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AIs can guess where Reddit users live and how much they earn (www.newscientist.com)
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Large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 can identify a person’s age, location, gender and income with up to 85 per cent accuracy simply by analysing their posts on social media.

But the AIs also picked up on subtler cues, like location-specific slang, and could estimate a salary range from a user’s profession and location.

Reference:

arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2310.07298

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[–] jiberish@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Anyone can guess anything! Give it a try!

I can guestimate the number of turkeys it would take to fill any given space. It’s my superpower.

[–] Seraph@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How many turkeys can fit in Rhode Island?

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Red Rocks Amphitheater: go!

[–] jiberish@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No roof on Red Rocks, so you can stack about half a million turkeys in that space.

[–] Gigan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How many turkeys would it take to fill the Titanic on it's maiden voyage?

[–] bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

African or European?

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How many turkeys can fit in a black hole?

[–] jiberish@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All of the turkeys will fit

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Will they still be turkeys?

[–] stringere@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

We can be certain they will or will not be.