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pheras, 5 days ago to random Spanish

"The use of probabilistic techniques to determine who is worthy of death – wherever they’re used – is, to me, the most chilling example of the serious dangers of the current centralized AI industry ecosystem, and of the very material risks of believing the bombastic claims of intelligence and accuracy that are used to market these inaccurate systems."

Read the whole piece by @Mer__edith

https://www.helmut-schmidt.de/aktuelles/detail/die-rede-der-zukunftspreistraegerin

pheras, 2 months ago to random Spanish

"A group of researchers backed by the French government have released what is thought to be the largest AI training dataset composed entirely of text that is in the public domain. And the nonprofit Fairly Trained announced that it has awarded its first certification for a large language model built without copyright infringement, showing that technology like that behind ChatGPT can be built in a different way to the AI industry’s contentious norm.'

https://www.wired.com/story/proof-you-can-train-ai-without-slurping-copyrighted-content/ @jgbarah

pheras, 3 months ago to random

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/23/gazeteer/#out-of-cycle by @pluralistic

pheras, 1 month ago to random

It does not matter if you are paying or not for a service offered by a cloud platform. It does not matter if in fact the platform is your client

What should worry you is if you have the freedom to leave that platform

And you can only gain that freedom by fighting with the law the companies that want to retain you in their platforms, either as a client or as a provider

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/22/kargo-kult-kaptialism/#dont-buy-it

By @pluralistic

pheras, 3 months ago to random

Does anyone even want an AI search engine? by Ryan Broderick. Through @pluralistic

https://www.garbageday.email/p/ai-search-doomsday-cult

(long version) https://www.fastcompany.com/91033052/does-anyone-even-want-an-ai-search-engine

pheras, 11 months ago to random Spanish

How the brain achieves consciousness?

Nobody knows. The quest continues.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02120-8

pheras, 9 months ago to random Spanish

New book from @pluralistic about how to seize the means of computation

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/the-internet-con-how-to-seize-the-means-of-computation

pheras, 9 months ago to random Spanish

AI in 1953: even before the acronym was coined the hype was already there

Featuring Shannon, Wiener, machine learning, robotics,...

https://youtu.be/NN7mlicU95w?feature=shared

via @timnitGebru

pheras, 5 months ago to random Spanish

@brianmerchant and @pluralistic write about the future and the aftermath of the AI bubble blast

1/ https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-12-14/column-this-was-the-year-of-ai-next-year-is-when-you-have-to-worry

2/ https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/

pheras, 3 months ago to random

AI in education is a public problem. By Ben Williamson.

"These 21 arguments against AI in education demonstrate how AI cannot be considered inevitable, beneficial or transformative in any straightforward way. You do not even need to take a strongly normative perspective either way to see that AI in education is highly contested and controversial. "

https://codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2024/02/22/ai-in-education-is-a-public-problem/

pheras, 1 month ago to random Spanish

"Social Media Authoritarianism and the World As It Is"

By
@Mer__edith

https://lpeproject.org/blog/social-media-authoritarianism-and-the-world-as-it-is/

pheras, 11 months ago to random Spanish

How Eugenics shaped statistics

https://nautil.us/how-eugenics-shaped-statistics-238014/

via @timnitGebru

pheras, 1 year ago to random

Higher Ed as a Public Good

and

Higher Ed for the Public Good

by Professor Moshe Y. Vardi @vardi , Rice University

https://medium.com/@vardi/higher-ed-as-a-public-good-2534759b339c

pheras, 11 months ago to random Spanish

Ayyyyyyu-Eyeeeee

The lie that raced around the world before the truth got its boots on.

by @pluralistic
https://doctorow.medium.com/ayyyyyy-eyeeeee-4ac92fa2eed

pheras, 7 days ago to random Spanish

AI TAIms

ProgrAImming LAInguages and CompAIlers

https://githubnext.com/projects/speclang/

OperAIting SystAIms for Personal ComputAIrs

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/technologyinvesting/microsoft-previews-new-copilot-pc-initiative-in-new-bid-to-revitalize-windows-with-ai/ar-BB1mJfsN

pheras, 7 days ago to random

Tres españoles con tres visiones sobre China:

Martín @ma_wukong

https://youtube.com/watch?v=i5hhmFHFAl4

Íñigo González Inchaurraga
https://youtube.com/watch?v=b0R_Nw-wDv0 (primeros minutos)

Josep Baqués
https://youtube.com/watch?t=1399&v=b0R_Nw-wDv0&feature=youtu.be (minuto 23'19")

pheras, 6 days ago to random

OpenAI Just Gave Away the Entire Game

The Scarlett Johansson debacle is a microcosm of AI’s raw deal: It’s happening, and you can’t stop it.

By Charlie Warzel in The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/05/openai-scarlett-johansson-sky/678446/?gift=bQgJMMVzeo8RHHcE1_KM0cAsfiV3ILA-iN9lz8rJRZw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

pheras, 6 days ago to random Spanish

Cover Agent: Automatic generation of unit tests

https://github.com/Codium-ai/cover-agent

pheras, 3 days ago to random

FizzBee is a formal specification language and model checker to specify distributed systems.

https://fizzbee.io/

https://thenewstack.io/introducing-fizzbee-simplifying-formal-methods-for-all/

pheras, 7 days ago to random

"Most Software Engineers Know Nothing About Hardware
On the other hand, most hardware engineers know nothing about software."

https://analyticsindiamag.com/most-software-engineers-know-nothing-about-hardware/

pheras, 4 days ago to random

America vs Everybody: Will The US Win The Chip Race?

Interview with Philip Wong, professor in the School of Engineering, at Stanford University, former Vice President of Corporate Research at TSMC (2018—2020) and current Chief Scientist of TSMC in a consulting and advisory role.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz_buAN5-Bo

via @arnaudbertrand

pheras, 3 days ago to random

Is Stack Overflow Obsolete? An Empirical Study of the
Characteristics of ChatGPT Answers to Stack Overflow Questions

PDF: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3613904.3642596

via @garymarcus

pheras, 3 days ago to random

About pointers, Rust differentiation between mutable and aliased state, history before Rust, formal methods, LLMs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40375341#40379428

pheras, 2 days ago to random Spanish

"The purpose of this primer is to publicly expose Microsoft’s complicity in Israeli apartheid and genocide against the people of Palestine, and to connect technology workers to the No Azure for Apartheid campaign."

https://medium.com/@notechforapartheid/a-marriage-made-in-hell-an-introduction-to-microsofts-complicity-in-apartheid-and-genocide-d7dfad65a196

pheras, 3 days ago to random Spanish

Jamming in Ukraine war
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/24/russia-jamming-us-weapons-ukraine/