Jonbwfc So I found out today that Google Deepmind (their AI and machine learning research division) are teaching an AI to play Overcooked. This can only end in the machines killing usall, frankly,
DrDamn Jonbwfc nah, it’ll end up killing itself. “I was on potatoes! It’s my fucking station! You should have been washing up!”. No one can play overcooked without eventually coming to blows, even AI with itself.
Brave https://www.eurogamer.net/kojima-threatens-legal-action-over-japanese-prime-minister-assassin-claim
Alex I’m almost hesitant to post this as it’s so dreadful, but it’s now emerging that the last sixteen years of Alzheimer research and treatment may have been derailed by a deliberate fraud. It’s just mad.
DrDamn Alex link to the Science article: https://www.science.org/content/article/potential-fabrication-research-images-threatens-key-theory-alzheimers-disease The story is potentially horrific and even contains a mini-WTF … This is from the DailyKos article: The drug was being pushed into trials by its manufacturer, Cassava Sciences, but a group of scientists who reviewed the drug maker’s claims about Simufilam believed that it was exaggerating the potential. So they did what any reasonable person would do: They purchased short sell positions in Cassava Sciences stock, filed a letter with the FDA calling for a review before allowing the drug to go to trial, and hired an investigator to provide some support for this position. Something is horribly wrong here … oooh, opportunity for us to profit!
Alex Haha well, I actually spend my days building software systems used in short selling, so I can’t get too high and mighty about it. In fact, sounds totally reasonable to me, definitely not amoral in any way. 😅
DrDamn Alex it’s more the idea that they discover something which will cause the drop, then purchased short sell positions to benefit from it before they themselves set it in motion.
Alex Haha yeah, I mean at least I don’t work for the Pharma company charging $50,000 a dose for something that doesn’t even work.
Alex Splinter Cell getting BBC Radio 4 dramatization. https://www.eurogamer.net/step-aside-netflix-splinter-cell-is-getting-a-bbc-radio-4-adaptation This really is peak alternative timeline stuff.
Brave Especially as Sam is getting played by a member of the cast from The Archers. This is totally the wrong universe.
Alex Alex the followup on my post from last year, the trailer from the new Indiana Jones is out and Glasgow’s looking pretty great. Glasgow visible first at 8 seconds in, then again for the tickertape parade at 55 seconds.
