Why aren’t governments using science to solve their problems?
A study has found more than 60% of scientists said that science advice fails to incorporate diversity of people or viewpoints. “Only in this way can you hope to convey…evidence to them in a way that helps them understand and appreciate it,” said Mark Ferguson, who was Ireland’s chief science adviser between 2012 and 2022.
There is a new technology that will help you recap your listening habits
Spotify has launched a feature to analyse users’ listening habits, which could be used to build a personalised lifestyle. The feature is available on users’ homepages and will ask them questions like, “How good were you on January 9, 2015?” and “Why did you want to listen like it was Christmas?” Users will be able to see the longest listening streak for their top five artists.
They had 3 Top Engineers from Deep Mind
OpenAI’s Co-founder Mira Murati, in an interview with Steven Levy, said she wasn’t concerned about the recent chatter about developing more powerful generative AI models. “AI systems eventually will perform a wide range of cognitive tasks…as well as humans do,” Murati said. She further said it could take decades, but AI systems eventually will perform a variety of cognitive tasks as well as humans.
Amazon is building a giant computer
Amazon Web Services (AWS) unveiled three new AI-powered content generation models, Nova Canvas, Nova Reel and Anthropic, at AWS re:Invent 2019 in Las Vegas. The two models are an image generation model and the other is a content generation model. Amazon said it has watermarking capabilities for the content generation models. It’s collaborating with Anthropic to build a huge AI cluster.
It may be banned for data brokers to sell your social security number
The US’ Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is seeking comments on a proposed rule that would limit the ability of data brokers to sell Americans’ sensitive personal and financial information. Under the proposed rule, data brokers that sell information about consumers’ income, credit history, credit score or debt payments would be considered consumer reporting agencies. The rule will be out for public comment until March 3.