By consuming culture, they also fund it, no?
@ylecun
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AI Doomers as Useful Idiots for Proprietary AI Industry
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The AI doomers are the "useful idiots" of the proprietary AI industry.
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Billionaire Influence and AI Doomerism: Financial Corruption Concerns
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You were talking about corruption?
Kersti Kaljulaid, the FLI, and yourself are under the (financial) influence of Estonian billionaire Jaan Talinn. I don't doubt that Jaan has good intentions (perhaps with a slightly excessive savior syndrome). But his and your AI doomerism is -
Information Control and Intellectual Worker Protection in AI Era
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Both the control of information (and religious dogma) and the protection of scribes.
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AI and Books Enable Knowledge Access, Reject Doom Scenarios
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Printed books and AI systems both serve to enable better access to knowledge. They both make people smarter, more creative, & more productive.
That's intrinsically good.
That's the reality. Scenarios of AI-fueled doom are imaginary bullshit.
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UAE Minister Warns Against Premature AI Technology Regulation
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The UAE Minister of AI @OmarSAlolama points to a historical precedent of premature technology regulation motivated by fear: the ban of the printing press in 1515 by Sultan Selim I led to the decline of the Ottoman Empire. “We overregulated a technology, which was the printing
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Fluency Does Not Equal Intelligence in Large Language Models
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Good essay on the fallacy of assuming that LLMs are intelligent because they are fluent.
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EPFL’s Llama-2 Medical Fine-Tuned Model Released
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A version of Llama-2 fine-tuned for medicine from EPFL.
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Self-Supervised Learning Transforms Deep Learning Beyond Supervised Methods
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Sorry but your picture of deep learning is badly out of date.
The limitation you are pointing out is a limitation of *supervised* learning (regardless of the architecture). But deep Self-Supervised Learning has taken over the world in the last few years: you pre-train with SSL