Of the 732 participants, 229 passed all criteria (31%). Due to loss of contact with 114 participants despite our repeated attempts to reach them, we successfully enrolled 115 participants in the study as the final sample.
Ha ha sorry I see now my comment is meaningless without that. I'm just at the very end of Gen X, so called Xennial/Settlers of Catan generation.
So basically I'm saying some of the Gen X people and Boomers in senior roles now seem not to understand the limitations of LLMs and are trying to incorporate them anyway.
I see what you're saying. I think a better example to test what you are saying about real vs imaginary people would be if there was a realistic app where you whipped AI generated black people with a virtual whip and made them dance for watermelon.
Would that app be non racist simply because the depicted people are not real?
Would making the app/using the app be non-racist?
Note I'm not trying to say whipping people is equivalent to rating their looks. Obviously it's not. I'm just making a thought experiment to unpack this idea that imaginary interactions can't be -ist.
in order for it to be racist, the very act of depicting a black individual would have to be a racist act in and of itself.
Wait, are you implying that in order for this app to be sexist, the very act of depicting a female individual would have to be a sexist act in and of itself?
Because I don't think the author of the article is arguing that, nor anyone in here.
I think the people who really need a crash course in AI literacy are the people my age and older.
I've already heard at least one horror story about someone's boss trying to include a ChatGPT-sourced, error riddled submission paper in a sensitive bid.
If you work with other people's really complex word documents where formatting is important, you kind of do have to use MS word because Libre Office still does not have 100% compatibility (probably Microsoft's fault).
I'm still a 360 holdout though. I hate the subscription model at the best of times and with Microsoft it just seems egregious.
You seem to know a lot more about ordinance than I do but from what you're saying, it sounds like tungsten that is not alloyed with thorium would be the way to go!!
I wish there were more international cooperation on this stuff.
My parents' generation all seem to hate benzene and warn us it's toxic as hell. That's the only time it seems to come up, might be to do with napalm now that you mention it. Much shorter life and half life I guess.
For what it's worth I also think deliberate napalm and white phosphorous use on humans are war crimes as well.
A couple of years ago Indonesia used white phosphorous on some West Papua villages and the results were horrific.
Edit, just realised I forgot to answer your first question. I do not recollect the details about the relative proportions of other causes of birth defects etc in that environment but I would argue that a) DU alone definitely earned its place as an unethical weapon and b) any known risk factor with that high a contribution should be phased out too.
I think I may have participated in research like this once. It collected a lot of demographic data on me and then I had to rate a bunch of people and in the next section make value judgements about whether each of a series of people looked like they were likely to be smart, trustworthy, bad tempered etc. It was all on a timer.
For starters, nearly all of the imaginary women generated by the site have cartoonishly large breasts
That wasn't my experience when I went there just now. I think maybe it learned from the author's preferences more than the author realises.
I went there and clicked "pass" on everything and it generated a range of different body types of AI women. There were also way more heads without bodies than bodies without heads.
Sorry if I sounded disagreeable, I didn't mean to be. I was just taking a trip down memory lane.
I have to admit if it comes to anything in my field I mostly find good content through discussion groups too.
But for me, in terms of personal interests and some other stuff, the 90s internet was full of static lists of links, even webrings etc. It was great because most people I knew irl who were my age weren't online. I could only add people from other countries on Friendster because my flatmates refused to use it and my friends didn't know what it was!
During that time, we would find interesting web pages through people and/or specific interests.
I beg to differ, during that time I found most of my interesting content through AltaVista and its weird cousin HastaLaVista, and aggregators like Portal of Evil (though, bad example, I seem to recall PoE was pretty much the same time as google).
Yeah the largest biological weapon attack on US soil was a cult.