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• Report: “ChatGPT is Truly Awful at Diagnosing Medical Conditions”

  19-08-2024 15:07 via infodocket.com
  From LiveScience:ChatGPT’s medical diagnoses are accurate less than half of the time, a new study reveals.
  Scientists asked the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to assess 150 case studies from the medical website Medscape and found that GPT 3.5 (which powered ChatGPT when it launched in 2022) only gave a correct diagnosis 49% of the time. 
  Previous research showed that the chatbot could scrape a pass in the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE) — a find
  
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• Report: “A South Texas School District Received a Request to Remove 676 Books”

  19-08-2024 14:24 via infodocket.com
  From the Texas Tribune:On May 17, with just one week to go until the end of the school year, the superintendent of the South Texas Mission school district received an email with a list of 676 books a group of local pastors believed were “filthy and evil.”
  The email came from the personal assistant of Pastor Luis Cabrera, who leads a church in Harlingen, about 30 miles east of the Mission school district.
  The email was clear. Cabrera and “the community” wanted them removed
  
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• Des Moines Register Editorial: “Tweaking Iowa’s Harmful Book Ban Law Isn’t Enough: Repeal It”

  19-08-2024 14:05 via infodocket.com
  From the Des Moines Register:
  The reprieve is over for Iowa educators and schoolchildren. A federal court has ordered that restrictions on some instruction and on school library books dealing with sex must go into effect.
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  For the time being, though, we are all stuck with it, thanks to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ Aug. 9 ruling, which strongly suggested that no challenge to the law as a whole, as opposed to its application in individual cases, will succeed.
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