Adversarial Example Researchers Need to Expand What is Meant by ‘Robustness’

The hypothesis in Ilyas et. al. is a special case of a more general principle that is well accepted in the distributional robustness literature — models lack robustness to distribution shift because they latch onto superficial correlations in the data. Naturally, the same principle also explains adversarial examples because they arise from a worst-case analysis of distribution […]

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Microsoft buys more than a billion dollars’ worth of excrement, including human poop, to clean up its AI mess — company will pump waste underground to offset AI carbon emissions

Microsoft has just signed a deal with Vaulted Deep, paying it to remove 4.9 million metric tons of waste over 12 years sourced from manure, sewage, and agricultural byproducts for injection deep underground. According to Inc., the current cost of CO2 removal with the company is $350 per ton. If you multiply that by Microsoft’s […]

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DOJ Drops Charges Against Plastic Surgeon, Friend of RFK JR., For COVID Vaccine Fraud

from the injustice-league dept Back when the COVID-19 vaccines were first rolled out, to the surprise of nobody intelligent, fraud schemes around vaccination cards began to pop up. Groups, including some doctors, were illegally handing out vaccination cards without actually vaccinating anyone. One of those doctors, according to charges brought by the DOJ, was Michael […]

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Good Riddance: CalPERS’ Atrocious General Counsel Matt Jacobs to Retire

Why, pray tell, would the nation’s biggest public pension fund that also runs its own health insurance program hire a general counsel with no experience whatsoever in investment management, financial regulatory compliance, insurance, government public disclosure and other state agency requirements, and instead had been a private sector criminal defense attorney? Oh, and by credible […]

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Ethereum ETFs register quickest $1B intake to surpass $7B in total inflows

Ethereum (ETH) spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) registered the fastest “$1 billion leap” in net inflows in their history, jumping from $6 billion to $7 billion in two days, according to Farside Investors’ data.  The previous record was five days, when the inflows jumped from $5 billion to $6 billion between July 10 and July 16. […]

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What the hell is going on with Subnautica 2?

If I had to describe the status of Subnautica 2 in just three words, it would be these: messy, messy, messy. That’s not to say the game itself is in terrible shape — this is actually a pivotal claim in the whole situation — but the relationship between Subnautica series developer Unknown Worlds and its […]

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