Just listened to this and thought it was worth sharing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EY2QDfp2O4

"Are we on the verge of an AI apocalypse, or is Silicon Valley using doomsday fears to distract us from the damage AI is already doing? Tech insiders and Big Tech CEOs warn that superintelligence could wipe out humanity. Meanwhile, AI is already fuelling warfare and environmental destruction, with zero accountability. If the very people warning us about AI's dangers also stand to profit from it, is existential doom a genuine warning or the ultimate marketing strategy?

This week on The Tea, we're joined by pioneering AI researcher Dr Timnit Gebru, former co-lead of Google's Ethical AI team. Timnit warned about the dangers of large language models years before the current AI boom. In this interview, she exposes the motives and the ideology behind Silicon Valley's apocalyptic vision."

Pile Of Opposed People!

Hi, I'm new here. I mean, I've been reading but I haven't commented before.

I'm sure you all know about how cheap labour is used for labelling data for training "AI" systems, but I just came across this video and wanted to share. Apologies if it has already been posted: Training AI takes heavy toll on Kenyans working for $2 an hour.

https://theonion.com/...

Ryanair now makes you install their app instead of allowing you to just print and scan your ticket at the airport, claiming it's "better for our environment (gets rid of 300 tonnes of paper annually)." Then you log in into the app and you see there's an update about your flight, but you don't see what it's about. You need to open an update video, which, of course, is a generated video of an avatar reading it out for you. I bet that's better for the environment than using some of these weird symbols that I was putting into a box and that have now magically appeared on your screen and are making you feel annoyed (in the future for me, but present for you).

Just saw on r/sneerclub:

Department of War CTO twitted: "The United States will NEVER be an effective altruist country. 🇺🇸"

And there's a photo of Trump with the text: "AMERICANISM, NOT EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM!"

Here's the reddit post: https://old.reddit.com/...

Relevant: Open letter on the suspension of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University.

OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment.

Thread on r/technology.

edited to add:

From his personal website: When does generative AI qualify for fair use?

This is fucking stupid. And now my day is ruined because I got annoyed thinking about this idea.

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism

https://quitgpt.org/

Just received a newsletter from Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 about their book The AI Con - How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want being available for preorder. I'm looking forward to it!

Guardian reporting it: https://www.theguardian.com/...

They do have a partnership with OpenAI though: https://www.theguardian.com/...

Novara media also drinking the kool aid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnqZNnWU8Kg which is disappointing.

Congrats on the documentary! I watched it last month and I've been recommending it to others.

Yeah, he seems to be the rational one when it comes to all of this AI (SI?) doom talk.

I think this is a better link: https://fortune.com/...

It links also to an article on effective altruism: https://fortune.com/...

I thought we all agreed that 4 was the random number.

I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but a friend from the field is wondering if there are any examples of good AI companies out there? With AI not meaning LLM companies. Thanks!

https://www.theguardian.com/...

Will this be any good?

... but the output is not deterministic as the letter count is sampled from a distribution of possible letter counts for a given word and letter pair; count ~ p(count | word = "blueberry", letter = 'b')!

Wouldn't whoever is running the bot just be able to do a quick .replace() before feeding the raw data into it? What would be funnier is to get the bot to generate the string itself and then stop, without it being obiously present in the input. :)

https://xkcd.com/221/