Artificial Intelligence Gerd Public

“But Generative AI has ingested roughly everything on the internet, 45 terabytes of data, and so has a generalist capability that no one has had until now. “So this generative AI technology will absolutely increase all of our productivity,” Lee said. “It will be an accelerant and an augmenter of all of our capabilities.””

The Real Implications of Generative AI
https://peterleyden.substack.com/p/the-real-implications-of-generative?utm_campaign=post
via Instapaper

“Since generative AI excels at pattern matching, it has made facial recognition remarkably accurate (though not without some major flaws). And the same general approach can be used to distinguish between “good” and problematic behavior, based simply on how people move or comport themselves.”

Will Democracies Stand Up to Big Brother? | by Simon Johnson, Daron Acemoglu and Sylvia Barmack - Project Syndicate
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ai-surveillance-industrialized-democracies-must-act-by-simon-johnson-et-al-2023-06
via Instapaper

“Worst-case scenarios could include an eroding of our shared understanding of truth and valid information, leading to more uprisings based on falsehoods – as played out in the 6 January attack on the US capitol. Experts warn further turmoil and even wars could be sparked by the rise in mis- and disinformation.”

Robot takeover? Not quite. Here’s what AI doomsday would look like
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/03/ai-danger-doomsday-chatgpt-robots-fears
via Instapaper

“The Elders warn that the permissive regulatory model used for the development of the Internet is not fit for this purpose. The potential consequences of uncontrolled AI are so catastrophic that the AI industry cannot be left to self-regulate. They note with alarm how many CEOs of AI companies are admitting they are creating systems whose application no-one fully understands, and the recent statement by the Center for AI Safety signed by industry leaders identifying AI as a societal-scale risk comparable to pandemics and nuclear war.”

STATEMENT: The Elders urge global co-operation to manage risks and share benefits of AI
https://theelders.cmail20.com/t/y-e-ptjjilt-jyukikkdul-jl/
via Instapaper

“A question to ask about large language models, then, is where does trustworthiness not matter? Those are the areas where adoption will be fastest.”

Opinion | Beyond the ‘Matrix’ Theory of the Human Mind
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/28/opinion/artificial-intelligence-thinking-minds-concentration.html
via Instapaper

“any threshold has been crossed, however, it is solely in the capacious plasticity of the algorithm. It is most certainly not the threshold between unconscious mechanism and conscious mind. Here is where the myth of Narcissus seems to me especially fitting: the functions of a computer are such wonderfully versatile reflections of our mental agency that at times they take on the haunting appearance of another autonomous rational intellect, just there on the other side of the screen. It is a bewitching illusion, but an illusion all the same”

The myth of machine consciousness makes Narcissus of us all | Psyche Ideas
https://psyche.co/ideas/the-myth-of-machine-consciousness-makes-narcissus-of-us-all
via Instapaper

“That conversation ascribes agency to a tool rather than the humans building the tool,” she says. “That means you can aggregate responsibility: ‘It’s not me that’s the problem. It’s the tool. It’s super-powerful. We don’t know what it’s going to do.’ Well, no – it’s you that’s the problem. You’re building something with certain characteristics for your profit. That’s extremely distracting, and it takes the attention away from real harms and things that we need to do. Right now.””

‘There was all sorts of toxic behaviour’: Timnit Gebru on her sacking by Google, AI’s dangers and big tech’s biases
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/may/22/there-was-all-sorts-of-toxic-behaviour-timnit-gebru-on-her-sacking-by-google-ais-dangers-and-big-techs-biases
via Instapaper

“more bluntly, AI threatens to deepen the dominance of a way of thinking that is white, male, comparatively affluent and focused on the US and Europe.”

‘There was all sorts of toxic behaviour’: Timnit Gebru on her sacking by Google, AI’s dangers and big tech’s biases
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/may/22/there-was-all-sorts-of-toxic-behaviour-timnit-gebru-on-her-sacking-by-google-ais-dangers-and-big-techs-biases
via Instapaper

“The question of whether workers should be compensated when their data helps train an AI system to do their job is the latest example of concerns about the way generative AI tools such as ChatGPT or image generators like Dall-E are created”

You Trained the Chatbot to Do You Job. Why Didn’t You Get Paid?
https://www.wired.com/story/should-you-get-paid-for-teaching-a-chatbot-to-do-your-job/
via Instapaper