2023-04-21

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Large, creative AI models will transform lives and labour markets
Using AI in politics

We did some simple experiments last year to see if you could run ‘synthetic’ focus groups and ‘synthetic’ polls inside a LLM. Yes you can. We interrogated synthetic swing voters and synthetic MAGA fans on, for example, Trump running again. Responses are indistinguishable from real people as you might expect. And polling experiments similarly produced results very close to actual polls. Some academic papers have been published showing similar ideas to what we experimented with. There is no doubt that a competent team could use these emerging tools to improve tools for politics and perform existing tasks faster and cheaper. And one can already see this starting (look at who David Shor is hiring).
No More Begging for Treats. Dogs Now Have Restaurants

Introducing 'Trusted Publishers' | Hacker News

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Russian warplane accidentally bombs own city
- don't recall seeing any other reports about the Russian Air Force except those talking about their absence from the war so far.
Australia’s Mothballed F/A-18 Hornets Should Be Given to Ukraine