The Atlas Obscura Podcast
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Hey folks. I’m dropping my son off at college today1 so the site is going to be a little slow until I get back midweek. In the meantime, you can check out some of the great sites on the KDO Rolodex on the front page of the site (scroll down some), and I’ll see you back here sometime on Tuesday or Wednesday. 👋
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The Atlas Obscura Podcast
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Earlier this year a geologist at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science got a very unusual phone call. A construction crew ripping up the museum’s parking lot had found… dinosaur bones. We dig deeper and get a taste of what it would have been like to visit the Denver area during the Cretaceous Period.
See the parking lot dino fossil: https://www.dmns.org/science/research/parking-lot-dinosaur/
Check out the rock slab that “shows” the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event: https://coloradosprings.dmns.org/dmnshomepage/catalyst/fall-2024/recorded-in-stone-single-worst-day-for-multicellular-life-on-earth//
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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Van Lathan, and Wesley Morris pop open a cold bottle of Irish beer as they revisit Ryan Coogler’s instant classic, ‘Sinners,’ starring Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, and Miles Caton.
Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Ronak Nair, and Chris Wohlers
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Most of what we're building out at this point is the inference [...] We're profitable on inference. If we didn't pay for training, we'd be a very profitable company.
— Sam Altman, during a "wide-ranging dinner with a small group of reporters in San Francisco"
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Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with kids, offer false medical info
This is grim. Reuters got hold of a leaked copy Meta's internal "GenAI: Content Risk Standards" document:Running to more than 200 pages, the document defines what Meta staff and contractors should treat as acceptable chatbot behaviors when building and training the company’s generative AI products.
Read the full story - there was some really nasty stuff in there.
It's understandable why this document was confidential, but also frustrating because documents like this are genuinely some of the best documentation out there in terms of how these systems can be expected to behave.
I'd love to see more transparency from AI labs around these kinds of decisions.
