people who say "nobody knows" how ai does what it does are, at this point, obfuscating (and/or *they* don't know). systems are still commonly called "black boxes" etc but it's increasingly clear how they work (which can vary based on things like the architecture of the model).
@rachelmetz
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Key contributions to AI advances research and technology thinking
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Exactly. And it has made some key contributions to AI advances over the years — both with actual research and simply how we use/think about the technology.
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AI Agents Wild West: Testing Auto-GPT’s Investment Planning Abilities
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I worked w @SarithaRai on this latest piece for @BW about the Wild West of AI agents like Auto-GPT. (spoiler: I couldn’t get an AI agent to come up w a good plan to make a cool $1M over 10 yrs w an initial $100 investment but I’m still very curious to see where this all goes.)
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Rise of Chatbots: New AI Startup Launches Friendly Chatbot
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if it feels like there are more chatbots lately, it's because there *are* more chatbots lately. such as this one, which wants to be your buddy. https://
bloomberg.com/news/articles/
2023-05-02/ai-startup-co-founded-by-reid-hoffman-mustafa-suleyman-debuts-friendly-chatbot?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=twitter
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Donald Trump Now Available as Chatbot on Character AI
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donald trump already *is* a chatbot. (on @character_ai
, at least). https://
c.ai/c/BAatpD6zHNv9
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Ambiguity about authorship and human identity
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i mean, i said i wrote it but i didn't say i'm a human.
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Bing Chat GPT-4 Terms of Use Clarification Questions
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they are at least using Bing chat, which uses OpenAI's GPT-4; i'm not sure how the ToU shakes out for that kind of usage (i'm not sure if you'd be following Microsoft's rules or OpenAI's rules, etc)
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AI and Journalism Panel Discussion at San Francisco Press Club
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it's very clear in the story i linked but just so it's super clear here on twitter: this came up during a panel i hosted for @SF_PressClub earlier this week about AI and journalism. the entire video is here if you want to check it out:
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Disclosure concerns and ethical issues with AI tool usage
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at first i was just thinking about it from a disclosure standpoint (like, are there levels of use of these tools that would be ok/not okay with me without disclosing it to readers?), but the more i thought about it the more issues came to mind.
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News Organizations Data Training Chatbots Privacy Concerns
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like, do news organizations want to feed copy into these chatbots that's then used for training to improve the chatbots? (the new ChatGPT setting will let you avoid this, but afaik Bing chat doesn't offer that at the moment?) some might say yes, others might say no.