Excellent video (in Spanish, with Spanish & English subtitles) from @ArteEsEtica and @DAIRInstitute 's Data Worker's Inquiry: "Art and "Generative AI" are NOT Equal" https://
data-workers.org/arte-es-etica/
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Art and Generative AI Inequality: Critical Analysis
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Hinton’s Understanding Claims: Bender & Koller’s Critique Revisited
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Hinton gave a whole talk at ACL 2023 about LLMs "understanding" without actually defining the term. When I pressed him on that, he said "no one else has defined it either". I said he should read Bender & Koller 2020…
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Turing’s Paper Discussion on Our Opinions Are Correct
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@alexhanna and I had a blast digging into Turing's paper on the Our Opinions Are Correct podcat with Charlie Jane and Annalee:
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Tesla’s Self-Driving Program Uses Public as Crash Test Dummies
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I thought this was going to be a story about ensuring that Tesla's #FakeSelfDriving behaved like an asshole driver, but in fact it's a story about how Tesla is using us all as crash-test dummies by relying on random YouTubers to test their bad software. https://
businessinsider.com/tesla-prioriti
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Stop Anthropomorphizing AI: Chatbots Don’t Feel Anything
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Also, psst, Axios: chatbots don't "feel" anything. Please avoid anthropomorphizing language in your reporting.
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Washington Post’s AI Chatbot Contradicts Climate Crisis Reporting
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WaPo: Detailed reporting about how "AI" is contributing to the climate crisis, including delaying the decommissioning of coal-fueled power plants. Also WaPo: Let's set up a chatbot to provide possibly false summaries of our articles on the climate crisis!
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Turing Test Critique and AI Evaluation Methods Discussion
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Appreciate the shout out to Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 in this recent piece: https://
technologyreview.com/2024/07/10/109
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… Given the discussion of the Turing Test, I also want to point to this ep of OOAC @alexhanna and I did on that topic: https://
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Tony Blair Institute AI Study Criticized for Methodological Flaws
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Some nice reporting from @404mediaco on yet another ridiculous "we asked ChatGPT study". https://
404media.co/ai-finds-that-
ai-is-great-in-new-garbage-research-from-tony-blair-institute/
… For a thorough take-down of the previous iteration of this, see ep 25 of MAIHT3k, w/
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Conversation with Prof. Safiya Noble on AI Ethics
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TFW you get to have a conversation with Prof. @safiyanoble and it's recorded so other people can enjoy too!! https://t.co/cGRqcD4d4B
— @emilymbender.bsky.social (@emilymbender) 5 juillet 2024TFW you get to have a conversation with Prof. @safiyanoble and it's recorded so other people can enjoy too!!
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Reimagining Search Beyond AdWords Prioritization Logic
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We can’t even talk about the things and all the other ways that we could have come to experience search or know search, or have different types of prioritizing logics beyond just those who paid the most in AdWords to get to the top. /end alt text >>