2025-01-13
Not sure whether “unleashing AI” and “mainlining it into the veins” of the nation is the most clever and reassuring rhetoric for describing your AI strategy. — Sounds like the vocabulary of a drug dealer who's threatening you with his pitbull terrier. — www.theguardian.com/politics/ 202...
Financial Times
The UK's PM debuts plans to increase its public sector compute over 20x to spark a “national renewal”, saying the UK doesn't need to walk a US or EU path on AI
Going our own way will unleash national renewal — Artificial intelligence is the defining opportunity of our generation.
2024-12-05
Thanks Financial Times for standing by your criticism of bitcoin: — bitcoin is a negative-sum game — chronically inefficient as a means of exchange — compromised as a store of value — its price is an arbitrary hype gauge — Apology not needed, IMO. — www.ft.com/content/8533...
Cointelegraph
Bitcoin passes $100K for the first time after rallying 126%+ since January 2024, driven by Bitcoin ETF demand, April's halving, and Donald Trump's election win
Bitcoin has rallied 126% since January to reach $100,000, driven by Bitcoin ETF demand, April's halving and Donald Trump's US election win.
2024-07-15
Great piece by @cwarzel on Altman's and Huffington's “Thrive AI Health”. Two rich entrepreneurs are “asking regular human beings, who may be skeptical or unfamiliar with generative AI, to hand over their most personal and consequential health data to a nagging robot”. 1/6
The Atlantic
An interview with Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington on their startup Thrive AI Health to build an AI health coach, and why AI has become a technology of faith
so he asked them about it. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... @theatlantic : OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and the entrepreneur Arianna Huffington want to remake America's health-care system...
2024-06-13
“We are not approaching this from a perspective of we just need to...quash regulations . . . because we don't have a goal of maximising profit; we have a goal of making sure that AGI benefits all of humanity” #OpenAI: capped-profit, uncapped bullshit https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
OpenAI has expanded its global affairs team from three at the start of 2023 to 35 now, stationed strategically in locations where AI legislation is advanced
ChatGPT maker beefs up global affairs unit as politicians push for new laws that could constrain powerful AI models
“We are not approaching this from a perspective of we just need to...quash regulations . . . because we don't have a goal of maximising profit; we have a goal of making sure that AGI benefits all of humanity” #OpenAI: capped-profit, uncapped bullshit https://www.ft.com/...
The Information
Sources: OpenAI's annualized revenue hits $3.4B, up from ~$1B in summer 2023 and $1.6B in late 2023, with ~$3.2B from subscriptions to its chatbots and API fees
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2023-05-22
There is a “howling irony: the fact that [the #tech industry] brimming with people who espouse liberal, self-consciously progressive opinions so often seems to push the world in the opposite direction”. In-depth portrait of @timnitGebru. #AIethics https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
The Guardian
An interview with AI researcher Timnit Gebru on her controversial sacking by Google in 2020, biases in AI and Big Tech, racism in Silicon Valley, and more
The Ethiopian-born computer scientist lost her job after pointing out the inequalities built into AI.
2023-02-19
What happens when #AI #chatbots meet “human beings who are fundamentally social creatures” in an “age of increasing loneliness and isolation in which, for far too many people, this profound human need is not being adequately met”? good read @LMSacasas https://theconvivialsociety.substack.co m/ ...
The Verge
Microsoft limits Bing chats to five questions per session and 50 questions per day; after five questions, Bing will prompt users to start a new topic
Tom Warren / The Verge :
2023-02-18
What happens when #AI #chatbots meet “human beings who are fundamentally social creatures” in an “age of increasing loneliness and isolation in which, for far too many people, this profound human need is not being adequately met”? good read @LMSacasas https://theconvivialsociety.substack.co m/ ...
New York Magazine
The depictions of various interactions with Bing's AI show that the chatbot is doing what it was trained to do, albeit more broadly than Microsoft would prefer
In his 1976 book, Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, the computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum observed …
What happens when #AI #chatbots meet “human beings who are fundamentally social creatures” in an “age of increasing loneliness and isolation in which, for far too many people, this profound human need is not being adequately met”? good read @LMSacasas https://theconvivialsociety.substack.co m/ ...
The Verge
Microsoft says Bing chats will now be capped at 50 questions per day and five per session; after five questions, Bing will prompt users to start a new topic
Microsoft says it's implementing some conversation limits to its Bing AI just days after the chatbot went off the rails multiple times for users.
2022-05-30
The most serious flaw with #AI-based proctoring systems “may be a human one: educators who overreact when [AI] raises an alert. “Schools seem to be treating it as the word of God...If the computer says you're cheating, you must be cheating” #AutomationBias https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
Proctoring companies like Honorlock that track students' keystrokes and cursor movements during exams to prevent cheating allegedly punish normal behavior
2022-03-14
“we may already be running into scaling limits in #deeplearning”. Bad news for the #AutonomousVehicles industry “which has largely banked on scaling”. If scaling doesn't get us to safe autonomous driving, big investments will have been in vain. @GaryMarcus https://nautil.us/...
Nautilus
A look at the limitations of deep learning, and how “neurosymbolic” approaches to AI could offer a way forward for developing artificial general intelligence
Let me start by saying a few things that seem obvious," Geoffrey Hinton, “Godfather” of deep learning …
2021-04-07
@luke_stark with @EvanSelinger on wrong premises underly emotive imperialism: 1. people can't control their emotions. 2. our emotions are easy to decode based on a simplistic universal scheme. 3. our emotions reveal e.g. whether we're guilty or innocent. https://onezero.medium.com/...
OneZero
Interview with researcher Luke Stark on the promises and pitfalls of emotion-sensing AI, and social media's attempt to translate emotive expression into data
A conversation with the professor who just turned down a $60,000 grant from Google — Emotion A.I., affective computing …
2020-10-26
One of #Palantir's overarching ambitions early on was “to prove that there was a technological solution to the challenge of balancing public safety and civil liberties”. Failed. #surveillance #ICE https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
Profile of Palantir CEO Alex Karp and the controversies around Palantir's trustworthiness; Karp claims his progressivism offsets Thiel's relationship with Trump
2020-09-28
good read. I'm willing to set aside my aversion against the term ‘democratization of AI’ because here it makes sense: OpenAI might become the “defacto arbiter of ethics & morality with regard to the deployment of AI services” #GPT3 https://medium.com/... @mark_riedl ht @dmonett
BusinessInsider
Elon Musk voiced his discontent on Twitter that OpenAI is exclusively licensing GPT-3 to Microsoft saying “OpenAI is essentially captured by Microsoft”
2020-09-27
good read. I'm willing to set aside my aversion against the term ‘democratization of AI’ because here it makes sense: OpenAI might become the “defacto arbiter of ethics & morality with regard to the deployment of AI services” #GPT3 https://medium.com/... @mark_riedl ht @dmonett
BusinessInsider
Elon Musk voiced his discontent on Twitter that OpenAI is exclusively licensing GPT-3 to Microsoft saying “OpenAI is essentially captured by Microsoft”
- Elon Musk voiced his discontent on Twitter that OpenAI — the AI research firm he helped found — is exclusively licensing …
2019-11-27
Great piece! Provocative q: wouldn't it be desirable for the second wave questions (i.e should this exist?) to be asked before the development, let alone the application of #AI ‘solutions’? Or would this stifle innovation entirely? #AIethics @FrankPasquale https://lpeblog.org/...
Law and Political Economy
A look at the state of AI accountability research, which is focused not just on improving existing systems but also on whether such systems should ever be used
and, if so, who gets to govern them”, writes @FrankPasquale https://lpeblog.org/...
2019-10-28
Fascinating approach to moderating political division. The #platform only shows to statements that find support across different groups. messages that divided the groups are made invisible. But isn't it ‘majoritarian’ or even conformist?🤔@carljackmiller https://www.bbc.com/...
BBC
Profile of vTaiwan, a platform created after the 2014 Taiwan protests to deliberate politically contentious issues and break legislative deadlock
Carl Miller / BBC : Tweets: @dorotheabaur , @eszbako , @gquaggiotto , @anneapplebaum , and @anneapplebaum Tweets: Dorothea Baur / @dorotheabaur : Fascinating approach to moderatin...
2019-09-17
Good read on #reproducibility costs: Don't just report the best model which took you 100 experiments but “also the range of performance you would expect if you only had the budget to try it 10 times, or just once” #NeuralNetworks #AI https://www.wired.com/... ht @nigewillson
Wired
AI researchers are beginning to acknowledge and confront the “reproducibility” crisis, which makes it hard for others to replicate the results of AI systems
Machine-learning systems are black boxes even to the researchers that build them. That makes it hard for others to assess the results.
2019-09-09
Great piece by @GaryMarcus: “dystopian speculation arises in large part from thinking about today's mindless #AI systems and extrapolating from them. If all you can calculate is statistical #correlation, you can't conceptualize harm” #causality #AIethics https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
AI must account for basic concepts of how the world works, like time, space, and causality, beyond statistical pattern detection, before it can earn our trust
@GaryMarcus and Ernest Davis @nytopinion https://www.nytimes.com/... Tim O'Reilly / @timoreilly : A refreshingly contrarian perspective on #AI. @garymarcus argues that we need to s...