How AI Tokens Challenge Broadband Economics
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Listen: https://ift.tt/JQGIPcO In this bonus episode of The Vergecast, Senior Reviewer Victoria Song sits down with a bunch of Verge staffers to talk about how they use AI tools in their everyday lives. Not all of it went smoothly —… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/xwIyUJO This week on The Vergecast, we enter the Jen-era of Hot Girl Vergecast Summer, with a deep dive into the business of the smart home. The Verge’s smart home reviewer, Jennifer Pattison Tuohy (aka Jen), chats with Ken Fairbanks, a longtime… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/wG360ZF What if the energy transition isn't a race, but a steady march toward the end of fossil fuel usage? Do we need to move more like the tortoise, and less like the hare? And in a world of… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/jDs5h3u Today’s episode in Politics on Trial is about three trials that took place over two months in the late spring of 1895 that brought about the destruction of Oscar Wilde. Why did Wilde trigger his own doom by… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/gAXjyZW Most people are still planning careers like it's 1995. But time itself has compressed. ChatGPT reached 100 million users in eight weeks. The Ford Model T took 70 years to hit the same milestone. Today I'm joined by… more ›
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Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output; these are often called “AI hallucinations”. We argue… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/0Q7efTG In a paper released earlier this year, three academics from the University of Glasgow classified ChatGPT's outputs not as "lies," but as "BS" – as defined by philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt in "on BS" (and yes I'm censoring… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/CulhG9P Ian Krietzberg joins guest host Julia Ioffe to discuss Sam Altman’s latest gambit: offering ChatGPT Enterprise to U.S. government agencies for next to nothing, in hopes of building muscle memory inside the government and promoting the widespread adoption… more ›