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Sam Altman’s Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Machine Learning Concepts

Sam Altman’s Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Machine Learning Concepts

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO and the public face of ChatGPT, has carved out an image for himself as one of the preeminent AI whisperers of our age, whose influence supposedly extends to the White House on the strength of his ideas alone. Or at least that’s the image he’s managed to cultivate. A new exposé in the New Yorker paints a different portrait, and it’s substantially more vexing. Drawing on interviews with numerous OpenAI insiders who worked with Altman, the article portrays the CEO not as a technical wiz, but as a skilled manipulator — and one with a surprisingly shallow grasp of the AI systems his company is building. According to numerous engineers interviewed for the article, Altman lacks experience in both programming and in machine learning — a shortage of expertise that becomes obvious when the CEO mixes up basic AI terms. It’s important to note that Altman dropped out of a Stanford computer science program after …

Basic Instinct Reboot Could Be Directed By Emerald Fennell, Writer Suggests

Basic Instinct Reboot Could Be Directed By Emerald Fennell, Writer Suggests

Published by Sam Flores

Emerald Fennell UPDATE: Emerald Fennell denies Basic Instinct reboot rumours. It looks like we know what Emerald Fennell is cooking up as her next project to follow Wuthering Heights. The British filmmaker is currently in talks to helm a reboot of Basic Instinct, screenwriter Joe Eszterhas teased during a new interview with The Guardian. Joe – who penned the script of the original Basic Instinct, as well as the likes of Flashdance and Showgirls – explained he’s almost done with writing a new spin on the original 1992 erotic romance. He claimed: “The producers are negotiating with a really interesting director – a Brit, Emerald Fennell – who did Promising Young Woman and Wuthering Heights.” “Her sensibility is exactly right,” Joe continued. “She’s someone who is not afraid of controversy and sexuality. So I’m thrilled by that. I hope it works out.” After working both behind and in front of the camera on screen, Emerald made her feature-length directing debut in 2020 with Promising Young Woman, which was nominated for five Oscars and won one …

11 Basic Life Lessons Most Parents Completely Forget To Teach Their Kids

11 Basic Life Lessons Most Parents Completely Forget To Teach Their Kids

Published by Jenni Sidey

Parents do not want to set their children up for failure. They want to give them all the knowledge they can to move forward in life. No matter how hard they try, there will still be some things that they forget to teach. If school doesn’t cover it, these kids might be entering the world without some basic life lessons. I remember when I was in school. I never learned anything about finances. When I was thrown into the world as an adult and had to balance my bank account, I was lost. The first overdraft fee I experienced rocked my world. And don’t get me started on taxes! These are things no one taught me, even though my parents meant well and tried to check every box. Some parents also forget to teach their children life skills like resilience and emotional regulation. While they mean well, these things can fall through the cracks. These are 11 basic life lessons most parents completely forget to teach their kids 1. Budgeting digitalskillet from Getty Images Signature …

11 Basic Manners That People Today Didn’t Learn Or Don’t Care About

11 Basic Manners That People Today Didn’t Learn Or Don’t Care About

Published by Jenni Sidey

In our often status-driven, convenience-oriented, selfish modern society, many people are noticing a lack of basic manners that for some reason people today didn’t learn or don’t care about. And it reveals quite a lot about not only their upbringing, but who they are as a person. 1. Respecting your elders PeopleImages | Shutterstock In theory, respecting your elders and people with life experiences that you lack is a great idea. However, many younger people today are breaking down this norm in practice. Respect is a two-way street, and young people being intentional about mental health and boundaries push back against the idea that they should have to tolerate misbehavior and offer respect to someone who mistreats them. We could all use a little more grace and love in all of our interactions, and while that doesn’t mean tolerating someone toxic, it could mean being willing to offer respect and create space in your best interest. RELATED: 10 Phrases People Use When They Weren’t Raised With Good Manners 2. Saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ PeopleImages …

What 122 Universal Basic Income Experiments Actually Show

What 122 Universal Basic Income Experiments Actually Show

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authroed by Vance Ginn via the Daily Economy, Artificial intelligence has become the latest excuse for reviving one of the oldest bad ideas in economic policy: a universal basic income. Recent pieces in Newsweek, the LSE Business Review, and Fortune have all helped push the idea that AI may soon wipe out so many jobs that Washington will need to send everyone a check. Image Credit: Shutterstock That makes for a catchy headline. It also makes for terrible economics. The right question is not whether AI will disrupt work. Of course it will. The right question is this: after more than 100 local guaranteed-income experiments, what have we actually learned? The answer is much less flattering to UBI than its promoters would like. What 122 UBI-Style Pilots Show A new AEI working paper by Kevin Corinth and Hannah Mayhew gives the best recent overview of the evidence. Per their study, there were 122 guaranteed basic income pilots across 33 states and the District of Columbia between 2017 and 2025. Those pilots allocated about $481.4 million …

Leighton Meester, Adam Brody’s Date Nights Led to Her Movie ‘Basic’

Leighton Meester, Adam Brody’s Date Nights Led to Her Movie ‘Basic’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Leighton Meester has long held much more than a basic understanding of the comedy movie Basic, thanks to outings with husband Adam Brody. Meester and Ashley Park star in writer-director Chelsea Devantez’s feature directorial debut that premiered Monday at SXSW. Taylor John Smith, Nelson Franklin, Kandy Muse, Ashley Nicole Black, Amber Ruffin and Jon Gabrus round out the cast for Basic, which is seeking distribution. During an onstage conversation about the movie that followed its screening, Devantez explained that the project originated as a three-minute short film of the same name that was accepted into SXSW in 2020. Because the event was canceled that year amid the COVID pandemic, the short never actually screened in a theater, but the festival posted it online, leading to hundreds of messages from impressed viewers. Six days after the short debuted, producer Katie McNicol from Marc Platt‘s banner set up a Zoom conversation to board a feature version of Basic. The film centers on Gloria (Park), who splits from boyfriend Nick (Smith) after she starts obsessing over the social …

Prime Video will restrict basic users to HD streaming

Prime Video will restrict basic users to HD streaming

Published by skeptic

Bad news for the more than 180 million Americans signed up for Amazon Prime: the service is revamping its membership structure and locking 4K video streaming behind a higher-cost tier, charging customers an additional $4.99 per month to unlock the highest-resolution experience. Prior to the change, regular Prime members paying either $14.99 per month or $139 per year could stream in 1080p HD or 4K/UHD, while customers eager to stream ad-free could pay an additional $3 per month. Now, however, the basic Prime Video package restricts users to 1080p streams, while the ad-free experience is being upgraded and rebranded as “Ultra.” SEE ALSO: Alexa+ is now available to everyone in the US, and free for Prime members To further entice customers to upgrade their subscription, Amazon is throwing in additional perks for Ultra members, including an increased download capacity for offline viewing (from 25 to 100), support for Dolby Atmos audio and Dolby Vision picture, and an increase in the number of concurrent streams from a single account, from three to five. Mashable Light Speed …

Sam Altman Admits That AI Is Disrupting the Basic Fabric of Capitalism

Sam Altman Admits That AI Is Disrupting the Basic Fabric of Capitalism

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s public persona depends on a carefully balanced contradiction. Though he presents himself as the thoughtful steward of a dangerous technology, the AI luminary has aggressively pursued relationships with top lawmakers while racing rival tech moguls to the top of the market, consequences be damned. One of the ways he maintains this shtick is by acknowledging painful truths he has no plan of acting on. Speaking at the BlackRock Infrastructure Summit this week, Altman mused on AI’s public relations crisis, admitting that the tech is upending the dynamic between capital and labor. “Data centers are getting blamed for electricity prices hikes. Almost every company that does layoffs is blaming AI, whether or not it really is about AI,” Altman said, per Fortune, alluding to “AI washing” in which firms use the tech as cover for more ordinary market pressures driving workforce reductions. Whatever the cause, he granted that AI is letting “capital” — businesses owners …

Alan Ritchson in Netflix’s Basic Sci-Fi Actioner

Alan Ritchson in Netflix’s Basic Sci-Fi Actioner

Published by Daniella Wilson

Action movies don’t get more generic than this second Netflix movie featuring the exact same title as the 2017 Brad Pitt starrer (good luck on your searches). War Machine stars Alan Ritchson of Reacher fame as the leader of a platoon of U.S. Rangers who have the bad luck of encountering a giant killer robot from outer space that seems to be left over from War of the Worlds. The sort of mindless time-killer that will boost your testosterone level while watching it, the film seems perfectly designed for those born too late to have seen the original Predator, or any of its 80s and 90s-era clones, during their theatrical runs. Ritchson’s character, known only as “81,” is given a cursory backstory in the form of an opening scene — set two years before the main action — depicting a tragic military incident involving his brother (an unfortunately underused Jai Courtney) in Kandahar. Cue the subsequent flashbacks as 81 frequently relives his trauma at inopportune moments. War Machine The Bottom Line Not all it could …

Five Basic Truths About America’s Immigration Debate

Five Basic Truths About America’s Immigration Debate

Published by Daniella Wilson

“If Liberals Won’t Enforce Borders, Fascists Will.” So warned my colleague David Frum in the headline of an April 2019 article about America’s failure to control mass immigration. “Demagogues rise by talking about issues that matter to people, and that more conventional leaders appear unwilling or unable to address,” he wrote. “If difficult issues go unaddressed by responsible leaders, they will be exploited by irresponsible ones.” That thesis looked shaky in 2020. Voters declined to reelect Donald Trump; for the first time in more than 50 years, Gallup found that Americans who wanted immigration to increase outnumbered those who wanted it to decrease––a seeming rebuke of Trump’s cruel family-separation policy and attacks on Mexicans and Muslims––and that 77 percent said immigration is a good thing for the United States. Then Joe Biden failed to control the southern border and presided over record surges in unlawful entries. By 2024, a majority wanted less immigration, Trump won the presidency while promising the biggest mass deportation in U.S. history, and an analysis of why voters rejected Kamala Harris …