"That was a rigged election," says Donald Trump at the top of his appearance on CNN 'Town Hall' from #NewHampshire about #Election2020, repeating previous lies. "They were stuffing ballot boxes."
Anyone else betting #ai models this decade will follow the trajectory of social media last decade; In 10 years time folk will be getting what the tech-savvy folk wanted from the start - an open solution everyone can contribute to and use as they want?
1/ Today the #2024Election kicks off in earnest with #JoeBiden’s re-election bid announcement
There is 560 days to the #PresidentialElection. Much will happen, conditions will change but it as #Biden suggests a continuation of the battle for the soul of America
I’ll use this thread to comment periodically on the election over the next 80 weeks. It’s a long road to #ElectionDay2024, but the stakes couldn’t be higher
@davidak Thinking in prompt systems is something I’ve been also trying to explain to people lately. Thanks for this one, it’s almost the perfect example to show to them!
As a programmer, I use #LLM-based autocomplete daily.
My career spans almost 30 years now, and there is a issue in #programming which is usually referred to as #copypasta. It is a combination term from A) #spaghetti code which means the code has bad organisation and lacks structural rules B) mindlessly copying something.
Enough ”doing the same thing over and over again” can slowly turn even the best codebase into a badly organised mess, as the code no longer reflects the big picture.
#machinelearning that I use is simply perfect for creating copypasta. This can probably boost efficiency for a some junior-level tasks, but relying on it too much can also risk deteriorating the quality of your codebase.
Extrapolating from this to what our society is going to face as ML tools augment our communication, I feel we might need to be prepared for a lot more copypasta that does the job, but #tangles with itself in ways that make it harder to see what is actually happening.
Within a year or two, we will be able to actually talk to animals. We won’t be able to really understand what they mean, but the language probably won’t be the problem.
@JohanEmpa Yes. But the model input would be more than that. Think:
Dog A is the real dog
Dog B is the ML
You specify the position, speed, posture and other aspects of dog B, and the model will spit out how the dog would move and bark in the next 2 seconds.
This article describes how journalists sent photographs across the Atlantic “instantly” in 1926. The most amazing thing to me is that the image is literally digitized into “pixels” along a helical scanline, quantized into 5 levels of gray—all through analog means.
So utterly fascinating.
An enterprising person could have used the 5 hole punches to encode 32 levels of gray, or used maybe 3 holes to encode 8 levels of gray, saving 40% of the transmission cost at the expense of making the machines more complicated…
I'm probably late to the party on this, but I just saw it linked somewhere today (lost the reference) and just watched it tonight. These guys really know how to explain things to non-technical people. It's really worth watching, but you need to set aside an hour!
I had a vague layman's uneasiness about #AI until now...
The UK and US have intervened in the race to develop ever more powerful #AI technology, as the British competition watchdog launched a review of the sector and the White House advised tech firms of their fundamental responsibility to develop safe products
@ellent Safety protocols for commercial actors in the AI space are one aspect of the problem, but as a whole just regulating companies isn’t even cutting it close.
The #opensource community has answered the call of developing lighter #training techiques, which I predict will make training AI capable of fooling 98% of the population available to anyone by 2025.
Yes, this means the nasty people. Populists, fascists, nazis.
We need #verification systems for humans and truthfull reporting, now.
Once again Ted Chiang has it exactly right. The immediate danger from #AI is not that it will become sentient and do whatever it wants. The danger is that it will do what it’s being designed to do: help rich corporations destroy the working class in pursuit of ever-greater profits and thus concentrate wealth in fewer and fewer hands.
@JamesGleick with the recent advances in #opensource#training#techniques, AI will be available to everyone. And if I know human nature at all it will be first applied by malicious actors, only one of them being capital as specified here.
The steps taken by society to mitigate should be #verification of humans and verification of accurate reporting.
AI for every kind of social and political mischief imaginable will be available by 2025.
Governments need to act, stop looking at business.
Siinä vaiheessa kun kansanedustaja huutaa kovaan ääneen että poliitikkojen tulisi puuttua jonkin median lähettämään sisältöön ollaan jo koputtelemassa fasismin ovella #hallitusneuvottelut#kokoomus#persut#Yle
Populisteilla on meneillään paha paikka kun pitäisi samaan aikaan esittää vahvaa huutamalla pää punaisena ja yrittää saada ulkoa syy päästä oppositioon. Hehän eivät koskaan oikeasti halua demokraattiseen hallitukseen, koska se tarkoittaa kompromisseja ja heidän äänestäjänsä eivät osaa tehdä kompromisseja.
@valoisa Ei se koskaan ole ollut pihalla. Perussuomalaisen puolueen tavoite ja linja ovat olleet selviä alusta alkaen: Poistaa #valta muilta kuin itseltään.