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AI's mythology as a technology for creating intelligent beings instills fear; “data dignity” and seeing AI as a social collaboration could address worries

There are ways of controlling the new technology—but first we have to stop mythologizing it.

New Yorker Jaron Lanier

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  • @newyorker @newyorker on x
    Large language models seem startlingly intelligent. But what's really happening under the hood? https://nyer.cm/BZV4lPe
  • @newyorker @newyorker on x
    Big-model A.I. is made of people—and the way to make its workings more transparent, and therefore less likely to be mismanaged, is to reveal them. https://nyer.cm/nxkimOT
  • @econandrew Andrew Whitby on x
    This idea of somehow compensating everyone who contributes training data to an ML model is bad. Intellectual property is a an unfortunately if perhaps useful kludge, but I don't think we should expand it. https://www.newyorker.com/...