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Mark Riedl

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AI for storytelling, games, explainability, safety, ethics. Professor at Georgia Tech. Associate Director of ML Center at GT. Time travel expert. Geek. Dad. he/him
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The drinking water used in data centers is often treated with chemicals… rendering it unsuitable for human consumption or agricultural use. Not only are data centers consuming large quantities of drinking water, but they are also removing it from the local water cycle. utulsa.edu/news/data-ce...
Data centers draining resources in water-stressed communitiesutulsa.edu This opinion column was written by Eric Olson, Anne Grau, and Taylor Tipton and was first published in the Dallas Morning News. Olson is an associate
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I live in Georgia. We rate hurricane strength by how many Waffle Houses switch to limited menu.
WTF. The electric company in Texas doesn't have a map of outages so people have been using the Whataburger App to figure out who lost power. This is like when Homer was using the Krusty Burger map when they got lost at sea.
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Looks like Apple has given up on their own LLM and will go with GPT or Gemini www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?www.bloomberg.com
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Waymo self-driving cars are fooled by people wearing t-shirts with stop signs on them. Not terribly surprising this works. www.thestreet.com/automotive/t...
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New proposed law, supported by Screen Actors Guild, would require companies to disclose their training sets to the US Copyright Office when deploying a new generative AI model gizmodo.com/ai-companies...
AI Companies Would Have to Fess Up on What They Use to Train AI Under Proposed Lawgizmodo.com Organizations like the Screen Actors Guild and the RIAA have already come out in support of the legislation.
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