The term „chatGPT” has been among the top 10 viewed #Wikipedia entries in the last 3 weeks. This is interesting in many ways. Especially that “AI” is not on the list. It’s #chatGPT that people want to know about, the mysterious acronym. #AI is either not on their minds - despite all the media and industry hype - or it is like magic, not to be investigated. ChatGPT is a pretty bad name, as far as names go, and it’s getting normalised quickly (but not yet commodified)
Since ChatGPT's takeoff, AI critics have conjectured over the future dangers it could bring forth. Former co-leader of Google's ethical AI team, Timnit Gebru, talks about how the technology reflects current inequities within Big Tech and how she hopes to mitigate that with her work today.
"This is not a remotely fair deal for those of us on the 'putting stuff up on the web for free' side of the equation. It doesn’t matter whether it’s illegal or not—though legislation is probably the only way to get the tech industry to stop it—because the social contract is broken." @baldur
Baldur's clear-eyed takes on the hype and risks of tech's current fascination with #AI continues. Has the #Cluetrain been derailed? ☹️
🚀 Michio Kaku: The next destination for humanity is becoming a Type 1 civilization! 💡 Our inventions have the power to go global in an instant, and we're just getting started.
This Communiqué from the G7 governments is worth a read, because beyond all the geopolitical aspects, they do get into “Digital” down around paragraphs 38 and 39… and in there they touch on #AI, #metaverse, #InternetAccess, #InternetFragmentation, and so much more…
Granted, this is all just words… yet to be seen as to what actually happens… but they ARE words from the leaders of 7 major nations!
“AI threatens to deepen the dominance of a way of thinking that is white, male, comparatively affluent and focused on the US and Europe.”
"An industry brimming with people who espouse liberal, self-consciously progressive opinions so often seems to push the world in the opposite direction."
“I think it made it really clear that unless there is external pressure to do something different, companies are not just going to self-regulate. We need regulation and we need something better than just a profit motive.”
I'm fascinated by the weird clip art people use to illustrate stories about AI.
I'm fascinated, too, by the differences between American & Eastern European approaches to that AI art.
(Left: Popular Mechanics. Right: ForkLog) #AI#ChatGPT#LLM
Screenshot: Morgan Fairchild @morgfair: Scammers are now using Al to sound like family members. It's working. - The Washington Post They thought loved ones were calling for help. It was an Al scam.
I made an object recognition program in #python and the dataset seemed more suitable to recognize stuffs on the street so that’s where I end up. Great for educational purpose but definitely makes me think about the ethical abuses of #ai today and in a near future. #computervision#opencv#numpy#tensorflow#classification
"I can call the Pentagon and say, 'I'd like to talk to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the top military man, and he's either going to talk or maybe not. AI can't do that." BBC News talks to Watergate reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein about chatbots like ChatGPT and the challenges they pose to the future of journalism. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-65609965 #AI#ChatGPT#Journalism
I fundamentally don't get "writing" a story using #AI. Why? What's the point? It would be like getting a robot to run a marathon for you. Where's the accomplishment? Where's the pride? (And that's before we consider that it's almost certainly an unoriginal, derivative story).