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Re:Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter by popol12 on Thursday March 30, 2023 @10:59AM (#35373650)
Could you please provide details/source ? I'd be very happy to learn that this 50% figure is wrong :)
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Re:Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter by revelio on Friday March 31, 2023 @08:43AM (#35386242)
It's not about insects specifically but this paper points out statistical problems in a very similar claims about vertebrates:

https://www.sfu.ca/biology2/rEEding/pdfs/Leung_et_al_Cluster...

But it's a common theme. These claims get attention and journalists don't check, so they proliferate. Dig in to any given claim and you'll find they're all built on statistical quicksand.

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