👮‍♂️ 'An Invisible Cage': How China Is Policing the Future

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'An Invisible Cage': How China Is Policing the Future. Vast surveillance data allows the state to target people whose behavior or characteristics are deemed suspicious by an algorithm, even if they’ve done nothing wrong. (Paul Mozur / The New York Times)

Paul Mozur 孟建國 @paulmozur

Awash in a sea of data, China authorities are trying to police the future. It's not sci fi. Using vast data records on citizens, new software uses scoring and AI to predict crime and protest before they happen. Often the result is automated prejudice.

nytimes.com‘An Invisible Cage’: How China Is Policing the FutureVast surveillance data allows the state to target people whose behavior or characteristics are deemed suspicious by an algorithm, even if they’ve done nothing wrong.

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Facebook is bombarding cancer patients with ads for unproven treatments. Clinics offering debunked cancer treatments are still allowed to advertise, despite the company’s stated efforts to control medical misinformation. (Abby Ohlheiser / MIT Technology Review)

Abby Ohlheiser @abbyohlheiser

Hello happy Monday, here's a story about how an entire pandemic's worth of new social media policies about sensational health claims couldn't stop a bunch of ads promoting unproven and dangerous cancer treatments from running on Meta

technologyreview.comFacebook is bombarding cancer patients with ads for unproven treatmentsClinics offering debunked cancer treatments are still allowed to advertise, despite the company’s stated efforts to control medical misinformation.

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More Hedge Funds Are Betting Against Tether as Crypto Melts Down. Short sellers have been ramping up their bets against tether, the world's largest stablecoin, amid a broad market selloff that has called into doubt the financial health of some crypto companies. In the past month, more traditional hedge funds have… (Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal)

WSJ Markets @WSJmarkets

Hedge-fund managers got interested in shorting Tether after the collapse of another stablecoin, TerraUSD on.wsj.com/39YYPz2

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Apple's mixed reality headset will reportedly come with an M2 chip. Apple's mixed reality headset has been shrouded in rumors for months now, and a new report from Bloomberg 's Mark Gurman indicates that it could come with Apple's flagship M2 processor. According to Gurman, Apple's most recent version of the… (Emma Roth / The Verge)

The Verge @verge

Apple’s mixed reality headset will reportedly come with an M2 chip theverge.com/2022/6/26/2318…

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One Day, AI Will Seem as Human as Anyone. What Then?. Shortly after I learned about Eliza, the program that asks people questions like a Rogerian psychoanalyst, I learned that I could run it in my favorite text editor, Emacs. Eliza truly is a simple program, with hard-coded text and flow control… (Joanna J. Bryson / WIRED)

WIRED @WIRED

"All of us will have to get over the hurdle of thinking that some particular human skill—creativity, dexterity, empathy, whatever—is going to differentiate us from AI."

wired.trib.alOne Day, AI Will Seem as Human as Anyone. What Then?A Google engineer’s claim that the LaMDA program is sentient underscores an urgent need to demystify the human condition.

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