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1. Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation (Stephen Loosley)
2. Most Federal Public Servants Want to Keep Using Generative AI
(Tom Worthington)
3. Re: Google orders small modular nuclear reactors for data
centres (David)
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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 16:50:02 +1030
From: Stephen Loosley <[email protected]>
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Subject: [LINK] Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 08:55:00 +1100
From: Tom Worthington <[email protected]>
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Subject: [LINK] Most Federal Public Servants Want to Keep Using
Generative AI
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The Digital Transformation Agency ran a trial of Microsoft 365 Copilot
for public servants. Most saw benefits and want to keep using it:
"Most efficiencies were found in routine and office management tasks
like taking notes, listing action items, and starting document writing
or planning. Participants also enjoyed trying new features such as
programming, scripting, creating images, making presentation decks,
along with searching and summarising databases."
https://www.dta.gov.au/blogs/evaluation-whole-government-trial-generative-ai-now-available
It is a little frightening what Robodebt 2.0 might look like as a result.
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Tom Worthington http://www.tomw.net.au
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 11:15:53 +1100
From: David <[email protected]>
To: Scott Howard <[email protected]>, Tom Worthington
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Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [LINK] Google orders small modular nuclear reactors for
data centres
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On 23/10/24 11:03, Scott Howard wrote::
> More than a third of people in the US live within 50 miles of a nuclear power
> plant.
> The attitude Australians have towards them is very different to that in the
> US, where people generally have no major concerns of living near them.
Perhaps this is a case of familiarity breeding contempt.? The folks living
within 50 miles of Three Mile Island preceding the accident there probably had
no concerns either.
In any case, Australia does not have an established nuclear power industry so
we'd be completely dependent on overseas expertise for know-how, supply &
installation of the nuclear plants, ongoing maintenance of them, reprocessing
of spent fuel rods, supply of new fuel, etc.
This is NOT a good strategic position in a highly unstable world.? Only
recently the Ukraine was (and still is) worried about a Russian attack on a
plant there just as a war-fighting tactic.
_David Lochrin_
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