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Reblog via Cassie Kozyrkov
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Reblog via Emily M. Bender (she/her)
"@Riedl, professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, said that existential threats are “often reported as fact,” which he added “goes a long way to normalizing, through repetition, the belief that only scenarios that endanger civilization as a whole matter and that other harms are not happening or are not of consequence.”"
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In a recent paper titled “Making AI Less “Thirsty”: Uncovering and Addressing the Secret Water Footprint of AI Models,” […] researchers from the University of Colorado Riverside and the University of Texas Arlington [find that] training GPT-3 in Microsoft’s US data centers can directly consume 700,000 liters of freshwater — equivalent to what it takes to produce 370 BMW cars or 320 Tesla electric vehicles. Additionally, for every conversation of about 20-50 questions and answers you have with ChatGPT, the chatbot “drinks” 500ml of water. [G]iven that the tool was the fastest piece of software to reach the 1 million users mark in history and now has over 100 million users, the total combined footprint is enough to cause concern.
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Can you help me identify everyday examples of mundane low-stakes data modeling failures. We've seen a lot of discussions of supply chain failures and labor shortages. But what about when companies are clearly getting their modeling wrong? (And do they care?) Here's some context and examples that I have to offer: https://medium.com/@zephoria/everyday-mundane-low-stakes-data-modeling-fails-75e1d0554a5c
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Reblog via xkcd.com
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Which European countries have the most AI startups? | Sifted
“Startup-friendly Estonia boasts the most AI startups per million people — 10 — with companies like the Tiger Global-backed unicorn Veriff leading the charge, according to new research by the VC firm Earlybird.”
“Switzerland also punches above its weight when accounting for population. It boasts 67 AI startups including the smart data capture unicorn Scandit. The alpine nation has benefited from having one of Europe’s spinout capitals in ETH Zurich, which counts nine AI founders as alumni.”
Source: Which European countries have the most AI startups? | Sifted
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Reblog via Google Alert – “Artificial intelligence”
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⚡️New! Opening up ChatGPT https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2307.05532
TL;DR #chatgpt is unfit for responsible use in science & education. Open instruction-tuned text generators (LLM + RLHF) are on the rise. But how open are they? We track degrees of openness in this #CUI23 paper & live at https://opening-up-chatgpt.github.io
We hope this paper & repository will help more people make mindful choices about tech
work with @andreasliesenfeld and @alianda
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Reblog via Emily M. Bender (she/her)
Hey #MAIHT3k fans! Our next twitch stream (episode 14) is this Friday. Come listen live while @alex and I chat with Dr. Lucy Suchman about AI hype and military and national security — and take apart AI hype coming from none other than Henry Kissinger + Palantir's applications of LLMs to warmaking.
twitch.tv/dair_institute
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Reblog via Alex Hanna
So incredibly excited that we got the one and only Dr. Lucy Suchman to discuss AI and warmaking/mongering on the next #MAIHT3k.
@emilymbender, Dr. Suchman, and I will discuss AI hype and military and national security — and take apart AI hype coming from none other than Henry Kissinger + Palantir's applications of LLMs to warmaking.
https://twitch.tv/dair_institute
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Reblog via Francis Hunger
Open PhD position in Digital Humanities – From Text to Image with AI!
If you are interested in doing research on multimodal and generative AI in the context of art and culture, check this out: https://shorturl.at/dmq27
A 4-year funded position at @UZH_dsi
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Reblog via #semiotics
I’m reading Reni Yankova’s work on habit based on Peircean #semiotics and somehow I feel there’s a connection to be made with Lisa Feldman Barret’s #meaningMaking…
But it’s still just a hunch 🤔
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Reblog via Zach Weinersmith
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Fortunately, he can tell the precise letter count she’s using.Today’s News:
New minibook launching tomorrow! Stay tuned…
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Reblog via Zach Weinersmith
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Honestly, if you think Present is bad you should’ve seen Past!Today’s News:
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Reblog via Charles Johnson
It’s probably a good idea to repost this incredibly prophetic cartoon from 2014 at regular intervals because every day I see people who still haven’t fully imbibed its message. Apologies if it’s old hat to you.
The Terrible Sea Lion.
https://wondermark.com/c/1k62/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wondermark#Sea_lioning
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Reblog via Teri Kanefield
Writing this week's blog post hurt my head 😂
What took me a while was to connect the thinking behind the plaintiff's arguments in Missouri v. Biden to what Musk is doing on Twitter.
I kept thinking, "There's a connection here." Then, finally 💡
Good thing there is lots of daylight left and lovely weather because it's time for a walk.
https://terikanefield.com/missouri-v-biden-control-for-the-dominance-of-american-media/
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Reblog via Emily M. Bender (she/her)
Have a listen (or read the transcript) and sit for a while with three of the workers who did content moderation for ChatGPT. Thank you @karenhao for this important window into the human impact of this work.
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Reblog via Emily M. Bender (she/her)
Recently, I was asked about the apparent ‘schism’ between those making a lot of noise about fears inspired by fantasies of all-powerful ‘AIs’ going rogue and destroying humanity, and those seeking to illuminate and address actual harms being done in the name of ‘AI’ now and the risks that we see following from increased use of this kind of automation.
I objected strongly to the framing and tried to explain how it was ahistorical. Here is my response in blog form:
https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/talking-about-a-schism-is-ahistorical-3c454a77220f
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Reblog via Bread and Circuses
A timely and rather shocking meme, to which I have added #AltText…
#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
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