Tuesday 1st January, 2019 #
- This clever AI hid data from its creators to cheat at its appointed task - What if the worrying thing is that it wasn't "cheating" and we are calling it cheating, it might actually be safer if it was actually cheating
- Woodstock 50th anniversary festival to take place at original site
- Detaining immigrants is big business - ICE is requesting budget for 52000 people daily
- Muslim charity aims to deliver 7000 meals to homeless by New Year's Day - 1 out of every 52 people is homeless in London - Why does the article frame it as a sort of homeless people food delivery service?
- Reality Check - How many people seek asylum in the UK?
- Louis C.K. Leaked Stand-up Set - Sure a lot of his material is risky but he also highlights important often uncomfortable truths about society - I find a lot of his stuff funny, are we bad people for laughing? I don't know - maybe he should do a show about surveillance and AI - might be worth doing before comedy gets deprecated/bypassed/irrelevantized - just a suggestion, it's pretty scary territory if you ask me
- Netflix stops paying the ‘Apple tax’ on its $853M in annual iOS revenue
- New Year celebrations: UK welcomes in 2019