I'm a bit surprised that UK public/media opinion has run so unanimously against Letby, given the recency of the Post Office Horizon scandal, where hundreds of subpostmasters were convicted for fraud and theft, all "proven" by accounting software that sucked and effectively made the whole thing up.
The ITV documentary just came out a couple months ago, but it's dragged on for years, and seems like a clear warning against the combination of prosecutorial zeal centering on flimsy data interpretation.
“The U.K. has no particular equivalent to The New Yorker, or any of The New Yorker’s many American peers--no outlet dedicated to long-form, “literary” investigative journalism and original reporting.“
I think part of the reason for this is the dominance of BBC Radio 4 - it operates in a similar place in British culture to the New Yorker in the US. A lot of pieces that could have been a magazine longread get commissioned as a half-hour or hour long radio documentary instead.
When I worked for google in the early '10s, Sundar said he aspired to turn Google into "the Star Trek computer." Just say "Computer" and then ask it anything or ask it to do something, and it would just do it.
And that's fine if you can trust it to have the right answer to questions that shouldn't have lots of answers. What is the population of Poland?
But most questions aren't like this, they have a range of possible answers and perspectives. The internet has already trapped us into filter bubbles that limit our information possibilities to sources we'll most likely find appealing. Imagine if a company's AI doesn't even let you see those, but just tells you definitively what the world is.
I don't know how it compares to the US, but British media has gotten dramatically worse in the last 15 years - massively reduced funding for journalism across the board, local media all but wiped out, most remotely good or useful aspects severely atrophied. Serious investigative journalism, which once even the worst rags put some effort into, has been the biggest casualty of that die-back.
I'm a bit surprised that UK public/media opinion has run so unanimously against Letby, given the recency of the Post Office Horizon scandal, where hundreds of subpostmasters were convicted for fraud and theft, all "proven" by accounting software that sucked and effectively made the whole thing up.
The ITV documentary just came out a couple months ago, but it's dragged on for years, and seems like a clear warning against the combination of prosecutorial zeal centering on flimsy data interpretation.
Much like Seinfeld, we have a strict policy of "no hugging, no learning"
“The U.K. has no particular equivalent to The New Yorker, or any of The New Yorker’s many American peers--no outlet dedicated to long-form, “literary” investigative journalism and original reporting.“
I think part of the reason for this is the dominance of BBC Radio 4 - it operates in a similar place in British culture to the New Yorker in the US. A lot of pieces that could have been a magazine longread get commissioned as a half-hour or hour long radio documentary instead.
When I worked for google in the early '10s, Sundar said he aspired to turn Google into "the Star Trek computer." Just say "Computer" and then ask it anything or ask it to do something, and it would just do it.
And that's fine if you can trust it to have the right answer to questions that shouldn't have lots of answers. What is the population of Poland?
But most questions aren't like this, they have a range of possible answers and perspectives. The internet has already trapped us into filter bubbles that limit our information possibilities to sources we'll most likely find appealing. Imagine if a company's AI doesn't even let you see those, but just tells you definitively what the world is.
I don't know how it compares to the US, but British media has gotten dramatically worse in the last 15 years - massively reduced funding for journalism across the board, local media all but wiped out, most remotely good or useful aspects severely atrophied. Serious investigative journalism, which once even the worst rags put some effort into, has been the biggest casualty of that die-back.
Ha, you nailed it:
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/scarlett-johansson-shocked-angered-openai-voice-rcna153180
Wanted a Talkboy so fucking bad after seeing HA2