While its past has not always been so glorious, John Naughton, thinks that under its new head Sarah Cardell the Competition & Markets Authority has a real chance to save us from the worst excesses in monopoly control of AI by big tech.
Lets hope he's right; the tech bros will be lawyering up their anti-CMA teams even as we read this...
:blobcat_think: I think I've figured out what's been bothering me about this: the text here implies data organises itself.
AI is both the dataset and the organising analysis and management structure that implements decisions/responses based on that dataset.
Where 'Cloud' is an empty marketing term and 'other people's computers' accurately states the real condition, this text here presents only a partial representation of what comprises an AI.
Assuming this is deliberate to highlight the mass theft of data the use of "other people's" from the original phrase doesn't directly state no permission was given for that use. Saying "Just stolen data" would make that point crystal clear.
Sorry. This is pure pedantry from me but it really has been niggling at me since i saw this a week ago. Apparently I'll get no peace if I don't let this out!
He needs a devops or cloud job, ideally in Cali, but will accept remote, or any place that won't hurt his trans family.
Granted, they already live in a place with neighbours who put up MAGA Christmas lights and signs that read "Make California Great Again: Kill a Democrat" so where is "safe", really? :(
If anyone has any leads at all or an in at someplace you work at, please let me know.
Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel says AI will help scientists understand "most diseases" in three to five years.
@Semafor quotes the executive: “The reason we still have people dying of cancer, people suffering from Alzheimer's, is we do not understand the fundamental biology of those diseases.”
[1/2] Surprising findings in brain research 🧠: As a team from #CharitéBerlin shows in #Science, thoughts in the human neocortex flow in one direction ⬆️, as opposed to the loops seen in mice 🔄. That makes processing information extra efficient. These discoveries could further the development of artificial neural networks.
Researchers studying free speech have carried out a report analysing the six major chatbots, to find out whether they embrace international free speech standards.
As reported by @FastCompany, the team found that AI chatbots regularly censor topics that companies deem to be controversial, thanks to "vague and broad" policies.
As AI's integration into all areas of our lives increases, the researchers discuss the wider implications on the right to access information, when chatbots decide what content they will and won't generate.
Facebook’s Meta AI has commented on a post in a parenting group, claiming to have a “gifted, disabled child” while providing feedback on local schools, reports @404mediaco
Meta says its AI chatbot may comment on posts that don’t have any responses after an hour, but is this attempt at maintaining engagement actually killing the authenticity that still remains on some Facebook groups?
Amazon is filled with garbage ebooks, often a result of keyword scrapers finding trending topics, and then so-called publishers using AI and cheap ghostwriters to generate books. "If, as they used to say, everyone has a book in them, AI has created a world where tech utopianists dream openly about excising the human part of writing a book — any amount of artistry or craft or even just sheer effort — and replacing it with machine-generated streams of text," writes Vox's Constance Grady. Here's her story about the underbelly of online self-publishing.
The phrase “AI” has been poisoned so hard that nobody building serious products should use it. I would love to see more free software projects leverage computer vision or natural language processing for example, but I would never describe those as “AI” because it’s a brand destroying phrase at this point
@danirabbit No joke. At this point, most #marketing copy using the terms "AI" or "artificial intelligence" really just means "uses computer."
For real, my security camera is not using #AI to find humans in the frame. That's basic #ImageProcessing that's been around for years. My #DSLR could accurately fimd and focus on faces a decade ago. That certainly was not #ArtificialIntelligence!
Most workers would likely agree — it’d be nice to have someone else fill in for them once in a while. And, better yet, get paid for it. London-based model Alexsandrah has experienced a real-life version of this daydream with help from her AI-generated virtual twin that has appeared as a stand-in on a photo shoot. Is this the future of modeling? Here’s what proponents and critics are saying in this report from the Associated Press. https://flip.it/DYjnSC #Tech#Technology#AI#ArtificialIntelligence