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F.B.I. Revokes Security Clearances of 3 Agents Over Jan. 6 Issues - The New York Times
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1 year ago
US news

F.B.I. Revokes Security Clearances of 3 Agents Over Jan. 6 Issues

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has revoked the security clearances of three agents who either took part in the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, or later expressed views about it that placed into question their allegiance to the United States, the bureau said on Wednesday in a letter to congressional investigators.
AI ‘Cheating’ Is More Bewildering Than Professors Imagined - The Atlantic
The Atlantic
1 year ago
Tech industry

I Have No Idea If My Students Are 'Cheating' With AI

There's an arms race on campus, and professors are losing.One-hundred percent AI.That's what the software concluded about a student's paper.One of the professors in the academic program I direct had come across this finding and asked me what to do with it.Then another one saw the same result- 100 percent AI-for a different paper by that student, and also wondered: What does this mean?
AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are | Naomi Klein | The Guardian
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1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

AI machines aren't hallucinating'. But their makers are | Naomi Klein

Inside the many debates swirling around the rapid rollout of so-called artificial intelligence, there is a relatively obscure skirmish focused on the choice of the word hallucinate.This is the term that architects and boosters of generative AI have settled on to characterize responses served up by chatbots that are wholly manufactured, or flat-out wrong.
RT @maddow: “'I feel like I’m beating up my daughter,' Dr. Jessen remarked as the demonstration proceeded.”
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1 year ago
World politics

Ex-C.I.A. Psychologist Re-enacts Interrogation Techniques for Guantanamo Court

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba In court this week, a psychologist who waterboarded prisoners for the Central Intelligence Agency rolled up a towel, wrapped it around the neck of a criminal defense lawyer, and slowly pulled the lawyer toward him and up on her toes a dramatic re-enactment of practices used on a Saudi detainee in the war on terrorism.
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