“I find the research increasingly compelling — this week's example being a case in point: www.nature.com/articles/d41... I look forward to reading your book and having these concerns placed in the context of earlier technological transitions and their attend…”
“What a surprise ….. “Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...”
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Edouard Machery: The literature on cognitive offloading and deskilling should be taken with a serious grain of salt. See literature on video games in the 1980s, see Haidt style literature on social media. The last …
Alondra Nelson: I find the research increasingly compelling — this week's example being a case in point: www.nature.com/articles/d41... I look forward to reading your book and having these concerns placed in the c…
Edouard Machery: The issue, in my opinion, is publication bias and p-hacking. The literature is clearly titled toward finding negative effects - this is what gets in the news etc. As a result I don’t think we can t…
“If everything reported here happens, and the US continues on current trajectory, we're looking at a bad timeline. But there's reason to be wary about both of those "if"s. National security priorities and commercial priorities will be at odds. Saber-rattling…”
“This is a key reason I don’t expect the flow of frontier open weights models to continue indefinitely, or even for very much longer. The gap between open and closed capabilities may soom start to grow, not shrink. www.reuters.com/world/beijin...”
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Ted Underwood: If everything reported here happens, and the US continues on current trajectory, we're looking at a bad timeline. But there's reason to be wary about both of those "if"s. National security prioriti…
Ted Underwood: All that being said, I would love to see EU and/or international initiatives in support of open models.
Ted Underwood: In case opaque: corporations (directly) and nations (indirectly) have an incentive not to restrict distribution of their products. You can make money on open-weights models, and they disrupt compet…
“during the huggingface incident, the OpenAI model left notes to its future self on how to break out of OpenAI’s constraints www.reuters.com/business/its...”
“Reuters has more detail than TIME: www.reuters.com/business/its... These are not serious AI safety researchers. These are YOLO boys speedrunning capitalism.”
““This isn’t something that had really been studied before—how much AI content people are actually seeing,” Max Spero, the CEO of Pangram, told me in a phone interview. “AI content is a tax on readers’ time.” Read now: www.404media.co/linkedin-and...”
“As much as 40 percent of longform posts on LinkedIn and X that users actually see are fully AI-generated, according to new research Particularly notable because we know these platforms are flooded with slop, but this studied what the algorithm actually show…”
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Jason Koebler: As much as 40 percent of longform posts on LinkedIn and X that users actually see are fully AI-generated, according to new research Particularly notable because we know these platforms are flooded …
Meredith Broussard: As much as 40 percent of longform posts on LinkedIn and X that users actually see are fully AI-generated, according to new research Particularly notable because we know these platforms are flooded …
Jason Koebler: As LinkedIn says it's trying to change this, I scroll two seconds and get an AI-generated advertisement by a LinkedIn exec promoting AI. Good stuff
“"I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and it’s impossible to have rational conversations with them about it." AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making”
“Workday Inc. must face claims its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered screening tools discriminated against job applicants based on disability, race, age, and gender. Workday’s screening tools are used by 100s of companies www.hcamag.com/us/specializ...”
“Interesting - AI hiring tool bias "no longer just a vendor problem" in US but a customer / employer one too. CF EU AIA high risk system provider/ deployer. www.hcamag.com/us/specializ...”
Eugene Vinitsky: The AI community failed to exit twitter. What implications can we draw about what people believe from this?
Michael Ekstrand: The AI community failed to exit twitter. What implications can we draw about what people believe from this?
Eugene Vinitsky: Yep! This is why I'm less interested in castigating than building better spaces. This was more an idle exploration of what people must think to justify their behavior
“The expanded class action suit accuses X “of shielding child predators by obstructing police investigations into Grok-generated child sex abuse materials (CSAM).” CW for descriptions of child harm and sexual assault.”
“Reference librarian Hannah Cyrus teaches classes on how to use technology. But that doesn’t mean uncritically embracing it, she says: “I really try to make sure people not only know where to tap or click...but understand the values and issues at play.” www.…”
“Robot dogs, helicopters and humanoids sprinting up and down the aisles - the UN AI for Good Summit is... a lot. But what will it achieve? My latest for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/robot-...”
“Yeah, there are quite a few public domain image archives (LoC, NYPL, PICRYL, PDIA, etc). I wanted to try making an automated pipeline that uses the Segmant Anything Model to auto-detect and auto-clip interesting image segments to stick in an image pool, and…”
Casey Fiesler: Particularly in the context of (appropriate) crackdowns on LLM-generated papers (e.g., on arXiv) and more and more tales of fabricated citations, two reminders: (1) LLMs do not "cite their sources"…
Casey Fiesler: A common comment on my videos about LLM "hallucinations" is that this isn't as much of a problem because LLMs "cite their sources" now. This is a category error. Citing a source implies it was cons…
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: The problem is, I should also simultaneously be doing an information science PhD and a religious studies PhD, because the thing I’m interested in is the sociology of collective information behavior…
Eryk Salvaggio: We really must acknowledge that when you see “AI” making half-assed work it’s because someone looked at it, said “good enough” and shared that half-ass work just to stand by it, point out that it w…
Eryk Salvaggio: Like yes Gen AI UX is designed to encourage half-assery but Netflix is designed to keep you binge watching and we would not tolerate an academic staying up all night watching the Great British Bake…
tante: Every global "Tech4Good" event, every meeting about digital "souvereignity", every summit about innovation has EA folks there poisoning the conversation with their eugenicist, corporatist, colonial…
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Every global "Tech4Good" event, every meeting about digital "souvereignity", every summit about innovation has EA folks there poisoning the conversation with their eugenicist, corporatist, colonial…
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