Category: Posts
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Reblog via Cassie Kozyrkov A field guide to the various species of fake data Continue reading on Towards Data Science »
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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…
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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…
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Reblog via danah boyd 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:…
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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.
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Reblog via Google Alert – “Artificial intelligence” Last month, a draft European Union Artificial Intelligence Act was agreed in the European Parliament. Arguably, the draft Act represents the most …
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Reblog via Emily M. Bender (she/her) ⚡️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…
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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…
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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…
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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 Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: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 Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: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…
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Reblog via Zach Weinersmith Amazingly, I made this several years ago
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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. https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/the-hidden-workforce-that-helped-filter-violence-and-abuse-out-of-chatgpt/ffc2427f-bdd8-47b7-9a4b-27e7267cf413 >>
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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…
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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