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"Landlords are increasingly turning to AI programs to screen prospective tenants. The prevalence of incorrect, outdated, or misleading information in such reports is increasing costs and barriers to housing, especially among people of color."

https://jacobin.com/2023/06/artificial-intelligence-corporate-landlords-tenants-screening-crime-racism/

#tech #news #ai #MachineLearning #housing @technology

Dr Evil would be proud

Maybe it will stop you from using the Reddit trick.

“Accelerated Mobile Pages” succeeded in speeding up publishers’ mistrust of the search giant.

I recently discovered that bridges exist on Matrix allowing you to communicate with others on different platforms.

I would love to make use of this, but I lack the technical abilities to spin up my own server… at least not without a step-by-step for noobs. Does anyone know of a server that's open to join that has bridges available to use? Or barring that some reasonably priced turnkey service? I saw one that was $22/mo for up to 50 users, but that seems a bit much for just me.

How to handle function name hallucinations, function call chaining and more accurate function call arguments

Two U.S. food companies have received the go-ahead to sell chicken grown from cultivated animal cells in a production facility. It's the first time meat grown this way will be sold in the U.S.

President Joe Biden huddled in the Oval Office with several of his top advisers in early April as an aide typed prompts into ChatGPT: Summarize the Supreme Court’s New Jersey v. Delaware ruling and turn it into a Bruce Springsteen song.

Weeks earlier, Biden had joked with Springsteen at the National Medal of Arts ceremony that the case, which centered on rights to the Delaware River, also gave his home state a claim to The Boss. Now, before the president’s eyes, the AI chatbot instantaneously began composing the lyrics in Springsteen’s style.

Like many Americans who have toyed with ChatGPT, the president was wowed.

By the end of the meeting, which also focused on AI’s impact on cybersecurity and jobs, he reminded the aides in the room – including his chief of staff Jeff Zients, deputy chief of staff Bruce Reed and top science adviser Dr. Arati Prabhakar – of what had already been clear inside the West Wing for weeks: AI should be a top priority.

“Did you know the state of Michigan only lets you build a network if enough private companies don’t bid? Florida requires local officials to explain how their network will be profitable within four years, as if profits were the point of fixing the digital divide. Nevada will only let towns and counties with tiny populations erect their own networks. Virginia local networks aren’t allowed to charge less than the incumbents — it’s illegal to make the internet more affordable!”

The level of rot within the ISP industry at the fed, state, and private level is holding back to the US from expanding internet coverage across the country especially rural areas.

America’s geography makes it much more difficult to reach the level of fiber coverage that other western countries currently have, but let’s not kid ourselves in thinking that ISP companies and regulators have been trying to solve this problem.

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It seems a bit surreal that he got approved personally.

Ars spoke with community mods about where Reddit goes from here.

5 and a half years ago EA held an AMA so disastrous that it was unreadable as downvotes pummelling the answering producers and directors to the ground. Back then I made an overview for r/Games.

Due to the high interest and high chance of being a shit show of similar or possibly greater proportion, here's an easily readable overview for the spez AMA.

I will edit as it goes on.

One takeaway: “it costs seven times more.”