"(Musk now has at least nine children with three different women, and has said that he is doing his part to address one of his pet issues, the risk of population collapse; demographers are skeptical about the matter.)" Umm how about eugenics? Hello?
@timnitgebru
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Elon Musk’s Messianic Vision: Sam Altman’s Critique
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"Sam Altman, the C.E.O. of OpenAI, with whom Musk has both worked and sparred, told me, “Elon desperately wants the world to be saved. But only if he can be the one to save it.”" Something about the pot and the kettle here smh. https://
newyorker.com/magazine/2023/
08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule
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Demographic Bias in AI Development and Cult-Like Communities
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Just imagine if it weren't a bunch of racist white dudes writing these things and building these cults.
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Military-Industry-University Complex in AI and Technology Development
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Also that they had people from MIT, Bell Labs and so many military examples, the whole military+industry+university crew. Same as today.
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Autonomous Factory: Ultimate Machine Automation Vision
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"we want a machine that is an organism, a combination of machine, of course the ultimate in this will be when men do not control the individual machines, but complete arrays of machines that are complete production plants…a sort of automatic factory" Mkay.
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Claude Shannon’s AI predictions: telephones and brain research
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Claude Shannon saying maybe they'll improve telephones and learn about the human brain. Not so much AI hype there at least.
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Thinking Machines: AI Hype Cycles from 1953 to 2023
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Currently watching this documentary. So many issues. But appropriate for my 1953 or 2023 AI Hype Game. Did you know they had "thinking machines" all the way back in 1953?
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Humanities Under Threat: AI Revolution’s Collateral Damage
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Ordered and #1 on my reading list. "James E. Dobson is assistant professor of English and creative writing…" God thing we're getting rid of the humanities.
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Student barriers to reporting AI concerns in schools
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Yea but imagine the resources it takes for a student to do that, and also the fear of retaliation to do so while you're at the same school.
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Student challenges university over AI chatbot academic integrity case
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I had another email from another student who was featured in this article “Zimny, 20, said she plead her case to her professor, the head of the school’s political science department and a university dean, to no avail.” https://
washingtonpost.com/technology/202
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