@RealChrisYEG

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@RealChrisYEG1 year ago
In all honesty: I have empathy for the tech brothers. Albeit: they pushed the rest of us into peril and distraught relationships - I can admire the pressure they exerted over us and the crisis' that were manufactured in order to procure a strong, resilient and creative economy and the next generation proceeding that of mine, and theirs as well.
from Portland Mercury
1 year ago
Portland

Not Sorry for You, Tech Bro

I didn't hear a single peep of sympathy when your industry's boom made life unaffordable for the rest of us, although you and your bros did tell us to learn to code.No one who you looked down your nose at gives a fuck if you have to give up your luxury lifestyle, and capitalism comes for us all eventually.Hit me up when you're ready to accept some humility and we can work together to break the system that has now fucked us both.
 @RealChrisYEG1 year ago
I wish this article was a lot longer. That's wonderful, however. I know that anybody who has a high standard for their ability to procure a substantial amount of social credit will be able to rectify, and produce what is required of the influence of which she also procures unto young athletes, women of all races and genders; of ages as well - and somehow, someway, bring; or rather - unite the entirety of the female global community: in becoming their true selves, and to begin telling the truth to not only themselves, but one another and the rest of society. So: that we may see a better tomorrow, a better today and a better yesterday even: knowing that we were all able and capable of changing the future for the best, by ourselves and for ourselves. God bless, and amen.
from SLAM
1 year ago
National Basketball Association

Future Hall-of-Famer Maya Moore Officially Retires From Basketball | WSLAM

Moore is eligible for Hall of Fame induction next year.
 @RealChrisYEG1 year ago
Undeserved, eh? Perhaps that term is what gives people mental health issues in the first place. Period.
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from www.vice.com
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

Startup Uses AI Chatbot to Provide Mental Health Counseling and Then Realizes It 'Feels Weird'

Messages composed by AI (and supervised by humans) were rated significantly higher than those written by humans on their own (p < .001).
Response times went down 50%, to well under a minute [but] once people learned the messages were co-created by a machine, it didn't work.
Simulated empathy feels weird, empty.
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In his video demo that he posted in a follow-up Tweet, Morris shows himself engaging with the Koko bot on Discord, where he asks GPT-3 to respond to a negative post someone wrote about themselves having a hard time.
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It's a very short post, and yet, the AI on its own in a matter of seconds wrote a really nice, articulate response here, Morris said in the video.
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Yet, he said, when people learned that the messages were written with an AI, they felt disturbed by the simulated empathy.
Koko uses Discord to provide peer-to-peer support to people experiencing mental health crises and those seeking counseling.
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In a test done by Motherboard, a chatbot asks you if you're seeking help with "Dating, Friendships, Work, School, Family, Eating Disorders, LGBTQ+, Discrimination, or Other," asks you to write down what your problem is, tag your "most negative thought" about the problem, and then sends that information off to someone else on the Koko platform.
In the meantime, you are requested to provide help to other people going through a crisis; in our test, we were asked to choose from four responses to a person who said they were having trouble loving themselves: "You're NOT a loser; I've been there; Sorry to hear this :(; Other," and to personalize the message with a few additional sentences.
On the Discord, Koko promises that it "connects you with real people who truly get you.
Not therapists, not counselors, just people like you."
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Emily M. Bender, a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington, told Motherboard that trusting AI to treat mental health patients has a great potential for harm.
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They do not have empathy, nor any understanding of the language they producing, nor any understanding of the situation they are in.
But the text they produce sounds plausible and so people are likely to assign meaning to it.
To throw something like that into sensitive situations is to take unknown risks.
A key question to ask is: Who is accountable if the AI makes harmful suggestions?
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After the initial backlash, Morris posted updates to Twitter and told Motherboard, Users were in fact told the messages were co-written by humans and machines from the start.
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It's seems people misinterpreted this line: when they realized the messages were a bot,' Morris said.
This was not stated clearly.
Users were in fact told the messages were co-written by humans and machines from the start.
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Morris also told Motherboard and tweeted that this experiment is exempt from informed consent, which would require the company to provide each participant with a written document regarding the possible risks and benefits of the experiment, in order to decide if they want to participate.
He claimed that Koko didn't use any personal information and has no plan to publish the study publicly, which would exempt the experiment from needing informed consent.
This suggests that the experiment did not receive any formal approval process and was not overseen by an Institutional Review Board (IRB), which is what is required for all research experiments that involve human subjects and access to identifiable private information.
"Every individual has to provide consent when using the service.
If it were a university study (which it's not), this would fall under an exempt' category of research," he said.
"This imposed no further risk to users, no deception, and we don't collect any personally identifiable information or protected health information (no email, phone number, ip, username, etc).
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The fact that the system is good at formulating routine responses about mental health questions isn't surprising when we realize it's drawing on many such responses formulated in the past by therapists and counsellors and available on the web.
 @RealChrisYEG1 year ago
Interesting read. I would have assumed that Dame was averaging a tad bit more from downtown given that he attempts so many three-point shots during gameplay. Damian is a hard working employee of the NBA and I doubt that given the circumstances of the sports environment being that it has been scandalized for providing 'entertainment' rather than 'competition,' - Damian stands out and puts fans on their feet; even more so than when Curry attempts a three-point - or completes one for that matter.
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from www.slamonline.com
1 year ago
National Basketball Association

WATCH: Damian Lillard Become Portland's All-Time Scoring Leader | SLAM

Damian Lillard has cemented himself as perhaps the greatest Portland Trail Blazer of all time after passing Hall of Famer Clyde Drexler to become the all-time scoring leader in franchise history.
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By the time the final buzzer sounded, Lillard had dropped 28 points on 9-17 shooting from the field, 6-12 from beyond the arc, three rebounds, and six assists.
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The six-time All-Star is averaging 28.3 points, 3.8 rebounds, and 7.0 assists per game on 45.4 percent shooting from the field and 40.4 percent from downtown.
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