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AI tools show biases in ranking job applicants’ names according to perceived race and gender.
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    We find that the MTEs are biased, significantly favoring White-associated names in 85.1% of cases and female-associated names in only 11.1% of cases, with a minority of cases showing no statistically significant differences. Further analyses show that Black males are disadvantaged in up to 100% of cases, replicating real-world patterns of bias in employment settings, and validate three hypotheses of intersectionality. We also find an impact of document length as well as the corpus frequency of names in the selection of resumes.

    Pretty damning... And not surprising.

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    Anti-Fascist voting
  • Oh my God an image macro posted to the political memes board doesn't have 60 pages of nuanced footnotes explaining how if you're in Nebraska then your voting system works differently I'm going to literally shit my own pants out of rage

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    Google why?
  • New devs: "wow a new sdk version"

    Old devs: "Ah fuck I've gotta change how we request permissions again"

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    What are you tired of helping and educating people about because you know they'll just be ignorant anyway?
  • It is my understanding that the fundamental architecture (the general purpose transformer) is identical between the "AI" used by Black Rock and by OpenAI

    If you have some evidence to the contrary I'd always appreciate the chance to learn.

    But the transformer based architecture is fundamentally flawed: it will always hallucinate.

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    What are you tired of helping and educating people about because you know they'll just be ignorant anyway?
  • The "AI" being used by big corporations is still fundamentally an LLM and has all the flaws of an LLM. It's not a hot wheels car vs a tank, it's a hot wheels car vs a $2 billion RC car

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    20 years
  • SpaceX is more technologically advanced than Boeing when it comes to rockets.

    Boeing is a slow, clumsy giant that has been necrotic for decades. We're just now seeing the toes fall off. It'll take a long time for Boeing to change, and in the meantime SpaceX will continue to be the leader in rockets.

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    Concerns about medical note-taking tool raised after researcher discovers it invents things no one said — Nabla is powered by OpenAI's Whisper
  • Zoom ai transcriptions also make things up.

    That's the point. They're hallucination engines. They pattern match and fill holes by design. It doesn't matter if the match isn't perfect, it will patch it over with nonsense instead.

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    Texas election worker assaulted during early voting.
  • I dug into this more because I was under the impression it was the case that most states did not: here's what I found

    https://felonvoting.procon.org/state-felon-voting-laws/

    23 states let you vote after prison. 9 fully stop you off your rights. DC & 2 State let you vote from prison. The others are some level of parole or parole and probation.

    Which means overall 9/51 are full loss: everywhere else you can theoretically get it back.

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    Texas election worker assaulted during early voting.
  • Tbf I think felons should be allowed to vote.

    ... Unless your felony was committed while voting. That seems like an exception...

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    Electric Motorcycle Companies Are Dying Left And Right As People Just Aren't Buying Enough Bikes - The Autopian
  • Yeah the emoto are super pricey.

    Ebikes definitely have more variability across the market. You can get a pretty damn good one in the 1k range, which seems reasonable given the price of batteries.

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