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Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 22:46

Nick Bostrom’s Future of Humanity Institute closed this week in what Swedish-born philosopher says was ‘death by bureaucracy’

Oxford University this week shut down an academic institute run by one of Elon Musk’s favorite philosophers. The Future of Humanity Institute, dedicated to the long-termism movement and other Silicon Valley-endorsed ideas such as effective altruism, closed this week after 19 years of operation. Musk had donated £1m to the FIH in 2015 through a sister organization to research the threat of artificial intelligence. He had also boosted the ideas of its leader for nearly a decade on X, formerly Twitter.

The center was run by Nick Bostrom, a Swedish-born philosopher whose writings about the long-term threat of AI replacing humanity turned him into a celebrity figure among the tech elite and routinely landed him on lists of top global thinkers. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Tesla chief Musk all wrote blurbs for his 2014 bestselling book Superintelligence.

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Twitter commence à supprimer les tendances : une IA va résumer l’actu à leur place

news.movim.eu / Numerama · Yesterday - 10:46

Twitter, devenu X, expérimente actuellement une nouvelle section nommée « Explore », à la place des TT (Trending Topics). Il s'agit d'un résumé de quatre actualités par Grok, l'intelligence artificielle générative d'Elon Musk. Plus personne ne verra les mêmes tendances.

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Elon Musk’s Grok keeps making up fake news based on X users’ jokes

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · 2 days ago - 21:47 · 1 minute

Elon Musk’s Grok keeps making up fake news based on X users’ jokes

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X's chatbot Grok is supposed to be an AI engine crunching the platform's posts to surface and summarize breaking news, but this week, Grok's flaws were once again exposed when the chatbot got confused and falsely accused an NBA star of criminal vandalism.

"Klay Thompson Accused in Bizarre Brick-Vandalism Spree," Grok's headline read in an AI-powered trending-tab post that has remained on X (formerly Twitter) for days. Beneath the headline, Grok went into even more detail to support its fake reporting:

In a bizarre turn of events, NBA star Klay Thompson has been accused of vandalizing multiple houses with bricks in Sacramento. Authorities are investigating the claims after several individuals reported their houses being damaged, with windows shattered by bricks. Klay Thompson has not yet issued a statement regarding the accusations. The incidents have left the community shaken, but no injuries were reported. The motive behind the alleged vandalism remains unclear.

Grok appears to be confusing a common basketball term, where players are said to be throwing "bricks" when they take an airball shot that doesn't hit the rim. According to SF Gate , which was one of the first outlets to report the Grok error, Thompson had an "all-time rough shooting" night, hitting none of his shots on what was his emotional last game with the Golden State Warriors before becoming an unrestricted free agent.

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Tesla asks shareholders to back $56bn pay for Elon Musk rejected by judge

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 3 days ago - 13:26

Delaware court in nullified compensation deal based on carmaker’s market value in January, calling it ‘unfathomable sum’

Tesla on Wednesday asked its shareholders to once again approve CEO Elon Musk ‘s record-breaking $56bn pay that was set in 2018, but was rejected by a Delaware judge in January.

The compensation includes no salary or cash bonus, but sets rewards based on Tesla’s market value rising to as much as $650bn over the next 10 years. Tesla is now valued at over $500bn, according to LSEG data.

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So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · 4 days ago - 20:29

So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post

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Elon Musk confirmed Monday that X (formerly Twitter) plans to start charging new users to post on the platform, TechCrunch reported .

"Unfortunately, a small fee for new user write access is the only way to curb the relentless onslaught of bots," Musk wrote on X.

In October, X confirmed that it was testing whether users would pay a small annual fee to access the platform by suddenly charging new users in New Zealand and the Philippines $1 . Paying the fee enabled new users in those countries to post, reply, like, and bookmark X posts.

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X : le réseau social d’Elon Musk sur le point de devenir payant ?

news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · 4 days ago - 15:58

Le milliardaire a réaffirmé son intention de faire payer les utilisateurs pour barrer la route aux bots. Cette fois, c'est la bonne ?

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Les licenciements chez Tesla font fuir plusieurs dirigeants clés de l’entreprise

news.movim.eu / Numerama · 4 days ago - 15:04

Le licenciement de près de 10 % des employés de Tesla s’accompagne de quelques départs (apparemment) volontaires. Même si Drew Baglino et Rohan Patel sont bien moins connus du public, leur départ du constructeur n’est pas neutre.

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Dead satellites are filling space with trash. That could affect Earth’s magnetic field | Sierra Solter

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 4 days ago - 10:01

Our ozone is pennies thick – and soon we’ll put at least an Eiffel Tower’s worth of metallic ash into the ionosphere every year

A dead spacecraft the size of a truck ignites with plasma and pulverizes into dust and litter as it rips through the ionosphere and atmosphere. This is what happens to internet service satellites during re-entry. When the full mega-constellation of satellites is deployed in the 2030s, companies will do this every hour because satellite internet requires thousands of satellites to constantly be replaced. And it could compromise our atmosphere or even our magnetosphere.

Space entrepreneurs are betting on disposable satellites as key to a new means of wealth. There are currently nearly 10,000 active satellites and companies are working as fast as possible to get tens of thousands more into orbit – for a projected 1m in the next three to four decades.

Sierra Solter is a plasma physicist, engineer, and inventor who studies the intersection of heliophysics and aerospace

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Judge halts Texas probe into Media Matters’ reporting on X

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · 5 days ago - 17:59

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) meeting on February 23, 2024.

Enlarge / Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) meeting on February 23, 2024. (credit: MANDEL NGAN / Contributor | AFP )

A judge has preliminarily blocked what Media Matters for America (MMFA) described as Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's attempt to "rifle through" confidential documents to prove that MMFA fraudulently manipulated X (formerly Twitter) data to ruin X's advertising business, as Elon Musk has alleged.

After Musk accused MMFA of publishing reports that Musk claimed were designed to scare advertisers off X, Paxton promptly launched his own investigation into MMFA last November.

Suing MMFA over alleged violations of Texas' Deceptive Trade Practices Act—which prohibits "disparaging the goods, services, or business of another by false or misleading representation of facts"—Paxton sought a wide range of MMFA documents through a civil investigative demand (CID). Filing a motion to block the CID, MMFA told the court that the CID had violated the media organization's First Amendment rights, providing evidence that Paxton's investigation and CID had chilled MMFA speech.

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