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Google and Microsoft’s AI Chatbots Refuse to Say Who Won the 2020 US Election | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/google-and-microsofts-chatbots-refuse-election-questions/

Google’s and Microsoft’s AI Chatbots Refuse to Say Who Won the 2020 US Election
With just six months to go before the US presidential election, Gemini and Copilot chatbots are incapable of saying that Joe Biden won in 2020, and won’t return results on any election anywhere, ever.

More chaos at The Washington Post as the new boss’s ethics are questioned: Publisher Will Lewis’ credibility [what credibility?] with staff was already on shaky ground. News of his attempts to squash coverage makes it all the more unsettled.
https://www.poynter.org/com…

More chaos at The Washington Post as the publisher’s ethics are questioned - Poynter
Publisher Will Lewis’ credibility with staff was already on shaky ground. News of his attempts to squash coverage makes it all the more unsettled.

Closing day one of #CSSDay: @… with an excellent talk about constraints and asking the right questions when designing for the Web. 👏

Pro se answer in one of the Tesla #ScheduleA cases says the defendant only sold $35 worth of the accused product, never to Florida, and not since 2022:
https://s…

The First Read: Biggest questions hovering around NFL's first wave of mandatory minicamps https://www.nfl.com/news/the-first-read-biggest-questions-hovering-around-nfl-s-first-wave-of-mandatory-minicamps

For the #BelieveInFilm crowd: «The Lost Art of the Negative» on folks’ not picking up their negatives and the copyright questions arising around it.
The copyright question I don't find too interesting. But, it baffles me that people today would go through all the rigmarole of analog photography to then effectively throw out the negatives!
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/arts/film-photography-negatives.html

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09889 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIR_…

Is Table Retrieval a Solved Problem? Exploring Join-Aware Multi-Table Retrieval
Retrieving relevant tables containing the necessary information to accurately answer a given question over tables is critical to open-domain question-answering (QA) systems. Previous methods assume the answer to such a question can be found either in a single table or multiple tables identified through question decomposition or rewriting. However, neither of these approaches is sufficient, as many questions require retrieving multiple tables and joining them through a join plan that cannot be d…

Today a consortium the company I work for is part of we prepared a meeting on Monday where we'll defend a grant application. When it came to who was gonna present or answer questions people were very protective of me and two other people because "you are still so young, we don't want to overwhelm you".
I am 44 years old.
Boomers are really fucking Out of touch with reality.

Google Gemini and Microsoft's Copilot won't return results on any elections globally or historical US elections, and refuse to confirm that Biden won in 2020 (David Gilbert/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-and-microsofts-chatb…

And yes. I am currently sititng on my hands and breathing deeply before answering yet another one...
The thing is, I think for the scientific colleagues in question, they have no clue how patronising this sounds to me.
Anyway, I shall continue my unpacking after coming home late last night from "working on scientific problems alongside local communities in Greenland" And maybe take it on Monday.