After watching OpenAI's presentation and, even more, an excerpt from Google's presentation yesterday, I asked myself: is this AI, according to the big tech companies (especially Google - for OpenAI it's their core business, so I understand their perspective), truly what users want and need, or is it just another method to lock people into using their technologies, which are not easily self-hostable?
I'm not arguing for or against it, but I noticed that (almost) the entire Google I/O yesterday was focused on this...
@stefano I'm very cautious when it comes to emerging technologies due to this. I'm sure we've all seen our fair share of how companies like to vendor lock customers into utilizing a feature out of convenience. (Think about AWS for instance, there are so many case in point examples of how certain cloud providers try to lock you in to using their platform because the tools manage things for you) I think one of the biggest things that pro and anti ai people can agree on is that something like ChatGPT is a security risk due to the fact it very easily can leak confidential information fed into it. I've heard from my friends who work at companies that utilize LLMs for a specific purpose that is one of their primary concerns, and is why they shifted from using things like OpenAI to having an in house LLM that they can tightly control the dataset for. Google in particular worries me because they have a long track record of privacy violations stemming back to their first releases of Gmail. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/15/gmail-scans-all-emails-new-google-terms-clarify
"One of the assumptions built into these calls is that if the tech community would just nerd harder, a solution could be somehow magically found that preserved privacy and security while letting the ‘good guys’ have access. With all respect to the valuable work that law enforcement does to protect society, it’s equally as valid to as them to just police harder." https://www.mnot.net/blog/2024/04/29/power#futurology#art#technology#cyberpunk#innovation#change#futuretech#futurism
@news@datasciencejobs My bad I have been following the #datascience hash tag so that is why I am seeing all these posts in my home feed without following the account. I forgot about it. Sorry for the inconvenience.
@news Oh, my heavens. How did I miss that you have this newsletter, as well? Clearly I need to get my RADAR checked. 😀 Thanks so much for posting this.
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