Knocking out one gene boosts levels of a precursor to the essential nutrient.
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Digital Technology Demands A New Political Philosophy
Men like Zuckerberg and Musk are the subject of fascination. Their character, their genius, their flaws — all are treated to feverish scrutiny. Since Musk’s bid for Twitter, there has been a predictable flurry of speculation: does he know what he’s doing? Is he a troll or a revolutionary? Will he improve conditions of free speech? What, if anything, will he do about online harassment and extremism?
Though valuable and interesting, it is possible that these kinds of questions obscure the deeper issue, or at least the longer-term one. At root, the big question for the future of powerful technologies is this: whether they are ultimately economic entities which should be governed according to market principles, or whether they are in fact political in nature, and so should be governed by democratic norms and principles. In the long run, the answer we provide to this question will significantly affect the course of democracy around the world — more, in any event, than whether Musk himself understands the concept of “free speech absolutism.”
Many other advanced democracies are tacking toward the political/democratic option. The UK is considering a landmark Online Safety Bill, which will place strict duties on social media platforms. Off the back of the General Data Protection Regulation, the EU is readying a swathe of new measures — an Artificial Intelligence Act, a Digital Services Act, a Digital Markets Act — all of which will curb the power of tech firms.
WOW! Sugar Found In Ocean Waters Reportedly Equivalent To 32 Billion Coca Cola Cans
Not Kidding! A Sugar Mountain has been discovered deep within the ocean.
Scientists have found that seagrass meadows on the ocean floor can keep humongous amounts of sugar beneath their swaying fronds. The sugar is in the shape of sucrose (the primary ingredient in sugar used in cooking), and it is released from the seagrasses into soil beneath, recognised as the rhizosphere.
Meta won’t build a dedicated metaverse after all, exec says
An interesting development, you could say revision, or even a back-tracking on the vision for just what it is that Meta plans to build, eventually.
I think it’s important to keep in mind, despite the excitement, that these technologies are still experimental in many ways, they take time to develop, and they will change. Keeping this in mind can help to temper our expectations, but also to spot the hype.
Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs, published an 8,000 word essay about metaverse ideals.
Selection-Inference: Exploiting Large Language Models for Interpretable Logical Reasoning
Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to be capable of impressive.
few-shot generalisation to new tasks. However, they still tend to perform.
poorly on multi-step logical reasoning problems. Here we carry out a.
comprehensive evaluation of LLMs on 50 tasks that probe different aspects of.
Logical reasoning. We show that language models tend to perform fairly well at.
Single step inference or entailment tasks, but struggle to chain together.
multiple reasoning steps to solve more complex problems. In light of this, we.
Propose a Selection-Inference (SI) framework that exploits pre-trained LLMs as.
General processing modules, and alternates between selection and inference to.