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Officials altered their views on the economy, raising their outlook on inflation for 2026 to 3.6% on headline and 3.3% for core, which excludes food and energy. At the last update in March, committee members anticipated 2.7% rates for both measures. They also slightly lowered their projection for gross domestic product growth to 2.2%, down 0.2 percentage point from March, and cut the unemployment projection to 4.3%, down 0.1 percentage point.
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Training a model isn't the same thing as republishing copyrighted works.
#38 | Posted by sitzkrieg
Tell it to your boy Trump.
Treasury Secretary says it's 'unacceptable' that Chinese open source AI models may have been built on 'IP theft'
"There's a very technical AI word for it called distillation, but you and I would call it theft," Bessent said during an interview on Fox Business.
Bessent said the Trump administration welcomes open-sourced AI models in general, but will not tolerate companies that build their offerings on "IP theft."
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Consciousness is difficult to define. Learning, I'm not sure how that's defined, but at least it can be tested.
There isn't a test for consciousness that livestock doesn't pass, so there's obvious reluctance to go down that path.
It would be bad for business and extremely challenging for the fragile colonialist telos if we formally acknowledged livestock, like the lesser races of negroes and savage Indians, have feelings.
Livestock Emotional Intelligence: Scientists Uncover Complex Feelings in Farm Animals
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"The interview that exposed academia's cluelessness"
Such a bad attempt at a flex headline, it ends up completely missing the point and owning itself.
Academia exists because there's things we still don't have a clue about.
If it weren't for cluelessness, there'd be no Newton, no Einstein, no world's richest man and botched penis enlargement surgery victim Elon Musk.