Stephen Curry’s former coach says AI can help train the next generation of NBA champions

Jun28
by on June 28, 2022 at 8:30 pm
Posted In: Insider


Steph Curry is currently celebrating another NBA championship — just 10 years after the star feared he’d never play again. Curry’s early years at the Golden State Warriors were plagued by chronic ankle injuries. In 2013, the team’s new performance director, Keke Lyles, proposed a new explanation for the problem. Lyles believed Curry was overly reliant on his ankles for speed. The coach devised a training program that transferred power generation to the marksman’s hips.  “He would overload his lower legs a lot more than what he needed to,” Lyles told TNW. “It’s not that he wasn’t able to use…

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Opinion: Bad things will happen when the AI sentience debate goes mainstream

Jun27
by on June 27, 2022 at 5:35 pm
Posted In: artificial intelligence, Opinion


A Google AI engineer recently stunned the world by announcing that one of the company’s chatbots had become sentient. He was subsequently placed on paid administrative leave for his outburst. His name is Blake Lemoine and he sure seems like the right person to talk about machines with souls. Not only is he a professional AI developer at Google, but he’s also a Christian priest. He’s like a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup of science and religion. The only problem is that the whole concept is ridiculous and dangerous. There are thousands of AI experts debating “sentience” right now, and they…

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Psst… here are the 8 best cheatsheets for React developers

Jun26
by on June 26, 2022 at 10:00 am
Posted In: Code Word, Insider


This article was originally published on .cult by Ashutosh Mishra. .cult is a Berlin-based community platform for developers. We write about all things career-related, make original documentaries, and share heaps of other untold developer stories from around the world. Practice is the key to mastery in any skill or field of knowledge. You don’t learn things in a day. You need weeks, months, and sometimes even years of consistent practice to be good at something. React, in general, is also vast and it takes time to learn it well. So instead of weeping in front of the mirror when you…

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Stop debating whether AI is ‘sentient’ — the question is if we can trust it

Jun25
by on June 25, 2022 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Uncategorized


The past month has seen a frenzy of articles, interviews, and other types of media coverage about Blake Lemoine, a Google engineer who told The Washington Post that LaMDA, a large language model created for conversations with users, is “sentient.” After reading a dozen different takes on the topic, I have to say that the media has become (a bit) disillusioned with the hype surrounding current AI technology. A lot of the articles discussed why deep neural networks are not “sentient” or “conscious.” This is an improvement in comparison to a few years ago, when news outlets were creating sensational stories…

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