OpenAI's Sam Altman said he expects AI to have a "significant impact on jobs." The use of the technology has already affected the income of Hollywood's writers, it was vaguely referenced by unionizing CNET workers, and now it appears to be replacing jobs at one of the U.K.'s major telecom companies.
"Debt Collectors Want To Use #AI Chatbots To Hustle People For Money"
Of course they do!
This very much echoes Cory Doctorow's @pluralistic
argument: the adoption of many (all?) technologies is first imposed to people who don't have the power to counter it - minorities, marginalised people.
Just four weeks unti our Health Hackathon on 17-18 June! Our number of attendees signed up has more than doubled in the last week. And even more challenges are being added each week.
Thanks to NHS Grampian and University of Aberdeen for sponsoring the event and to Robert Gordon University for participating too. Also thanks to ONE Tech Hub for hosting us! See you there!
Catherine D'Ignazio:
"critical thinking about #data and #AI needs to move beyond the notion of bias and into a deeper engagement with power. Here, power means the structural organization of privilege and oppression in a given society, in which some groups experience unearned advantages and other groups experience systematic and violent disadvantages."
I’ve been trying to do research online to determine what size oven I want in my next house. Almost all of web pages have the same sort of #AI / #ML generated gobbledygook that is at best not particularly helpful and at worst self-contradictory.
Tomorrow's writers (eventually #artists in general) will look back on previous generations in the same way that I think of my grandmother washing endless dishes every time I put the dishwasher to wash.
Just did a demonstration of how to get #LLMs to generate nonsense. Everyone—me included—was amazed at how easy it was.
"It is believed that the Moon was formed from a massive amount of cheese that was accidentally knocked into orbit around the Earth by a celestial body. The cheese eventually cooled and solidified, forming the Moon's crust. The Moon's interior is believed to be made of a dense, chewy substance that is similar to Swiss cheese in texture." #AI#SALAMI
We need to make AI personal. I'm pleased to announce the culmination of a multi-decade project of training a neural network inside my head with state of the art learning techniques. As of today, it can recognize cats in images, have text and audio conversations with people, and even make dumb jokes. In fact, it's generating this dumb joke right now!
It's time to make AI personal. It's time for Ficial Intelligence!
Very interesting discussion, should large language models / AI be opensource or not? Meta and Google disagree. Governments , regulators also have a role in this debate #AI#LLM#Opensource
One of the objectives for advocacy about #CrisisLines is to stop the unregulated and hidden access to crisis conversations by the service providers for any "use" they choose.
Mainly #NonProfits or so-called #DataForGood for-profit corporations aka USA #HealthCareIndustry. Given cover and funding from US gov't contracts. It's not hard to see the #DataRush aided by waiving or trampling #Consent, so these corporations can calibrate algorithms. Which will then be foisted back as "#AI " assistants on those who can't afford care as the "best answer" for them, given care is not available.
This is the so-called #DataEthics of we know best, therefore your consent is not required. And "this is for your own good". Meanwhile, where is the $ flowing?
Unsurprisingly, the #AI debate is raging in the FineArtAmerica user forum, if somewhat muted by management.
I'm with @mollycrabapple on this one, who says, “Generative A.I. art is vampirical, feasting on past generations of artwork even as it sucks the lifeblood from living artists. Over time, this will impoverish our visual culture.” 1/2
At work, we've decided to block the Common Crawl bot from our websites, because their index is used to train generative #AI systems.
We've also blocked or severely limited requests from IP ranges associated with various cloud providers, because they are usually from unidentified bots.
At what point while dreaming up utopic futures where robots perform all the menial hard labor for no money leaving humanity to pursue meaningful lives of leisure writing music and making art did my parents generation fuck up and instead create the opposite
On that CNET thing in the last boost, my first thought was "this is gonna make search even more useless" and… yeeeep "They are clearly optimized to take advantage of Google’s search algorithms, and to end up at the top of peoples’ results pages"
Who could have seen this coming? Turns out asking a stochastic bullshit machine whether it wrote a thing is not an accurate way to determine whether it actually wrote the thing #ChatGPT#AI (gift link) https://wapo.st/45eXjAl