ABC Australia The Boyer Lectures … last few episodes!
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The Voice in Australia
Pretty confusing the debate on THE VOICE in Australia at present ... I am trying to get informed and find out CUI BONO & more like background Infos about Labour and Liberals and the Aboriginal Policies of the past. It is all about the GAP between The First Nation people and white Australia and the past decades and Australian history. ABC.com.au and other Media in Australia Peter Dutton starts his No Campaign (WHY and what are his solutions???) and is backed by John Howard, former PM of the Liberals and the Coalitions he could form. Linked Marcia Langton (Public Academic and Prof. in Melbourne, born in Brisbane, QLD) has been a prominent figure in the efforts to close the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians for decades. She has been a vocal advocate for Indigenous rights and has worked on a range of initiatives aimed at addressing the systemic disadvantages faced by Indigenous Australians. In 2008, Langton was appointed to the role of co-chair of the National Indigenous Council, which advised the Australian government on Indigenous policy. Langton was also involved in the development of the "Closing the Gap" strategy, which was launched in 2008 with the aim of addressing the health, education, and employment disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Langton has been a prominent VOICE in the ongoing debate around constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians, arguing that awareness and…
Eric Schmidt on AI and AGI
Quoted from AFR.com “The question is what is the right answer,” Dr Schmidt said. “I’m not in favour of a six-month pause because it will simply benefit China. “What I am in favour of is getting everybody together ASAP to discuss what are the appropriate guardrails. “Say you are an AI researcher, you build one of these things. You want to release it? Well, you shouldn’t release it without some kind of mitigation for things that it could do that are negative.” Dr Schmidt said if industry could not agree on guardrails, governments would inevitably have to come in and impose their own standards. “I think today the government’s response would be clumsy because there are very few people in government who understand this stuff. So I’m in favour of letting the industry try to get its act together. This is a case where you don’t rush in unless you understand what you’re doing.” Dr Schmidt said he had two concerns about AI getting out of control. He said as systems got bigger and more sophisticated, it raised the question, how do you know that you know what it knows? How do you test it? “You can get a situation where it’s a race to the bottom … and we rush to release without knowing what we’re doing,” he said. AFR.com | Screenshot phb Avid Readers I asked ChatGPT to generate…