The best of Eurobike 2022: Killer D-locks, snow trikes, and futuristic ebikes

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by on August 5, 2022 at 3:23 pm
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Last month saw the Eurobike 2022 conference in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, bringing a swag of new ebikes, cargo bikes, and escooters to industry professionals and product enthusiasts. Here’s some of the tech that caught my eye. The Noordung ebike  At first glance, the Slovakian Noordung ebike looks like any cool, retro-inspired lightweight carbon fiber ebike. But it possesses a couple of superpowers. It comes with a detachable Bluetooth boombox equipped with four speakers, so you can play music as you ride.  A boombox with air quality sensors PM 2.5 and PM 10 particle sensors are embedded in the speakers.…

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Stanford AI experts call BS on claims that Google’s LaMDA chatbot is sentient

Aug04
by on August 4, 2022 at 3:15 pm
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Two Stanford heavyweights have weighed in on the fiery AI sentience debate — and the duo is firmly in the “BS” corner. The wrangle recently rose to a crescendo over arguments about Google’s LaMDA system. Developer Blake Lemoine sparked the controversy. Lemoine, who worked for Google’s Responsible AI team, had been testing whether the large-language model (LLM) used harmful speech. The 41-year-old told The Washington Post that his conversations with the AI convinced him that it had a sentient mind. “I know a person when I talk to it,” he said. “It doesn’t matter whether they have a brain made…

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Hino’s workplace culture resulted in 20 years of carbon emissions lies

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by on August 4, 2022 at 1:59 pm
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This week an inquiry into the lies of truck and bus maker Hino Motors revealed why the brand doctored emissionsdata on gas-guzzling engines over the last 20 years. Their excuse: company culture.   Hino Motors, a Toyota Motor Corp affiliate, was found in March to have falsified data related to the carbon emissions and fuel performance of four engines – a deception that dates back to at least 2003.  Unfortunately, emissions scandals are nothing new.   The Hino company is 51% owned by Toyota Motor Corp. Image credit: Hino The company joins the ranks of big dirty liars Volkswagen and Stellantis, who…

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Judges could be manipulated by Wikipedia articles, MIT study warns

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by on August 3, 2022 at 4:24 pm
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Litigants could game Wikipedia to influence legal decisions, according to new research. A study led by Neil Thompson from MIT’s Computer Science and AI Laboratory (CSAIL) discovered that judges were more likely to cite legal cases that have a Wikipedia article. The finding has sparked  concerns that judicial decisions are being shaped by unreliable information. The openness of Wikipedia could also lead legal judgements to be manipulated. “A well-resourced litigant could encourage his legal team to anonymously integrate their own analysis of a relevant precedent into a Wikipedia article at an early stage of litigation, in the hope of later…

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