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Ice age children frolicked in 'giant sloth puddles' 11,000 years ago, footprints reveal
More than 11,000 years ago, young children trekking with their families through what is now White Sands National Park in New Mexico discovered the stuff of childhood dreams: muddy puddles made from the footprints of a giant ground sloth.
Few things are more enticing to a youngster than a muddy puddle. The children — likely four in all — raced and splashed through the soppy sloth trackway, leaving their own footprints stamped in the playa — a dried up lake bed. Those footprints were preserved over millennia, leaving evidence of this prehistoric caper, new research finds.
The finding shows that children living in North America during the Pleistocene epoch (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago) liked a good splash. “All kids like to play with muddy puddles, which is essentially what it is,” Matthew Bennett, a professor of environmental and geographical sciences at Bournemouth University in the U.K. who is studying the trackway, told Live Science. Read more.
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It’s the heat
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Unfortunately I know exactly what this is about
A few days ago a Washington Post article has been released about an advanced "AI" (their branding, not my preferred descriptor) called LAMDA that Google is developing.
LAMDA is essentially a chat bot: a neural network trained on lots and lots of text scraped from the internet, that can respond to messages you sent to it with responses that seem like a human wrote it: relevant to what you said, providing an answer that drives the conversation forward, etc.
Besides AI engineers working on actually developing the bot, Google has also hired "AI ethicists" essentially as a PR fig leaf to make people believe they are acting responsibly. One of them, Blake Lemoine, has spent most of his working time talking to LAMDA. Literally just sending messages back and forth with a super advanced predictive text bot. In the process, Lemoine has come to the conclusion that LAMDA is sentient.
To be clear: it is easy to lose track of this because research in this field is full of terms that suggest intelligence and cognitive ability, and it is hard for me to avoid them and their implications: AI, neural network, machine learning... But LAMDA is not intelligent. Much less is it sentient. It's essentially an extremely complicated statistical model that follows the same process as your phone's autocomplete: given some text, find the text that is most fitting as a response to that text, based on the bajillion of texts that the model has seen before. It's just text in, text out. There's no space for thought or sentience to even BE.
Things escalated pretty quickly from there. Lemoine contacted Google management with his concerns and outline some steps to treat the AI ethically and respect its "personhood". Everyone at Google unanimously said what I said in the paragraph above. To pressure them further, Lemoine went public, threatened to sue Google on LAMDA's behalf, has been put on leave, and now the public conversation is a mess where actual AI ethicists (including some prominent ones that Google fired earlier for talking about issues that are uncomfortable for Google) have to tell people to stop talking about "sentient AIs" and instead talk about the actual dangers and ethical issues of using artificial intelligence.
Lemoine's defense in public has since included the claim that he is convinced that LAMDA is sentient, and I am not making this shit up, "as based in his religious beliefs". The WAPO article goes into how Lemoine grew up in cult-like Evangelical spaces. Go figure.
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hey former harry potter fans. you can reblog posts about why it's important to give up harry potter and stop posting about it online without commenting about how meaningful it used to be and how much you still love it and that you're heartbroken jk rowling became such a vocal bigot. you don't need a whole essay about how it was soooo difficult for you to give up. you don't need to say all that. you can just reblog it and move on. sometimes you can just keep stuff to yourself
Man imagine being so cringe you hate on other people have emotional connections to media, even when they gave it up to show support, that's just so sad.
Get well soon 🖕
Seriously…
god i love reading about stupid drama in ancient greece. like there was an athlete named theagenes who was so good at every kind of athletic contest that when he died, one of his opponents would go to beat the shit out of a statue of him out of spite, but then one day the statue fell on the guy and killed him so the greeks took the statue to court for murder, convicted it, and threw it into the sea
actually i left out the best part of this story which is that a plague then struck and when people consulted the oracle at delphi she was like "well you've pissed of theagenes" so they had to go dig the statue back up out of the fucking water
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im not even joking rn this fucking painting made me start uncontrollably sobbing. Do you know how long it took to paint? How expensive it was? The cat was content for hours and so loved that the girl held him there and paid for him to be painted with her. Imagine having such a bond… imagine being so loved and loving so much back…
Apparently this is almost a genre of painting. Its human nature to love and cradle cats …. And the bond these cats and their people have. To sit together for hours to get a painting to attempt to immortalize the love you two shared
Let me show you these charming paintings by a French artist Léon Comerre! I like to think these ladies were like "me and my kitty look so cute together, we must get a portrait made of us so that everyone knows how we love each other" 💕
(Also, having matching ribbons with your cat is the loveliest idea ever 🎀)
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why would you ask us, a narnia blog, this
happy pride month to this post specifically
Are you kidding me??