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tdietterich.bsky.social
Safe and robust AI/ML, computational sustainability. Former President AAAI and IMLS. Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Oregon State University. https://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~tgd/
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The concept of "AGI" (a system that can match or exceed human performance across all tasks) shares all of the defects of the Turing Test. 1/

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

@marketplace.org Your series on Utah county was outstanding. It reminded me of my teen-age years living outside Chicago where the suburbs were growing at a ferocious rate. I had a couple of questions:

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

UX Designers: having problems in your role? Learn JavaScript. It will make your old problems seem like no big deal.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

You have to add up all the red bars and stack them on top of each other to pay for the green bar.

submitted 2 days ago • 50 comments

Helen Chu is the hero who revealed that—contra daily briefings from the White House—COVID was spreading widely in the community in the US by late February 2020..

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Find your closest rally on Saturday and go. You can tell your kids where you were on the other side of this. Outnumber him everywhere. www.nokings.org#map

submitted 4 days ago • 68 comments

"Slop contagion": Anything that becomes cheap to do devalues everything that is similar to it.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Great idea 💡

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DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

submitted 5 days ago • 114 comments

Sharing this piece from 2020 with my LA reporter friends. Now is a good time to be asking about weapons use policies for less lethal munitions. My good friend @jlevinson.bsky.social did so back during Portland's big protests and there were plenty of misuses happening.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Nice piece from @andyjayhawk.bsky.social contextualizing the images of burning Waymos in LA www.theverge.com/google-waymo...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Here’s the “Presidential Memorandum”: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... There’s no Insurrection Act invocation; Trump is federalizing 2000 CA Nat’l Guard personnel only to “protect federal functions.” *Without* invoking the Insurrection Act, anything more would violate the Posse Comitatus Act.

submitted 7 days ago • 164 comments

Great to see this effort!

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments