“The concern is that machine-generated content has to be balanced with a lot of human review and would overwhelm lesser-known wikis with bad content. While #AI generators are useful for writing believable, human-like text, they are also prone to including erroneous information, and even citing sources and academic papers which don’t exist.”
The Copyright Office extended the deadline to submit comments on its notice of inquiry on copyright & artificial intelligence. Initial written comments are now due by Monday, October 30, 2023, and reply comments are now due by Wednesday, November 29, 2023.
Effective altruists and longtermists have infiltrated the UK’s AI policy discussions, leaving the real harms unaddressed while the focus is placed on “existential risks” fueled by the obsessions of rich tech funders.
It gathers a lot of data and interesting observations. Here are the ones that struck me the most:
📌 Generative #artificialintelligence excels in tasks that require natural language processing and content creation, outperforming humans in terms of speed and cost-effectiveness.
📌 Generative AI's efficiency impacts high-value tasks in white-collar roles, potentially offering comparable performance to humans at a fraction of the cost.
A new crop of artificial intelligence tools carries the promise of streamlining tasks, improving efficiency and boosting productivity in the workplace. But that hasn’t been Neil Clarke’s experience so far.
The AI generated code absolutely does not care about #unicode at all, so it panics, when you give it a unicode character that happens to not have their char boundary at byte index 1.
If you know anything about how #AI is changing the game for subtitling and dubbing translation, please share links with me below.
I’d love to know more about stuff such as machine translation post-editing for subtitling. I’ve never done it, so it’d be useful to hear about other translators’ experience.
The pursuit of the most advanced AI—human-like artificial general intelligence—has prompted concerns among experts about potential dangers if it runs amok.
Advances in artificial intelligence have prompted extensive public concern about its capacity to contribute to the spread of misinformation, bias, and cybersecurity breaches—and its potential existential threat to humanity. But, if anything, AI can aid human beings in making decisions aimed at improving social equality,...
'It almost doubled our workload': AI is supposed to make jobs easier. These workers disagree | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
A new crop of artificial intelligence tools carries the promise of streamlining tasks, improving efficiency and boosting productivity in the workplace. But that hasn’t been Neil Clarke’s experience so far.
'This is the last opportunity for us to wake up': A leading economist warns we're headed for an AI-driven cataclysm (www.businessinsider.com)
How Daron Acemoglu, one of the world's most respected experts on the economic effects of technology, learned to start worrying and fear AI.
Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors (futurism.com)
Microsoft is betting on small modular nuclear reactors to grow its energy infrastructure for training AI, a highly ambitious plan.
China aims to replicate human brain in bid to dominate global AI (www.newsweek.com)
The pursuit of the most advanced AI—human-like artificial general intelligence—has prompted concerns among experts about potential dangers if it runs amok.
If you worry about humanity, you should be more scared of humans than of AI (thebulletin.org)
Advances in artificial intelligence have prompted extensive public concern about its capacity to contribute to the spread of misinformation, bias, and cybersecurity breaches—and its potential existential threat to humanity. But, if anything, AI can aid human beings in making decisions aimed at improving social equality,...
Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas (www.theguardian.com)
Pak ‘n’ Save’s Savey Meal-bot cheerfully created unappealing recipes when customers experimented with non-grocery household items
ChatGPT Use Declined for the First Time Since Launch (tech.co)
Monthly traffic and unique visitors were down in June, the first sign of decline since it launched in November.