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How Police Exploited the Capitol Riot’s Digital Records

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The group of well-dressed young men who gathered on the outskirts of Baltimore on the night of 5 January 2021 hardly looked like extremists. One of these warrants, served on Google and covering the interior of the Capitol, showed that a device associated with the Gmail account in question entered the Senate Wing door at 2:18 p.m.

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Your Life As A Digital Ghost

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And I think this is what we’ll talk about a little bit in today’s conversation in the sense that there’s no real way to know where data go once they’re created about you. Do they need a different classification for legal, political, and social purposes? Wong: It was a great conversation. So effectively they are immortal.

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Finding The Wisest Ways To Global AI Regulation

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The heads of OpenAI and Google have both openly discussed the need for regulations. It ensures that we have a more diverse group of people at the table, which is something I’m very passionate about. When I look at this, though, I do worry about this polarization of these sides and our inability to have a genuine, true conversation.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

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Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. At that point, we expect the aftermarket companies prices to have come down sufficiently so that their conversions will be attractive to owners of hundreds of thousands of hybrids already on the road. So far, most start as hybrids.

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EleutherAI: When OpenAI Isn’t Open Enough

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The group take their name from the ancient Greek word for liberty, eleutheria.) We’re basically a bunch of weirdos hanging out in a chat room doing research for fun,” says Connor Leahy, one of the group’s founders. For GPT-NeoX-20B, the group received help from CoreWeave, a specialized cloud-services provider for GPU-based workloads.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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So Stillwell went inside Atwood’s and used his phone to record his conversation with Libby and another man, Duane Maki. As such, there are many reasons to be concerned about its use in the criminal legal system. Others said it sounded like Nate Libby, a dockside worker. Stillwell asked if they had heard the call. “I I heard it.

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Meta’s Challenge to OpenAI—Give Away a Massive Language Model

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Models like OpenAI’s GPT-3 can generate remarkably fluid and coherent text in just about any format or style: They can write convincing news articles, legal summaries, poems, and advertising copy, or hold up their end of conversation as customer service chatbots or video game characters.