Social media platforms make $11B in ad revenue from U.S. teens — Harvard Gazette
- kids have always been targeted though. Don’t tell me the disease ridden McPlay place with its sad meals isn’t to blame too.
- After reading The Quest for Cosmic Justice I’ve considered how negative regulation can be. Let’s thought experiment: stop advertising to kids. Well then why not stop advertising to people of any other demographic? Old people are vulnerable too right? Okay so then let’s have free market. Advertise to anyone - okay let’s enable smoking ads again for kids. No that’s not good.
YouTube derived the greatest ad revenue from users 12 and under ($959.1 million), followed by Instagram ($801.1 million) and Facebook ($137.2 million). Instagram derived the greatest ad revenue from users ages 13-17 ($4 billion), followed by TikTok ($2 billion) and YouTube ($1.2 billion). The researchers also calculated that Snapchat derived the greatest share of its overall 2022 ad revenue from users under 18 (41 percent), followed by TikTok (35 percent), YouTube (27 percent), and Instagram (16 percent).
OpenAI announces first partnership with a university - education is going to be greatly commoditized. - Academic researchers can enjoy researching again instead of teaching (what some of them are horrid at) - I took an accounting class where half was online, half in person. This will be the future for all classes, but probably 10% in person. - The value of the professor will be in office hours.
Meta’s new goal is to build artificial general intelligence - The Verge
We’re used to there being pretty intense talent wars,” he says. “But there are different dynamics here with multiple companies going for the same profile, [and] a lot of VCs and folks throwing money at different projects, making it easy for people to start different things externally.
- Big tech has the compute resources to develop AGi
- Multiple AGI competition will increase security, lower cost.
- We’ll all have access eventually to open source AGI. And the same bad guys that have access will be countered by the good guys who have access. Just like today.
GitHub - FlagOpen/TACO - It’s good to have benchmarks everyone can rely on. Hopefully they don’t leak into the training data.
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