Mitchell Baker from Mozilla tells the German news agency that we shouldn't "leave AI development to the tech-giants", that somehow "the training data should be controlled by users".
And that does on a surface level sound nice. User control and criticizing tech giants. Great. But it accepts the tech-giants' narrative: That "AI" is inevitable and that all data has to be dumped into these systems, that unfairness is a tech issue to solve with more data. That is not true.
We can also decide not to build these huge and wasteful statistical systems.
Sure there are useful machine learning tools, I spend parts of my day building some, but these overreaching, all-encompassing, general models are a mistake. They promise things that they'll never deliver, are untestable, unverifiable, massively wasteful, express systemic violence (and all the other structural issues @timnitGebru , @mmitchell_ai, @emilymbender and Angelina McMillan-Major have written about).
If there is something in machine learning, it is in small, focused, testable networks.
@tante@timnitGebru@mmitchell_ai@emilymbender It’s like these people look at all the terrible shit in tech—and maybe the world—and offload any intellectual effort needed onto market solutions or magical tech solutions, bc they’re an effortless mental exercise.
“Let’s make education accessible and better” requires more social and mental effort, so it’s easier for them to say “if your English sucks, use this fancy autocorrect” etc
@rhymer@timnitGebru@mmitchell_ai@emilymbender@BMWK especially given that Mr. Andrulis' company got some press recently due to their refusal to filter the (racist) outputs of their large language model. What kind of panel is that gonna achieve?
The panel organizers asked publicly for questions from the interested public and to-be audience. I do not know if they (would) have accepted the "if" question to be discussed tonight.
D'autant que les Zoos sont de plus en plus contestés, ils semblent vouloir traiter les humains comme les animaux en cage dont in devrait pouvoir sonder le psychique jusqu'à la moindre interstice et même en temps réel.
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