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.
Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better. -Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
“A 14-line #python script using a 30-year-old data compression algorithm in combination with a 70-year-old classification algorithm beats modern #deeplearning methods”
A few absolute shockers in the list of websites the Washington Post has revealed are used to train Google's generative AI tools. Apparently including the likes of 4Chan, Breitbart, and RT.
From WaPo:
"Meanwhile, we found several media outlets that rank low on NewsGuard’s independent scale for trustworthiness: RT.com No. 65, the Russian state-backed propaganda site; breitbart.com No. 159, a well-known source for far-right news and opinion; and vdare.com No. 993, an anti-immigration site that has been associated with white supremacy.
"The top Christian site, Grace to You (gty.org No. 164), belongs to Grace Community Church, an evangelical megachurch in California. Christianity Today recently reported that the church counseled women to 'continue to submit' to abusive fathers and husbands and to avoid reporting them to authorities."
Something for your weekend -- we just put scans of the 1965 source code [1] for the chatbot ELIZA and some related material from the Joseph Weizenbaum personal archives online, under open licenses! https://dome.mit.edu/handle/1721.3/201698
Who thought this was a good move apart from OpenAI? 😂 All this, because they didn't want to give humans money and keep everything to top 1%. #machinelearning#artificialintelligence#ChatGPT
The era of Artificial Intelligence is here, and boy are people freaking out. Fortunately, I am here to bring the good news: AI will not destroy the world, and in fact may save it.
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...
It's Follow Friday! Keep up to date on the latest in AI and its impact on business, work, society and tech with these great Magazines (topical feeds of content).
EyeEm, a photo-sharing community once thought to be a potential challenger to Instagram, is now licensing its users’ photos to train AI models, Tech Crunch reports. The company gave users 30 days to opt out. As you can imagine, many of them are upset. Read more: https://flip.it/Yv2xV3 #Tech#Technology#AI#ArtificialIntelligence#Photography
Eventually, people may stop writing, stop filming, stop composing—at least for the open, public web. People will still create, but for small, select audiences, walled-off from the content-hoovering AIs.
If we continue in this direction, the #web—that extraordinary ecosystem of knowledge production—will cease to exist in any useful form.
Have you noticed your Facebook feed being taken over by AI spam recently? @jasonkoebler has spent four months looking into it — what’s real, what’s not and what is a mixture of the two, creating what he calls “a disastrous website where there is little social connection at all.” Read more about his investigation over at @404mediaco.
May 22 (Reuters) - Sam Altman-led #OpenAI has signed a deal to bring News Corp's news content to the #ArtificialIntelligence platform, the companies said on Wednesday. #journalism
“most striking about the tale of the Bell rocket belt is the shape of the deception that Moore and Bell pulled off” #jetpacks
“exactly what the #selfdriving car #robotaxi bros did over the past decade to convince us all that the human driver was already obsolete. The playbook was nearly identical”
“we have vested an alarming amount of power in the hands of #tech#billionaires”
'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.
AI-Generated Data Can Poison Future AI Models - Scientific American (archive.is)
As AI-generated content fills the Internet, it’s corrupting the training data for models to come. What happens when AI eats itself?
AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born (www.theverge.com)
The capacity of AI to generate content is overwhelming the web.
[Marc Andreessen, a16z] Why AI Will Save The World (pmarca.substack.com)
The era of Artificial Intelligence is here, and boy are people freaking out. Fortunately, I am here to bring the good news: AI will not destroy the world, and in fact may save it.