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Even the Most Advanced AI Has a Problem: If It Doesn’t Know the Answer, It Makes One Up

Futurism

This rampant AI problem is, according to researchers who spoke to the Wall Street Journal , rooted in a reticence to be caught not knowing something. According to Jos Hernndez-Orallo, a professor at Spains Valencian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, hallucination comes down to the way AI models are trained.

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Why the best time to solve problems might be the middle of the night

Fast Company Tech

They helped me generate article ideas or navigate complex, ambiguous problems. Salvador Dali and Albert Einstein famously used hypnagogia, this semi-lucid sleep state, to solve creative problems. Its almost like this weird in-between world that Im living in, and problems that I was working on the day before now have a pathway forward.

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These trains could carry giant batteries across Colorado and deliver clean energy to Denver

Fast Company Tech

Now, theres a company looking to address that problem with a simple yet radical solution: Putting renewable energy into giant batteries and transporting those batteries by train. There is no reason why we cannot be moving battery trains over the freight rail network like we move every other form of energy.

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The Problem With Giving Societies and Membership Programs

NonProfit PRO

We have trained the donor to give your society or membership gift and you have done all that is needed this year. The good part about an annual society or membership fee is that it is repeated, so there is donor and value retention. The bad part about it is that the donor is not asked to increase giving or give again in the same year.

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The Hard Problems: A Resilient Civil Society To Face What’s Next

The NonProfit Times

If AI algorithms are trained on biased data or designed without careful consideration of ethical implications, they can lead to discriminatory outcomes, particularly for marginalized or underserved communities. These are all hard problems without an obvious solution.

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Why do LLMs make stuff up? New research peers under the hood.

Ars Technica

One of the most frustrating things about using a large language model is dealing with its tendency to confabulate information , hallucinating answers that are not supported by its training data.

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5 Cybersecurity Best Practices for Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It was just a matter of time until a problem would arise. Your organization needs a deeper understanding of the current threats , a written cybersecurity plan, and training and education to get all staff on board. In December, we spent multiple days updating our passwords for 50+ websites using a password management tool.

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