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The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has moved forward with regulations establishing a smartphone-based national digital ID and tracking system, disregarding objections from organizations like the Identity Project. These new rules are based on the REAL-ID Act of 2005 and set the standards for how states will issue digital versions of driver’s licenses or ID cards, which will be accepted by the TSA and other federal agencies for certain official purposes. However, these rules do not extend to airline travel, where no ID is legally required, despite the TSA’s misleading statements to the contrary. Under the TSA’s new regulations, digital IDs can only be issued to individuals who already possess a physical driver’s license or state-issued ID card. Additionally, individuals are still obligated by state laws to carry their physical ID while driving, even if they have a digital ID on their smartphone.  This shift is not primarily about improving driver’s license technology,

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"The past 3 years of work in NLP [Natural Language Processing] have been characterized by the development and deployment of ever larger language models, especially for English.  "BERT, its variants, GPT-2/3, and others, most recently Switch-C, have pushed the boundaries of the possible both through architectural innovations and through sheer size.  "Using these pretrained models and the methodology of fine-tuning them for specific tasks, researchers have extended the state of the art on a wide array of tasks as measured by leaderboards on specific benchmarks for English.  "We provide recommendations including  Weighing the environmental and financial costs first,  Investing resources into curating and carefully documenting datasets rather than ingesting everything on the web,  Carrying out pre-development exercises evaluating how the planned approach fits into research and development goals and supports stakeholder values, and  Encouraging research directions beyond

"A Shoggoth is a perfect metaphor for AIs because no one knows what Shoggoths are.   "So, everyone can agree that 'AI is a Shoggoth ' means that AI is the thing that they already think AI is. (Apologies to the readers who propelled At the Mountains of Madness to the 776,464th place on Amazon’s best-selling list.)  In particular, Farrell and Shalizi call markets and democracies 'Shoggoths.'  "Wikipedia says that 'Cthulhu Mythos media ​​most commonly portray shoggoths as intelligent to some degree, but deal with problems using only their great size and strength': a description that almost seems lifted from the ' Stochastic Parrots ' paper. "Scott Alexander describes how the metaphors of Agent, Genie, or Oracle are not a good match for (non fine-tuned / RLHF’ed) language models like GPT-3. Rather they are best captured as what Janus called a Simulator and Scott  [Alexander] calls 'an unmasked Shoggoth.'  "In both the marke

 

Plans by Mark Zuckerberg's Meta to build an AI data centre in the US that runs on nuclear power were thwarted in part because a rare species of bee was discovered on land earmarked for the project, according to people familiar with the matter. Zuckerberg had planned to strike a deal with an existing nuclear power plant operator to provide emissions-free electricity for a new data centre supporting his artificial intelligence ambitions. However, the potential deal faced multiple complications including environmental and regulatory challenges , these people said. The discovery of the rare bee species on a location next to the plant where the data centre was to be built would have complicated the project, Zuckerberg told a Meta all-hands meeting last week, according to two people familiar with the meeting.

Google said while it was not clear whether Google Maps was involved in the incident, it had also made improvements so similar incidents did not occur in future. It said its teams were working on improvements to the timing of audio to provide enhanced guidance in situations such as those in this case. A spokesperson said: "This will involve an amended audio prompt as a driver approaches a junction where they would cross an overpass —'after the overpass, turn right'. "We hope that this will provide clearer guidance for drivers and help reduce the risk that they make an incorrect turn." TomTom recommended users updated their systems after it recently implemented additional safeguards to "limit drivers’ confusion where possible". It said this had been done by timing the verbal commands closer to the actual exit, and after passing the off-slip road. 

Mr. Benford [BoE’s Chief Data Officer] stressed the need for AI governance to ensure an ethical, safe, and effective use of AI.   Underscoring the significance of data to AI solutions, he advocated that the new wave of AI solutions is a reason to double down on strengthening data foundations.   In particular, the BoE is broadening the scope of its data governance framework to better address unstructured data. In addition to data governance, the BoE is working towards AI literacy for everyone at the BoE and AI fluency for its expert data professionals. The BoE is developing its use of AI through a series of targeted experiments which it is using to build its AI strategy. 

Eukaryotes invented organization, if we use the literal definition of “organize”: to be furnished with organs.   Inside a eukaryotic cell are self-contained, membrane-bound bundles that perform special functions, called organelles.   All eukaryotic cells —animal, plant, fungus or protist —have a nucleus that encloses and protects DNA.  Nearly all of them have mitochondria, which produce energy to fuel biochemical reactions. Any eukaryotic lineages that lack mitochondria used to have them and then lost them sometime in evolutionary history.  And across the evolutionary tree, different eukaryotes have evolved or procured additional organelles that  Assemble proteins,  Store water,  Turn sunlight into energy,  Digest biomolecules,  Get rid of waste, and more.  If prokaryotes are a loose pile of papers on the floor, eukaryotes are a sophisticated filing system that binds pages into packets and labels them.  “They’ve got the endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, peroxisomes, lysosomes, va