Yes.

It’s Evangelion so...yes.

Relying on AI to Identify Mushrooms Could Kill You

Busting makes you feel “meh”

Tax breaks for megacorps and the 1%, it’s really that simple.

looks like kotaku is officially dead.

That’s about a third of what Reddit just went public at, a 15th of what Musk paid for Twitter, and about 1/400th the market cap of Meta.

Money laundering and a way for foreign entities to funnel money to our criminal former president.

America!

how could Truth Social be worth 3 billion dollars? HOW?

Claypool states that in 2023, Amazon was overwhelmed by AI-generated mushroom foraging books, many of which included incorrect and potentially deadly information. Some of the mushroom foraging books on Amazon purportedly included no indication that they were written by AI, 404 Media reported at the time.

I am astonished that the system recommending I put ammonia in my cupcakes is not able to perfectly discriminate between good and bad mushrooms.

Sure, but give a human expert a photo of a mushroom without enough information for a positive identification they’ll tell you what it might be, why they’re not sure, and, most importantly, not to eat it. An AI is much more likely to confidently tell you the wrong information.

Mycologists have known for quite a long time that you can’t rely upon identification by looking at the sporocarp with the naked eye. The AI is looking at photos of the sporocarp from a similar distance, so of course it will get it wrong.

This looks/sounds very cool. Definitely interested in seeing it. I’m trying to find a good comparison for Dastmalchian’s recent rise to “odd-looking character actor who always delivers,” and I think I’ve landed on “he’s the new Steve Buscemi.”

They started ignoring that part of it decades ago.

TLDR: U.S. PIRG wasted its time and non-profit funding.

It’s actually sadly not even clear that’s beneficial. Since so much of plastic “recyclable” waste is being driven sometimes hundreds of miles to the coast, to be loaded onto cargo ships to be sent thousands of miles to developing countries. The carbon emissions costs of transporting tens of thousands of tons of plastic…

Just to be clear, this isn’t a problem with just plastic packaging.

This is my shocked face