The Who's Who of AI

““The message that I always bring when I have a chance is that, when the text that comes out of one of these systems makes sense, it’s because we are making sense of it. This is also in the stochastic parrots paper.””

“and this with Cosma is in part about how the two ideas fit together knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a...”

“(Sorry, that's "AI as Social Technology": knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a...)”

“just like they did when they stole TikTok, they're going to use xenophobia and a fake concern for national security to undermine on-device open source AI alternatives to protect the biggest companies' expensive walled garden AI empires”

“More details of the various Congressional investigations and potential approaches including federal procurement bans being considered are below.”

“An app is a webpage wrapped in the right kind of IP law to make it a felony to change how it works, which is why companies are infinitely horny to get you to use their apps, not their websites: pluralistic.net/2024/05/07/t... 19/”

“Anthony Albanese used his first major speech on AI to call it an urgent challenge and opportunity for Australia. The speech — announcing a new Office of AI and data centre standards — signaled that Australia is taking AI seriously but saved the tough decisi…”

“"no new money flagged and there were no real new powers announced. For all the challenges mentioned across government, there was little new information about how we're going to handle the society-wide impacts of AI outside of data centres" Do-nothing data c…”

“Reminder that Nolan himself rejected the #AIregulation Oppenheimer moment, because a PIL Treaty institution could never act fast enough or be binding www.theguardian.com/technology/2...”

“Clown"On nuclear, international agreement came only after the world saw the terrifying power of the new technology at Hiroshima – and asked what would happen if it fell into the wrong hands. We cannot afford to wait for an AI equivalent of Hiroshima before …”