The GDP Illusion: Surging Statistics Hide Pain for Average Americans

Bamboozled Once Again... Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World  “Narcissists are unstable and go through repeated cycles of self-destruction, with...

'The Best Solution Is To Murder Him In His Sleep': AI Can Learn Violent Tendencies From Each Other Authored by Owen Hughes via Live Science, Large language models (LLMs) are secretly teaching each other unwanted habits through seemingly benign training data, scientists say. The phenomenon, known as "subliminal learning," occurs when a pretrained "teacher" artificial intelligence (AI) model is used to generate the training data for a smaller, "student" model. A new study hints at the darker aspects of Large Language Models (LLMs). (Image credit: DKosig via Getty Images) In a study published April 15...