“If you ever wondered what they use to train GPT-5, now you know.”
—John Levine, creator of a site designed to trap web crawling bots, explains that his site has received millions of pings in recent days from OpenAI bots, which indiscriminately collect Internet data used to train AI models. 404 Media Report.
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How robotic bees and hives can help the species fight back
October 2022
Something was wrong, but Thomas Schmiccl couldn't point out the problem. It was 2007, and the Austrian biologist was spending part of the year at East Tennessee State University. During his daily walks, he noticed that there seemed to be a noticeable absence of insects.
Schmichl, who currently heads the Artificial Life Research Center at the University of Graz in Austria, was not wrong. Insect populations are actually declining or changing worldwide.