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Online battles: combatting false information and reducing online risks

Futurum

Deepfake — manipulation of existing digital media (image, video and/or audio) – e.g., by swapping faces and changing voices – or creation of new media, typically using machine learning-based techniques such as deep learning. For technical degrees and careers, subjects like computer science and mathematics can be useful.

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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

But say all we’ve got is the data, and we don’t know what underlying laws govern it. And in fact, much like with the “ deep-learning breakthrough of 2012 ” it may be that such incremental modification will effectively be easier in more complicated cases than in simple ones.

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The Making of A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

There were times when the things I wanted to know were still entangled in government or other secrecy. In other cases we had to search government records, ask institutions, or find relatives or other personal contacts. For ones who were alive we just sent them email, usually getting helpful (if sometimes witty) responses.

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