4 d. ago The AI Con by Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna review – debunking myths of the AI revolution

Will new technology help to make the world a better place, or is AI just another tech bubble that will benefit the few?At the beginning of this year, Keir Starmer announced an “AI opportunities action plan”, which promises to mainline AI “into the veins of this enterprising nation”. The implication that AI is a class-A injectable substance, liable to render the user stupefied and addicted, was presumably unintentional. But then what on earth did they mean about AI’s potential, and did they have any good reason to believe it?Not according to the authors of this book, who are refreshingly sarcastic about what they think is just another tech bubble. What is sold to us as AI, they announce, is just “a bill of goods”: “A few major well-placed players are poised to accumulate significant wealth by extracting value from other people’s creative work, personal data, or labor, and replacing quality services with artificial facsimiles.” Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Mum's unassuming gesture that unwittingly brought down evil serial killer clown

Rob Piest was just 15 years old when he was brutally killed by sadistic killer, John Wayne Gacy - but if it wasn’t for his friend Kim Byers-Lund, making one subconscious decision, more innocent victims would have lost their lives

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9 d. ago The 12 confirmed victims of evil serial killers Fred and Rose West

Who were the 12 women and girls murdered by Fred and Rose West?

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3 w. ago Angry mob surrounds home of alleged serial cat killer. Then they realize they got the wrong house

Alejandro Oliveros Acosta is accused of killing ‘a lot’ of cats in Santa Ana, California

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3 w. ago Wild mob surround serial cat killer's home, breaking windows and pepper

A violent group of angry California residents decided to take it upon themselves to track down an alleged serial cat killer and attack his home Sunday night.

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3 w. ago 'People see him as a monster but I love him': New girlfriend of evil serial killer 'Hannibal the Cannibal' reveals how she fell for Britain's most dangerous inmate who's been caged for 51 years

Mother-of-one, Loveinia MacKenney, has been in correspondence with Maudsley, 71,  for the last five years, as the inmate sate behind a glass cage for several decades.

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4 w. ago Evil 'serial cat killer' who 'tied up felines and injected them with substance' is arrested

Alejandro Acosta Oliveros, 45, was arrested after a clip of a man snatching a cat from between two cars before tying up its legs and fleeing in a pickup truck was shared by police

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4 w. ago 'Serial cat killer' arrested after felines 'tied up and injected with substance'

Alejandro Acosta Oliveros, 45, was arrested after several cats were found dead and footage allegedly caught him abducting felines from several different neighbourhoods

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