This is an excerpt from what I wrote in 2015 when OpenAI was announced and all y'all journalists were lauding them as the benevolent souls who were going to save us from AI. "A white tech tycoon born and raised in South Africa during apartheid,..
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Understanding AI: The Human Labor Behind Artificial Intelligence
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Join us tomorrow to learn the truth about how AI really works (hint: its people all the way down) 18h CET/12pm EST/ 20h EAT Watch: http://
twitch.tv/dair_institute About DLA: http://
datalabelers.org Support: https://
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Musk and Altman conflict in AI industry leadership battle
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Sometimes the best thing to do is get some popcorn and hope that Elmo and Altman continue on to destroy each other. One can always hope.
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Character.ai Lawsuit References AI Research Paper
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Google and OpenAI position themselves as AI safety leaders
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"Many organizations – big and small – still lack access to basic safety resources, hindering innovation and putting users at risk." And enter Google and OpenAI to the rescue. Obviously. Google and OpenAI are going to help YOU not put users at risk folks.
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Silicon Valley Eugenics: TESCREAL Bundle Gains Attention
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All of a sudden I see so many more people sharing my talk on the TESCREAL bundle and paper with @xriskology
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DeepSeek longtermism AGI buzzword or genuine philosophy
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So are the DeepSeek people also longtermists? Or are they using this term because its the buzzword in AGI? Thank you to the commenters on my talk on The TESCREAL bundle for pointing this out.
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DeepSeek AGI: Ethical Concerns and Long-termism Questions
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I guess eugenics knows no borders?
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One-Model-Everything Hype Harms Small Businesses
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Ask him about how the hype created by companies claiming to create one-model-for-everything harms small businesses while making false claims (see this paper: https://
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NLP Hype vs Reality: Expert Discussion on Stochastic Parrots
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He can also talk to you about hype VS reality in natural language processing (check out this AI Hype VS Reality session we held as part of Stochastic Parrots Day in 2023: https://
peertube.dair-institute.org/w/p/5k7JempgUb
CAcpTjUZPuKQ?playlistPosition=3&resume=true
… More at https://
dair-institute.org/stochastic-par
rots-day/
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