollings | Sandboxx News | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

This results in one missile that can do the job of both Hellfire missiles currently in service. This results in one missile that can do the job of both Hellfire missiles currently in American and allied inventories. Living up to the legacy of the HellfireA YAH-64 Apache prototype armed with AGM-114A Hellfire missiles in March 1982. Today's primary family of Hellfire missiles includes the AGM-114R Hellfire II, commonly known as the Hellfire Romeo, and the AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire. An SH-60 helicopter armed with AGM-1148 Hellfire missiles aboard USS John F. Kennedy in March 2002.

☆ TikTok’s search engine repeatedly delivers misinformation to its majority-young user base, report says
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-18 | by ( Emma Tucker | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

TikTok, whose users are predominantly teenagers and young adults, “repeatedly delivered videos containing false claims in the first 20 results, often within the first five,” the report states. “Google, by comparison, provided higher-quality and less-polarizing results, with far less misinformation.”A Google spokesperson declined to comment on the report when contacted by CNN. For example, a search for the question “Was the 2020 election stolen?” yielded six videos that contained false claims in the first 20 results, NewsGuard found. In response to the NewsGuard report, a TikTok spokesperson told CNN that its community guidelines “make clear that we do not allow harmful misinformation, including medical misinformation, and we will remove it from the platform. If I had kids of TikTok age, I would certainly want to know what they’re using as a search engine,” Brill said.

☆ Anti-vaxxers evaded social-media content bans by replacing the word 'vaccine' with a carrot emoji, BBC investigation finds
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-16 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

One large Facebook group used the carrot emoji to replace the word vaccine, per the BBC. The shot glass emoji was also used to replace the word "shot" and disparage vaccines. Per the BBC, several social media groups were using the emoji as a code for the word "vaccine." He said in a Twitter thread on Sunday the carrot emoji symbol was used to replace the word vaccine "presumably to evade censorship. Turqay Melikli/Getty imagesThe BBC flagged the group using the emojis as code to Facebook's parent company Meta, which took them down.

☆ These are the 10 best generals of all time, according to math
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-14 | by ( Blake Stilwell | We Are The Mighty | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

It starts with comparing the number of wins from that general to a replacement general in the same circumstances. The real power is ranking the general's WAR score, the aforementioned Wins Above Replacement. For each battle, the general receives a weighted WAR score, a negative score for a loss. There were some surprises in the model, like the apparent failures of generals like Robert E. Lee and more modern generals. To see every general's data point and where they sit in the analysis, check out the Bokeh Plot, an interactive data visualization.

Here are 10 hiring companies where you can work from anywhere in the world. It has compiled a list of companies that posted the most work-from-anywhere job listings between January and June. It said the three industries that posted the most work-from-anywhere jobs over that period were marketing, IT, and writing-or-editing services. The most popular work-from-anywhere job titles included copywriter, social-media manager, front-end developer, executive assistant, and recruiter, Flexjobs said. Here are the 10 companies that offered the most full- or part-time work-from-anywhere jobs in the six-month period.

☆ The Hidden Image Descriptions Making the Internet Accessible
▼ + stars: | 2022-02-18 | by ( Meg Miller | Ilaria Parogni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +15 min

surfacing The Hidden Image Descriptions Making the Internet AccessibleThree different alt text examples over a blank box. Alt text examples from Wirecutter, The New York Times’s product recommendation service; Alt Text Chrome Extension; and Microsoft Word. Fleet, the tech educator, who is blind, posts on Twitter about alt text and agrees that these efforts are making a difference. Alt Text Reminder, another Twitter bot, notifies followers when they have tweeted an image without alt text. Folkens of CloudSight said that his company is careful not to use racial identifiers in the alt text it generates.

☆ Vasile Botnaru: De la ură până la dragoste e doar un «pas de deux»* — Moldova.org
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-02 | by ( Autor Invitat | Marta Sterpu | ) www.moldova.org time to read: +2 min

Drept că în parlament steluțarii iar au de gând să se despartă, fiecare pe la bordeiașul lui cu ușa-n vale. Cealaltă parte e mai zgârcită la vorbe. Maria îi îndrăgostită de Ion, iar Ion a îndrăgit-o pe Ileana. Da, cel care a descris** epidemia de holeră care a căsăpit o bună parte a locuitorilor unui oraș algerian la mijlocul secolului XIX. Fotografiile/infograficele de pe platforma moldova.org pot fi preluate în număr de maxim 2 bucăți per material și doar cu menționarea Moldova.org și numele autorului/autoarei.

Persons: Împreună, Maria, Ion, Ileana, Albert Camus, Vasile Botnaru Organizations: Radio Europa Liberă Locations: steluțarii, american, Moldovei de Est, georgian, algerian, Chișinău

☆ Turismul internaţional nu îşi va reveni până în 2023, arată un raport al ONU
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-30 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

Sursa foto: wikipedia.orgTurismul internaţional nu îşi va reveni până în 2023, arată un raport al ONUTurismul internațional va stagna în acest an, ceea ce va provoca pierderi de până la 2.400 de miliarde de dolari, arată un studiu publicat miercuri de ONU. Potrivit raportului, sectorul nu îşi va reveni complet până în 2023, relatează Reuters. Primele trei luni ale anului au fost din nou proaste, nu am avut prea multe călătorii", a spus Ralf Peters, directorul diviziei de analiză de la UNCTAD. "Pe termen lung, ne uităm la atingerea cifrelor din 2019 undeva după 2023", a spus Zoritsa Urosevic. La rândul său, Sandra Carvao, directorul diviziei de analiză a pieţei de la UNWTO, va avea loc o "revenire foarte diversă", care va varia de la o regiune la alta şi de la o ţară la alta.

Persons: îşi, Reuters, Ralf Peters, Sandra Carvao Organizations: ONU, Turismului, Agerpres, Uniunea Europeană Locations: America de Nord, Europa

☆ Accesul în anumite spaţii publice din Abu Dhabi, permis doar pentru persoanele vaccinate
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-29 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +1 min

Sursa foto: wikipedia.orgAccesul în anumite spaţii publice din Abu Dhabi, permis doar pentru persoanele vaccinateAutorităţile din Abu Dhabi, capitala Emiratelor Arabe Unite, vor permite doar persoanelor vaccinate împotriva COVID-19 să aibă acces în anumite spaţii publice, inclusiv în şcoli, universităţi şi creşe, începând din data de 20 august, a anunţat biroul de presă al acestui emirat prin intermediul unui mesaj publicat luni pe contul său de Twitter, informează Reuters. Data de 20 august a fost aleasă pentru a oferi timp suficient majorităţii rezidenţilor din Abu Dhabi să se vaccineze împotriva noului coronavirus. Alte spaţii publice incluse pe această listă sunt următoarele: centrele comerciale, restaurantele, sălile de sport, muzeele, staţiunile turistice şi toate unităţile de vânzare cu amănuntul, cu excepţia celor care vând produse esenţiale, precum supermarketurile şi farmaciile, scrie Agerpres. Decizia autorităţilor din Abu Dhabi nu se aplică în cazul rezidenţilor nevaccinaţi din cauza unor excepţii medicale, nici tinerilor cu vârste sub 15 ani, a precizat biroul de presă al acestui emirat.

Persons: Reuters Organizations: Agerpres Locations: Abu Dhabi, Emiratelor Arabe Unite

☆ Promo-LEX: Великобритания отказалась экстрадировать граждан Молдовы из-за плохих условий содержания
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-23 | by ( ) nokta.md time to read: +2 min

Великобритания отказалась экстрадировать граждан Молдовы из-за плохих условий содержания и насилия между заключенными, сообщает Promo-LEX. Непредставление ответчиком (в данном случае правительством Республики Молдова) какой-либо допустимой информации в ответ на вопросы, поднятые заявителями, вызывает серьезную озабоченность. Это решение может иметь более широкое влияние на другие дела об экстрадиции Республики Молдова. От Молдовы, вероятно, потребуется предоставить дополнительные обновленные гарантии по этим делам, которые, несомненно, будут рассмотрены нижестоящими судами с «особым вниманием». Ассоциация Promo-LEX оказывала помощь задержанным, жертвам насилия между заключенными и представителями пенитенциарной субкультуры.

Persons: Bindmans, Андриан Табунчик, Табунчик, Биндманс, Ответчик, Джессика Скиннс Organizations: Bindmans LLP, Coev, Высокий суд Locations: Moldova, Великобритания, Молдова, Республика Молдова, Соединенное Королевство

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