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[33]Close binspamdupenotthebestofftopicslownewsdaystalestupid freshfunnyinsightfulinterestingmaybe offtopicflamebaittrollredundantoverrated insightfulinterestinginformativefunnyunderrated descriptive typodupeerror Do you develop on GitHub? You can keep using GitHub but automatically [34]sync your GitHub releases to SourceForge quickly and easily with [35]this tool so your projects have a backup location, and get your project in front of SourceForge's nearly 30 million monthly users. It takes less than a minute. Get new users downloading your project releases today! [36]Sign up for the Slashdot newsletter! or [37]check out the new Slashdot job board to browse remote jobs or jobs in your area [38]× 171196382 story [39]AI [40]Hey Alexa, What Should Students Learn About AI? [41](nytimes.com) [42]1 Posted by EditorDavid on Monday June 19, 2023 @07:34AM from the education-by-Amazon dept. Long-time Slashdot reader [43]theodp writes: While schools debate what to teach students about powerful new A.I. tools, tech giants, universities and nonprofits are intervening with free lessons," writes the NY Times reports in [44]Hey, Alexa, What Should Students Learn About AI? Senior Amazon executive Rohit Prasad visited a school in Boston called STEM Academy to observe an Amazon-sponsored AI lesson using Alexa, according to the article, "And he assured the Dearborn students there would soon be millions of new jobs in A.I." "We need to create the talent for the next generation," Mr. Prasad, the head scientist for Alexa, told the class. "So we are educating about A.I. at the earliest, grass-roots level." A few miles away, Sally Kornbluth, the president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was delivering a more sobering message about A.I. to students from local schools who had gathered at Boston's Kennedy Library complex for a workshop on A.I. risks and regulation. "Because A.I. is such a powerful new technology, in order for it to work well in society, it really needs some rules," Dr. Kornbluth said. "We have to make sure that what it doesn't do is cause harm." The same-day events — one encouraging work in artificial intelligence and the other cautioning against deploying the technology too hastily — mirrored the larger debate currently raging in the United States over the promise and potential peril of A.I. Both student workshops were organized by an M.I.T. initiative on "responsible A.I." whose donors include Amazon, Google and Microsoft. The article emphasizes that schools face a big question: Should they teach AI programming and other AI-related skills employers will seek? "Or should students learn to anticipate and mitigate A.I. harms?" Last week, Amazon agreed to pay $25 million [45]to settle federal charges that it had indefinitely kept children's voice recordings, violating the federal online children's privacy law. The company said it disputed the charges and denied that it had violated the law. The company noted that customers could review and delete their Alexa voice recordings. But the one-hour Amazon-led workshop did not touch on the company's data practices. apply tags__________ 171196474 story [46]Google [47]Google is Building a 153-Acre Neighborhood By Its Headquarters [48](sfgate.com) [49]19 Posted by EditorDavid on Monday June 19, 2023 @03:34AM from the company's-town dept. In the heart of Silicon Valley, the city of Mountain View, California "just [50]approved its biggest development ever," reports SFGate, "and it's for exactly the company you'd expect." Google got the go-ahead to build a 153-acre mixed-use neighborhood just south of its headquarters in north Mountain View on June 13, with unanimous city council approval. Plans for the 30-year project, which will supplant the Google offices and parking lots currently in the area, include over 3 million square feet of office space and 7,000 residential units... Originally, the developers planned to dedicate 20% of the new housing to affordable units, but the approved plan sets aside only 15% for lower- and middle-income housing. Google lowered the target to make the project viable in an uncertain economic climate, a spokesperson told SFGATE. This past January, the firm laid off 12,000 workers. The new development sounds an awful lot like the "company towns" of 1900-era American settlement — firms ran all the stores and housing for their workers — but a Google spokesperson said the new project's restaurants, housing and services would serve the broader Mountain View community. Along with the housing and Google office space, the plans include 26 acres of public parks and open space, up to 288,990 square feet of ground-floor commercial space, land for a school, new streets and a private utility system. The developers have 30 years to complete the project, as long as Google and Lendlease hit permit benchmarks and complete other terms within the first 15. apply tags__________ 171194966 story [51]The Courts [52]Trial Lawyer Went After Crypto Companies. Then Someone Went After Him. [53](sfgate.com) [54]22 Posted by EditorDavid on Monday June 19, 2023 @12:34AM from the currency-events dept. Trial lawyer Kyle Roche has led an interesting life, [55]according to the New York Times. He once earned $100 million selling bitcoin. He helped win a case against Craig Wright (who claims to be Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto) through his law firm Roche Freedman. And Roche also founded a startup that lets people bet on the outcome of (civil) lawsuits, "[56]to make access to justice more affordable." But something very bad for his career happened in January of 2022 when two businessmen flew Roche from Miami to the U.K. to discuss an investment. When he woke up the next morning, Roche said, he felt groggy... The brain fog was odd because he didn't think he'd had all that much to drink. As he flew back to Miami a few days later, Roche couldn't shake the feeling that something was amiss. Months passed. Then, one day last summer, Roche's world detonated. A website called Crypto Leaks posted two dozen videos of him that had been secretly recorded during his meetings with Villavicencio and Ager-Hanssen. The videos portrayed Roche and his law firm, Roche Freedman, as being in the pocket of one of their crypto clients [Ava Labs]... In other clips, Roche made it sound like his sole concern, even when representing other clients, was to promote Ava Labs' interests... One after another, companies that Roche Freedman had sued filed motions to disqualify the firm from their cases. In October, the first of those motions succeeded: A federal judge in New York tossed Roche Freedman from a case it had filed against Tether, the operator of the world's most used "stablecoin." Within days, Roche was forced to resign from the law firm he had founded. With his career in tatters, he said, he enrolled in ethics classes and began to see a therapist. Roche calls the recorded remarks baseless bluster to impress a prospective investor (and alleges in court there are signs of deep fake alterations). While Roche "was felled by his own loose lips and his overly cozy relationship with a client," the Times reports "he also was the victim of an elaborate international setup." On April 3, 2020, Roche Freedman filed lawsuits seeking class-action status against seven issuers of digital coins, alleging they had pumped what amounted to unregistered securities with false statements and then dumped them, leaving retail investors holding the bag... Those suits were just an opening salvo: Sixteen months later, Roche filed his biggest securities fraud case yet. It alleged that a British entrepreneur, Dominic Williams, and entities he controlled had swindled investors out of billions of dollars by aggressively promoting, and then dumping, a digital coin tied to a grandiose plan to revolutionize computing. Williams had boldly proclaimed that his Internet Computer blockchain — a decentralized network of computers powered by a digital token called ICP — would supplant the big cloud services offered by Amazon and Microsoft and become humanity's primary computing platform. But after an initial surge that briefly made it one of the most valuable cryptocurrencies, ICP had plummeted 92% — a collapse that Roche's lawsuit attributed to "massive" selling by Williams and other insiders. (Williams denied the allegations.) The Times reports that Roche's prospective investor Ager-Hanssen, "in addition to running his venture capital firm, has long had a sideline digging up dirt on behalf of wealthy clients entangled in business disputes in Britain and Scandinavia. On multiple occasions, he has secretly recorded his targets. For example, in a 2014 interview, he recounted how he had snared the adversary of a Swedish financier with a hidden microphone and boasted that he employed former intelligence officers from the CIA, MI6 and Mossad..." Roche believes them because he thinks he knows who hired Ager-Hanssen: Williams, the British entrepreneur who was the target of Roche Freedman's biggest pump-and-dump lawsuit... On May 12, 2022, Williams wrote on Twitter that he was "coming for" his critics. That was the same day the cryptoleaks.info domain name was registered. That was the same day the cryptoleaks.info domain name was registered. Then, on June 9, 2022, the Crypto Leaks website went live. Billing itself as the defender of "the honest crypto community," it posted two reports that aligned with Williams' interests... The first espoused a complicated theory about the ICP token crash that Williams had previously floated on Twitter. The second attacked the Times for [57]an article it had published about the crash. Williams tweeted a link to that Crypto Leaks report, calling it "Gobsmacking." The Dfinity Foundation, a Swiss nonprofit that Williams created to oversee his blockchain, has since sued the Times for defamation in New York. The Times is seeking to dismiss the suit. The videos of Roche were the crux of Crypto Leaks' third exposé. After they were published, Williams and Dfinity filed a motion to disqualify Roche Freedman as plaintiffs' counsel in the pump-and-dump lawsuit, saying Roche's comments demonstrated "a disregard for the integrity of the judicial system...." Last month, the judge overseeing the pump-and-dump case granted Williams' motion and disqualified Freedman Normand Friedland as plaintiffs' counsel. apply tags__________ 171194428 story [58]Stats [59]Gen Xers and Older Millennials Say They'd Prefer to Live in an Era Before the Internet [60](fastcompany.com) [61]161 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday June 18, 2023 @09:34PM from the survey-says dept. A new Harris Poll [62]shared exclusively with Fast Company found that most Americans would prefer to live "in a simpler era before everyone was obsessed with screens and social media," reports Fast Company, adding "this sentiment is especially strong among older millennials and Gen Xers." The Wrap [63]summarizes the poll results: 77% of middle-age Americans (35-54 years old) say they want to return to a time before society was "plugged in," meaning a time before there was widespread internet and cell phone usage... 63% of younger folks (18-34 years old) were also keen on returning to a pre-plugged-in world, despite that being a world they largely never had a chance to occupy. In total, 67% of respondents said they'd prefer things as they used to be versus as they are now. "Interestingly, baby boomers were slightly less eager to time hop, with only 60% of people over 55 saying they'd prefer to return to yesteryear," notes Fast Company: While Americans may want to unshackle themselves from the burden of constant connectivity, an overwhelming 90% also said that being open-minded about new technologies is important, a finding that mostly held up across demographics. About half of respondents even said they tend to adopt new technologies before most people they know... Just over half said they found keeping up with new technologies overwhelming, and about that same percentage said they believe technology is more likely to divide people than unite them. Here, it was younger respondents who took the most pessimistic view, with 57% of people under 35 agreeing that technology divides, versus 43% who disagreed. apply tags__________ 171194152 story [64]United States [65]'Plan To Save Downtown San Francisco From Doom Loop Approved by Lawmakers' [66](sfstandard.com) [67]144 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday June 18, 2023 @07:09PM from the open-up-your-golden-gates dept. An anonymous reader shared [68]this report from the nonprofit journalism site, the San Francisco Standard: The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved legislation that aims to shore up the city's beleaguered Downtown by filling empty storefronts and [69]expediting the conversion of underused office buildings into housing. The bill is a major component of [70]Mayor London Breed's recovery agenda. Co-sponsored by Board President Aaron Peskin, it amends the city's planning code to expand residential uses and Downtown office conversions. It also streamlines the review of certain projects, among other changes... Even with speedier project approvals, converting San Francisco office buildings to housing remains a costly endeavor; few developers [71]have explored the option to date. At an April 3 hearing of [72]the board's Land Use Committee, lawmakers outlined the need for multiple reforms to make conversions economically feasible; Supervisor Dean Preston voiced concerns that even those reforms would not accommodate low-income housing. Many say San Francisco's Downtown is currently caught in a "doom loop" driven by economic knock-on effects of the pandemic, including an office vacancy rate [73]approaching 30% and trophy office towers changing hands at [74]deep discounts... The bill passed Tuesday is one of several legislative efforts to aid Downtown and the city's overall economy. Initiatives have included legislation to delay tax increases for retail, food service and other businesses hit hard by the pandemic, an "[75]Office Attraction Tax Credit" for new companies opening in the city and a program called "[76]Vacant to Vibrant," which provides grants to businesses which open "pop-up" shops and art spaces in Downtown's empty storefronts. apply tags__________ 171192946 story [77]Space [78]How The JWST Could Detect Signs of Life on Exoplanets [79](universetoday.com) [80]15 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday June 18, 2023 @06:09PM from the wanting-to-believe dept. Universe Today reports: The best hope for finding life on another world isn't listening for coded messages or traveling to distant stars, it's detecting the chemical signs of life in exoplanet atmospheres. This long hoped-for achievement is often thought to be beyond our current observatories, but a [81]new study argues that [82]the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) could pull it off. Most of the exoplanets we've discovered so far have been found by the transit method. This is where a planet passes in front of its star from our point of view. Even though we can't observe the planet directly, we can see the star's brightness dip by a fraction of a percent. As we watch stars over time, we can find a regular pattern of brightness dips, indicating the presence of a planet. The star dips in brightness because the planet blocks some of the starlight. But if the planet also has an atmosphere, there is a small amount of light that will pass through the atmosphere before reaching us. Depending on the chemical composition of the atmosphere, certain wavelengths will be absorbed, forming absorption spectra within the spectra of the starlight. We have long been able to identify atoms and molecules by their absorption and emission spectra, so in principle, we can determine a planet's atmospheric composition with the transit method... We have done this with a few exoplanets, such as detecting the presence of water and organic compounds, but these were done for large gas planets with thick atmospheres. We haven't been able to do this with rocky Earth-like worlds. Our telescopes just aren't sensitive enough for that. But this new study shows that the JWST could detect certain chemical biosignatures depending on their abundance in the atmosphere. Long-time Slashdot reader [83]Baron_Yam writes that "The signature I like to imagine detecting is actually industrial pollution. Chemicals that aren't created by any known geological process and indicate not just life, but life smart enough to have advanced technology (but stupid enough to pollute their own air supply)." apply tags__________ 171194272 story [84]AI [85]FIFA Used AI to Identify 300 People Harassing World Cup Players, Notified Law Enforcement [86](espn.com) [87]34 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday June 18, 2023 @05:09PM from the now-is-all dept. The Associated Press reports: A project [88]using artificial intelligence to track social media abuse aimed at players at the 2022 World Cup identified more than 300 people whose details are being given to law enforcement, FIFA said Sunday. The people made "abusive, discriminatory, or threatening posts [or] comments" on platforms like Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube, soccer's governing body said [89]in a report detailing efforts to protect players and officials during the tournament played in Qatar. The biggest spike in abuse was during the France-England quarterfinals game, said the report from a project created jointly by FIFA and the players' global union FIFPRO. It used AI to help identify and hide offensive social media posts... About 20 million posts and comments were scanned and more than 19,000 were flagged as abusive... The identities of the more than 300 people identified for posting abuse "will be shared with the relevant member associations and jurisdictional law authorities to facilitate real-world action being taken against offenders," FIFA said. "Discrimination is a criminal act. With the help of this tool, we are identifying the perpetrators and we are reporting them to the authorities so that they are punished for their actions," FIFA President Gianni Infantino said in a statement. "We also expect the social media platforms to accept their responsibilities and to support us in the fight against all forms of discrimination." FIFA and FIFPRO have extended the system for use at the Women's World Cup that starts next month in Australia and New Zealand. apply tags__________ 171194076 story [90]Power [91]California's First Solar-Powered Microgrid Neighborhood Has a Giant Community Battery [92](theverge.com) [93]58 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday June 18, 2023 @04:09PM from the power-plays dept. As part of a [94]series of articles on smart homes, the Verge visits an energy-efficient home in the southern California desert that's "[95]part of California's first planned smart, solar-powered residential microgrid community." A surprisingly small number of solar panels on the roof soak up the sun in the desert landscape... funneling power into the tightly designed building envelope. Here, a 13-kilowatt hour home battery sits beside a smart load panel that controls every electrical appliance in the home, from the hybrid electric heat-pump water heater and high-efficiency heat pump HVAC system — both Wi-Fi enabled to share data — to the light switches, EnergyStar fridge, and energy-efficient induction cooktop. Using software algorithms, the Schneider load center intelligently determines where to best draw power from — the SunPower solar panels, the battery, or the grid. It then makes recommendations the Conriques can use to set automations that change power sources or reduce energy use when prices and demand spike... The 43 new residences in [96]KB Home-built Shadow Mountain, which launched in November 2022, and the 176 more planned as part of two communities, [97]Durango and [98]Oak Shade, are all-electric, solar-powered smart homes. By next year they will be connected to a 2.3 megawatt-hour community battery, sending any excess energy their panels generate to the common power source and [99]creating a community microgrid. When the power goes down, the microgrid will kick in, isolating all 219 homes from the grid and keeping their essential functions up and running. The homes will draw first from their own battery (and potentially their EV) and then from the community battery. "When the system hits a potential steady state, they can ride a power outage for days, if not in perpetuity, with proper solar production," explains Brad Wills of Schneider Electric, manufacturers of the home's [100]smart load panel, the community's microgrid components, and the software that runs the system... Developed as a partnership between SunPower, KB Home, University of California, Irvine, Schneider Electric, Southern California Edison, Kia America, and the US Department of Energy, Shadow Mountain is designed to be a blueprint for how we can build better, smarter communities in the future... A recent [101]DOE study estimated that by 2030, grid-interactive efficient buildings like those at Shadow Mountain could save up to $18 billion per year in power system costs and cut 80 million tons of carbon emissions annually. The article describes how the community [102]helps the larger power grid: * They can send electricity back into the grid during periods of peak demand. * The local power company now also has the option to "island" the entire community off the grid in times of high demand. * The community "is also trialing high-output vehicle-to-home and vehicle-to-grid functions." apply tags__________ 171193670 story [103]Power [104]A Finnish Firm Thinks It Can Cut Industrial Carbon Emissions By a Third [105](economist.com) [106]52 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday June 18, 2023 @02:36PM from the going-green dept. The Ecoomist asks: How can we "green" the high-temperature chemical processes in industries like steelmaking or the production of chemical or cement. "Because it is tricky or impossible to produce such temperatures for some industrial processes using electricity alone, firms rely on fossil fuels." But [107]a Finnish engineering firm called Coolbrook thinks they have an answer: The easiest way to think about Coolbrook's system is as a gas turbine in reverse. A conventional gas turbine — as used in power stations or jet engines — burns fossil fuel to create a hot, high-pressure gas that spins rotor blades. That rotational energy can be used to run a thrust-generating fan (as in jet aircraft) or converted to electricity in a generator (as in a power station). The new system begins instead with an electric motor. The motor spins the turbine's rotors. Gas or liquid is then fed to the turbine. Once inside, the rotors accelerate the stuff to supersonic speeds, and then rapidly slow it again. The sudden deceleration transforms the kinetic energy contained in the accelerated gas or fluid into heat. If the motor is powered by green electricity, then no carbon dioxide is produced... Laboratory trials have shown that yields from the electrified process could be significantly higher than what can be obtained with fossil fuels. Assuming that everything goes according to plan, the firm will try producing heat for several other industrial processes... Joonas Rauramo, Coolbrook's boss, reckons his firm's technology could eliminate perhaps 30% of heavy-industrial emissions. And, he says, it can do so without needing to invent anything fundamentally new. "It is a known science," says Mr Rauramo. "It has just not been applied in exactly the way we are doing it." The article's subheading puts it succinctly. "Running a turbine backwards can produce green heat." Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader [108]SpzToid for sharing the article. apply tags__________ 171193256 story [109]AI [110]Is AI Making Silicon Valley Rich on Other People's Work? [111](mercurynews.com) [112]85 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday June 18, 2023 @01:34PM from the copying-rights dept. Slashdot reader [113]rtfa0987 spotted this [114]on the front page of the San Jose Mercury News. "Silicon Valley is poised once again to cash in on other people's products, making a data grab of unprecedented scale that has already spawned lawsuits and congressional hearings. Chatbots and other forms of generative artificial intelligence that burst onto the technology scene in recent months are fed vast amounts of material scraped from the internet — books, screenplays, research papers, news stories, photos, art, music, code and more — to produce answers, imagery or sound in response to user prompts... But a thorny, contentious and highly consequential issue has arisen: A great deal of the bots' fodder is copyrighted property... The new AI's intellectual-property problem goes beyond art into movies and television, photography, music, news media and computer coding. Critics worry that major players in tech, by inserting themselves between producers and consumers in commercial marketplaces, will suck out the money and remove financial incentives for producing TV scripts, artworks, books, movies, music, photography, news coverage and innovative software. "It could be catastrophic," said Danielle Coffey, CEO of the News/Media Alliance, which represents nearly 2,000 U.S. news publishers, including this news organization. "It could decimate our industry." The new technology, as happened with other Silicon Valley innovations, including internet-search, social media and food delivery, is catching on among consumers and businesses so quickly that it may become entrenched — and beloved by users — long before regulators and lawmakers gather the knowledge and political will to impose restraints and mitigate harms. "We may need legislation," said Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose, who as a member of the House Judiciary Committee heard [115]testimony on copyright and generative AI last month. "Content creators have rights and we need to figure out a way how those rights will be respected...." Furor over the content grabbing is surging. Photo-sales giant Getty is [116]also suing Stability AI. Striking Hollywood screenwriters last month raised concerns that movie studios will start using chatbot-written scripts fed on writers' earlier work. The record industry has lodged a complaint with federal authorities over copyrighted music being used to train AI. The article includes some unique perspectives: * There's a technical solution being proposed by the software engineer-CEO of Dazzle Labs, a startup building a platform for controlling personal data. The Mercury News summarizes it as "content producers could annotate their work with conditions for use that would have to be followed by companies crawling the web for AI fodder." * Santa Clara University law school professor Eric Goldman "believes the law favors use of copyrighted material for training generative AI. 'All works build upon precedent works. We are all free to take pieces of precedent works. What generative AI does is accelerate that process, but it's the same process. It's all part of an evolution of our society's storehouse of knowledge...." apply tags__________ 171184240 story [117]Space [118]Researchers Argue Earth Formed Much Faster Than Believed, Suggest More Planets Could Have Water [119](msn.com) [120]14 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday June 18, 2023 @12:34PM from the water-worlds dept. An anonymous reader quotes [121]this report from the Washington Post: In a [122]new study released in Nature this week, researchers state that Earth formed within just 3 million years. That's notably faster than previous estimates placing the timeline up to 100 million years.... "We can also predict that if other planets formed ... by the same mechanism, then the ingredients required for life such as water, should be present on other planets and other systems, so there's a greater chance that we have water worlds elsewhere in the galaxy," said Isaac Onyett, lead author of the study and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Copenhagen. The authors assert that this rapid genesis occurred through a theory called pebble accretion. The general idea, according to co-author and cosmochemist Martin Bizzarro, is that planets are born in a disk of dust and gas. When they reach a certain size, they rapidly attract those pebbles like a vacuum cleaner. Some of those pebbles are icy and could provide a water supply to Earth, thought of as [123]pebble snow. This would have led to an early version of our planet, known as proto-Earth, that is approximately half the size of our present-day planet. (Our current rendition of Earth likely formed after a larger impact about 100 million years later, which also led to the formation of our moon....) The team determined the time scale of Earth's formation by looking at silicon isotopes from more than 60 meteorites and planetary bodies in the vicinity of Earth, which represent the rubble leftover after planet formation... By analyzing the silicon compositions in samples of different ages, Onyett said they can piece together a time sequence of what was happening in the disk of dust before Earth formed. They found that, as the samples increased in age, the composition of the asteroids changed toward the composition of the cosmic dust that was being accumulated by Earth. "That's very strong evidence that this dust was also being swept up as it was drifting inwards towards the Sun," said Onyett. "It would have been swept up by Earth as it was growing by accretion." Birger Schmitz, an astrogeologist at Lund University who was not involved in the research, said these results are "very compelling" and could shift how we think about our planet's formation... Most importantly, he said the results show there is nothing special about our water-carrying planet. "It is just a very ordinary planet in our galaxy. This is important in our attempts to understand how common higher forms of life are in the universe." While scientists agree pebble accretion does explain the formation of gas-giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn, some still argue that rocky planets like Earth were instead formed [124]through larger and larger asteroid collisions... apply tags__________ 171189112 story [125]China [126]Cringely Predicts Moore's Law Will Continue -- Because of AI [127](cringely.com) [128]30 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday June 18, 2023 @11:34AM from the more-and-Moore dept. "I predict that Generative Artificial Intelligence is going to [129]go a long way toward keeping Moore's Law in force," writes long-time tech pundit Robert X. Cringely, "and the way this is going to happen says a lot about the chip business, global economics, and Artificial Intelligence, itself." The current el cheapo AI research frenzy is likely to subside as LLaMA ages into obsolescence and has to be replaced by something more expensive, putting Google, Microsoft and OpenAI back in control. Understand, too, that these big, established companies like the idea of LLMs costing so much to build because that makes it harder for startups to disrupt. It's a form of restraint of trade, though not illegal... [T]here is an opportunity for vertical LLMs trained on different data — real data from industries like medicine and auto mechanics. Whoever owns this data will own these markets. What will make these models both better and cheaper is they can be built from a LLaMA base because most of that data doesn't have to change over time... Bloomberg has [130]already done this for investment advice using its unique database of historical financial information. With an average of 50 billion nodes, these vertical models will cost only five percent as much to run as OpenAI's one billion node GPT-4... [I]t ought to be pretty simple to apply AI to chip design, building custom chip design models to iterate into existing simulators and refine new designs that actually have a pretty good chance of being novel. And who will be the first to leverage this chip AI? China... Look for fabless AI chip startups to spring-up around Chinese universities and for the Chinese Communist Party to put lots of money into this very cost-effective work. Because even if it's used just to slim-down and improve existing designs, that's another generation of chips China might otherwise not have had at all. apply tags__________ 171190610 story [131]Social Networks [132]Is Reddit Dying? [133](eff.org) [134]202 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday June 18, 2023 @10:33AM from the long-goodbye dept. "Compared to the website's average daily volume over the past month, the 52,121,649 visits Reddit saw on June 13th represented a 6.6 percent drop..." [135]reports Engadget (citing data provided by internet analytics firm Similarweb). [A]s [136]many subreddits continue to protest the company's plans and its leadership contemplates policy changes that could change its relationship with moderators, the platform could see a slow but gradual decline in daily active users. That's unlikely to bode well for Reddit ahead of its planned IPO and beyond. In fact, the Financial Times now reports that Reddit "acknowledged that [137]several advertisers had postponed certain premium ad campaigns in order to wait for the blackouts to pass." But they also got this dire prediction from a historian who helps moderate the subreddit "r/Askhistorians" (with 1.8 million subscribers). "If they refuse to budge in any way I do not see Reddit surviving as it currently exists. That's the kind of fire I think they're playing with." More people had the same same thought. The Reddit protests drew this response earlier this week [138]from EFF's associate director of community organizing: This tension between these communities and their host have, again, fueled more interest in [139]the Fediverse as a [140]decentralized refuge... Unfortunately, discussions of Reddit-like fediverse services [141]Lemmy and [142]Kbin on Reddit were colored by paranoia after the company [143]banned users and subreddits related to these projects (reportedly due to "spam"). While these accounts and subreddits have been reinstated, the potential for censorship around such projects has made a Reddit exodus feel more urgently necessary... Saturday the EFF official reiterated their concerns when Wired asked: [144]does this really signal the death of Reddit? "I can't see it as anything but that... [I]t's not a big collapse when a social media website starts to die, but it is a slow attrition unless they change their course. The longer they stay in their position, the more loss of users and content they're going to face." Wired even heard a thought-provoking idea from Amy Bruckman, a regents' professor/senior associate chair at the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. Bruckman "advocates for public funding of a nonprofit version of something akin to Reddit." Meanwhile, hundreds of people are now placing bets on whether Reddit will backtrack on its new upcoming API pricing — or oust CEO Steve Huffman — [145]according to Insider, citing reports from online betting company BetUS. CEO Huffman's complaint that the moderators were ignoring the wishes of Reddit's users led to a funny counter-response, [146]according to the Verge. After asking users to vote on whether to end the protest, two forums saw overwhelming support instead for the only offered alternative: the subreddits "now only allow posts about comedian and Last Week Tonight host John Oliver." Both r/pics (more than 30 million subscribers) and r/gifs (more than 21 million subscribers) offered two options to users to vote on... The results were conclusive: r/pics: return to normal, -2,329 votes; "only allow images of John Oliver looking sexy," 37,331 votes. r/gifs: return to normal, -1,851 votes; only feature GIFs of John Oliver, 13,696 votes... On Twitter, John Oliver encouraged the subreddits — and even gave them some fodder. "Dear Reddit, excellent work," [147]he wrote to kick off a thread that included several [148]ridiculous [149]pictures. A spokesperson for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver didn't immediately reply to a request for comment. apply tags__________ 171184552 story [150]IT [151]Working-from-Home May Start an Office Real Estate Crisis - But Banks May Adapt [152](msn.com) [153]100 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday June 18, 2023 @07:34AM from the returns-on-offices dept. [154]The Washington Post reports that "Since the pandemic, employers — particularly in major cities — have been struggling to get their [155]workers to return to the office, while others have given up and allowed workers to go fully remote. "That trend is finally starting to catch up with the owners of office buildings in the form of rising vacancy rates and declining property values." Earlier this month, real estate data provider Trepp [156]reported that an estimated $270 billion in commercial bank loans are coming due in 2023 — and warned of the potential for defaults. Office delinquencies spiked in May, signaling a "tipping point," according to Manus Clancy, senior managing director at Trepp. Asked about commercial real estate concerns in a [157]television appearance on Wednesday, [U.S.] Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen said she thinks banks are "broadly preparing for some restructuring and difficulties going ahead...." "If office and retail owners are having trouble generating rental income because people just aren't going into the office and shopping, then it increases the odds that they aren't going to be able to pay back those loans in timely way," said Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody's Analytics. "That means losses will start to mount on those loans. And because the banking and financial system more broadly is already struggling with lots of other problems ... there's going to be more banking failures." Despite the public debate over return-to-office mandates at major companies, experts say office occupancy will never return to the levels experienced before 2020. In February, workplace data company Kastle Systems estimated that [158]half of workers in the United States had returned, but that figure has stagnated since... Still, many experts say the worst can still be avoided. The issues have been known for a while, giving lenders plenty of time to consider what to do. Banks can always renegotiate the terms of their loans to landlords... Although cities themselves could be in trouble because of property taxes and budget shortfalls, the financial system as a whole is more protected, said Brookings Institution fellow Tracy Hadden Loh, who researches real estate and cities. "It's in no one's interest to have them all fall into foreclosure at once, because that could destabilize the banking system," she said. "So banks will take what they can get in terms of payment and work through this." apply tags__________ 171190174 story [159]Businesses [160]What Happens When You Ask Alexa if Amazon is a Monopoly? [161](stltoday.com) [162]39 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday June 18, 2023 @03:34AM from the speak-no-evil dept. An anonymous reader [163]shared this report from Bloomberg: Ask Amazon's digital assistant, "Hey, Alexa, is Amazon a monopoly?" and it will profess ignorance. "Hmm, I don't know that one," it answers. But ask about any of the other tech giants' business practices, and it's ready to critique them. Surfacing answers from across the internet, Alexa describes Apple as an "oligopoly" and cites Alphabet's Google as violating privacy rights, according to Bloomberg News tests of the software on three devices.... [Alexa] won't label Amazon a monopoly, but it tends to respond in the affirmative when asked the same question about Google, Meta's Facebook, Microsoft and Walmart. When Alexa is asked if Amazon has broken antitrust law, it says, "I don't have an answer to the question I just heard." Google's Assistant and Apple's Siri, Alexa's two closest competitors, each cite news stories on government antitrust lawsuits against their companies. Siri, for the most part, offers up criticisms of the iPhone maker. But it evades at least one question about Apple's power. When asked whether Apple is a monopoly, Siri often replies, "I can't answer that, but Apple.com should be able to...." Alexa also cites alleged privacy lapses by its rivals, bringing up a Facebook privacy settlement with the FTC and allegations that Apple's finger-scanning technology violates constitutional rights. When users ask whether Amazon violates users' privacy, Alexa sticks up for its safeguards: "Amazon builds multiple layers of privacy protections into your Alexa experience." It also links to an Amazon website with more information about Alexa's privacy settings. apply tags__________ [164]« Newer [165]Older » Slashdot Top Deals Slashdot Top Deals [166]Slashdot Deals Slashdot Poll Are you currently using AI tools for programming? (*) Yes ( ) No ( ) I don't do any programming (BUTTON) vote now [167]Read the 6 comments | 1710 votes Looks like someone has already voted from this IP. If you would like to vote please login and try again. 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