There’s a danger this headline is misleading. James Parkinson identified the disease over 200 years ago, so whatever it is can clearly happen without pesticides. Perhaps they make it more prevalent? But that’s very different from saying that a recent invention makes a very old disease “man’made”
These language models don’t get the meaning of anything. They predict the next cluster of letters based on the clusters of letters that have come before. Sorry, but if it feels to you like they’re captured the meaning of something, you’re being bamboozled
There’s at least two steps before those three:
-1. Society has been built around the needs of the auto industry, locking people into car dependency
Or an Office 365 Group
These authors (and my work is in there) did not write so that Mark Zuckerberg could steal our work and profit from it
It’s become a mass noun, but only thanks to years of people using it wrongly. It was originally very much the plural of datum
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