Can Generative #AI improve social science? https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2314021121?TOC_v121_i21 That's a reasonable discussion of the advantages and risks, including limited reproducibility of using LLMs.
An open AI infrastructure for LLMs seems reasonable. Maybe funding agencies can support first steps in this direction @academicchatter
I am trying ever so hard to cultivate a positive attitude around AI. It’s hard!
Despite the avalanche of graphic monstrosities, the confident misinformation, the collapse of essay-based assessments in schools (not actually a bad thing, if it leads to more on-site, project-based learning).
I’m trying to see it as a tool that can complement (not replace) good design and knowledge management.
There was a paper shared recently about the exponential amount of training data to get incremental performance gains in #llm#ai, but I seem to have misplaced it. Do you know what I’m referring to? Mind sharing the link if you have it?
"The significance of this development is profound: If AI provides the answers to all the searches that you’re looking for, there is no need to click on the source articles that provide the answers. If you don’t click on the source articles, the publishers do not receive any ad revenue, and if the publishers do not receive ad revenue, they cannot pay their writers to provide the answers for Google’s AI to steal."
« #AI is a marketing term, not a technical term of art. The term “artificial intelligence” was coined in 1956 by cognitive & computer scientist John McCarthy ... McCarthy is very clear about why he invented the term. First, he didn’t want to include the mathematician & philosopher Norbert Wiener in a workshop he was hosting that summer ... Wiener had already coined the term “cybernetics,” under whose umbrella the field was then organized.»
I watched #Atlas last night on #Netflix recommendation. i.e. J-Lo battles robots in a mech suit
I enjoyed it. Well, I enjoyed it while I also programmed on my second monitor. What I can say is that the plot is quite thin; the contrivances are quite contrived.
But what I saw was a more interesting film of childhood trauma and how it drives us as adults. The acting was critiqued on imdb, but I thought it was subtle, damaged, and the best part of the movie's themes.
What if we deliberately poisoned the #AI well by posting predictive text spam every once in a while?
That was the last thing you were saying to the other guy and I thought he said that I would be there in the afternoon but he was in a good place for me and he was in a good place and he said it would have to go through it to me but he was not able and he said it would have to go through it to the office to get the other stuff done but he was in a good way and I didn't think it would have been a
"... it’s imperative that we recognize mass surveillance – and ultimately the surveillance business model – as the root of the large-scale tech we’re currently calling #AI
Dear #LazyWeb: What is needed to get Google to show me fun AI suggestions like adding glue to pizza sauce? How do I get the fake-#AI results?
I am not kidding. Most of my searches are on macOS (12 & 14) using Safari and occasionally other browsers (I've got 7 installed...) but I only log into my G accounts on an as-needed basis and because I use a real mail client for email, I almost never need to log in. I wipe cookies on every browser restart.
"...[Sara] says after her bag was searched she was... banned from all stores using the #Technology.
"I was just crying and crying the entire journey home… 'Oh, will my life be the same? I'm going to be looked at as a shoplifter when I've never stolen'.
"#Facewatch later wrote to Sara and acknowledged it had made an error..."
Elon Musk will build a supercomputer for Grok AI chatbot development (www.infoterkiniviral.com)
Elon Musk announced this month that his artificial intelligence (AI) company xAI plans to build a supercomputer