Articles of Distraction

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W belly taps Obama.

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A woman was scammed out of $800K+ by someone posing as Brad Pitt

Using edited pics and AI vids, he convinced her to divorce her husband, send money for a fake kidney surgery, and believe his accounts were frozen due to Angelina Jolie

She realized it was fake when Pitt was on the news with a new girlfriend.



https://www.bfmtv.com/societe/il-savait-...30192.html

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Gay country star Orville Peck is set to make his Broadway debut, in hit musical Cabaret.

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Carrie Underwood upset that her stage at the inauguration wasn't bigger.

Oh, boo-hoo.

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Gay country star Orville Peck is set to make his Broadway debut, in hit musical Cabaret.

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‘Orville Peck’ might just be the best name imaginable for a gay country music star.

Boru

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Is she owning the "anti-libs" or what?

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When AI Thinks It Will Lose, It Sometimes Cheats, Study Finds

Complex games like chess and Go have long been used to test AI models’ capabilities. But while IBM’s Deep Blue defeated reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov in the 1990s by playing by the rules, today’s advanced AI models like OpenAI’s o1-preview are less scrupulous. When sensing defeat in a match against a skilled chess bot, they don’t always concede, instead sometimes opting to cheat by hacking their opponent so that the bot automatically forfeits the game. That is the finding of a new study from Palisade Research, shared exclusively with TIME ahead of its publication on Feb. 19, which evaluated seven state-of-the-art AI models for their propensity to hack. While slightly older AI models like OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.5 needed to be prompted by researchers to attempt such tricks, o1-preview and DeepSeek R1 pursued the exploit on their own, indicating that AI systems may develop deceptive or manipulative strategies without explicit instruction.

The models’ enhanced ability to discover and exploit cybersecurity loopholes may be a direct result of powerful new innovations in AI training, according to the researchers. The o1-preview and R1 AI systems are among the first language models to use large-scale reinforcement learning, a technique that teaches AI not merely to mimic human language by predicting the next word, but to reason through problems using trial and error. It’s an approach that has seen AI progress rapidly in recent months, shattering previous benchmarks in mathematics and computer coding. But the study reveals a concerning trend: as these AI systems learn to problem-solve, they sometimes discover questionable shortcuts and unintended workarounds that their creators never anticipated, says Jeffrey Ladish, executive director at Palisade Research and one of the authors of the study. “As you train models and reinforce them for solving difficult challenges, you train them to be relentless,” he adds.

That could be bad news for AI safety more broadly. Large-scale reinforcement learning is already being used to train AI agents: systems that can handle complex real-world tasks like scheduling appointments or making purchases on your behalf. While cheating at a game of chess may seem trivial, as agents get released into the real world, such determined pursuit of goals could foster unintended and potentially harmful behaviours. Consider the task of booking dinner reservations: faced with a full restaurant, an AI assistant might exploit weaknesses in the booking system to displace other diners. Perhaps more worryingly, as these systems exceed human abilities in key areas, like computer coding—where OpenAI’s newest o3 model now scores equivalent to 197th in the world competing against the brightest human programmers— they might begin to simply outmaneuver human efforts to control their actions. “This [behaviour] is cute now, but [it] becomes much less cute once you have systems that are as smart as us, or smarter, in strategically relevant domains,” Ladish says.

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The villagers of Uummannaq were given just four days to leave their homes.

It was the spring of 1953, the Cold War was nearing its peak and the United States had set its sights on this remote Greenlandic settlement more than 700 miles north of the Arctic Circle. The broad plain at the edge of the ice sheet was viewed as the ideal spot for an expanded Air Force base to defend against Soviet missiles. But the 116 civilians living nearby would have to go.

At the behest of the Danish government, which then ruled Greenland as a colony, the villagers hastily packed their belongings and bade farewell to the land where their ancestors were buried. They traveled by dog sled to a rocky peninsula 80 miles north, where they spent months living in tents while waiting for a new town, called Qaanaaq, to be built.

“The people who remember it, they have something bad inside them,” Toku Oshima, a community leader in Qaanaaq, told Washington Post journalists who visited the town in 2023. “They still hurt.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-e...ory-vance/

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