'AI can do wonderful things. But civil rights can’t exist in a world of hidden calculations. Just as with a lawyer or doctor, we must have AI that acts in our self-interest. AI needs a constitution — or more accurately, we need a constitution that defines access to artificial intelligence acting solely on our behalf as a civil right'!
We need an constitution for AI not an AI manifesto!
I've contributed a fair bit to free content (CC licenses) & open source projects over the years.
Personally, I want "my" stuff to be used to make AI models better. I use open licenses precisely because I want people to come up with interesting & hopefully beneficial new uses.
I understand why lots of folks feel differently, of course.
However, it's not a clear-cut legal situation, either. Training != inference; it's only model output that violates licenses that's unambiguously infringing.
Some of the anti-#AI backlash seems to go hand in hand with an explicit or implicit defense and support for copyright -- a questionable institution that aggregates power with the Disneys & Apples of this world.
I am very skeptical that a just world is one that still makes heavy use of intellectual monopoly rights to secure individual incomes.
Copyright should, IMO, at best be regarded as a necessary evil, one which we have failed to rid ourselves of along with capitalism.
The #StackOverflow#AI deal, and their reaction to the backlash shows, once again, that corps will gladly take people's good impulses (in this case, the impulse to help our fellow humans without expecting anything back in return), monetise them, and then act like the good impulse was meant to make them money, and that helping others was just incidental.
STACKOVERFLOW should be sued under labor laws for forcing people to be indentured to them as a commodity they get to traffic at will.
StackOverflow is treating the mods trying to delete or change their work as property. this is indentured servitude, if not slavery, on a digital level and a far more massive & pervasive scale than Southern cotton plantations or prisons.
INDENTURED SERVITUDE is supposed to be illegal in the United States. why would it not be in the digital realm?
"Stack Overflow, a legendary internet forum for programmers and developers, is coming under heavy fire from its users after it announced it was partnering with OpenAI to scrub the site's forum posts to train ChatGPT...
#Robot dogs armed with AI-targeting rifles undergo US Marines #SpecialOps evaluation
it's the possibility of arming them with #weapons for remote engagement that may draw the most attention. But it's not unprecedented: The US Marine Corps has also tested robotic dogs armed with rocket launchers in the past. #ai
"Microsoft and OpenAI are reportedly working on a massive datacenter to house an AI-focused supercomputer featuring millions of GPUs. The Information reports that the project could cost "in excess of $115 billion" and that the supercomputer, currently dubbed "Stargate" inside OpenAI, would be U.S.-based."
So much could be done with that amount of money... such a huge waste.
Just finished the re-watch of Person of Interest. Like 10 minutes ago. God damn what a show. Still teary eyed. Needed a good cry after some heavy existential stuff I’ve been going through. The show did not hold back.
From a somewhat campy start with interesting philosopical implications to it’s incredibly heavy, dark, and impactful finish. Glad we re-watched it. Felt more relevant than ever.
Thinking about artificial general intelligence (AGI) calls to mind another poorly understood and speculative phenomenon with the potential for transformative impacts on humankind. We believe that the SETI Institute’s efforts to detect advanced extraterrestrial intelligence demonstrate several valuable concepts that can be adapted for AGI research.
"When the Singaporean government asked local writers if they would agree to having their work used to train a large language model, it probably did not expect the country’s tiny literary community to react so fiercely."
"Stack Overflow, a legendary internet forum for programmers and developers, is coming under heavy fire from its users after it announced it was partnering with OpenAI to scrub the site's forum posts to train ChatGPT." #AIhttps://werd.io/view/663bf07cbcbd1162740fa872
Spotted a running process called "Logi AI Prompt Builder" and have now discovered that my mouse driver auto updated to add a bullshit #AI feature. 😡 #Logitech
#AI#TESCREAL#SiliconValley#BigTech: "So there's this long tradition of consulting people who use technologies to find out what they need, and to find out why technology does or doesn't work for them. And the big message there was that technologists are probably more ill-equipped to understand that than average people, and to see the industry swing back towards tech authority and tech expertise as making decisions about everything, from how technology is built to what future is the best for all of us, is alarming in that sense.
So we can draw from things like user-centered research. This is how I concluded the paper, is just pointing to all the processes and practices we could start using. There's user-centered research, there's participatory processes, there's... Policy gets made often through consulting with groups that are affected by systems, by policies. There are ways of designing technology so that people can feed back straight into it, or we can just set in some regulations that say, in certain cases, it's not acceptable for technology to make a decision.
I think some of what we have to do is get outside of the United States, because some of the more human rights oriented or user-centered policymaking is happening elsewhere, especially in Europe."
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