BIG TECH - AI Dynamics

Labor Exploitation, Mass Surveillance, and Environmental Impact in AI Systems

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24 November 2023 6h47

Whose labor is being exploited? How is mass surveillance being extended and normalized? What are the impacts to the natural environment and information ecosystem? 26/

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24 November 2023

Altman’s Unsubstantiated AI Claims Lack Evidence

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24 November 2023 6h46

The article ends as it began, by platforming completely unsubstantiated claims (marketing), this time sourced to Altman: 23/

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24 November 2023

Billionaires Disrupting Science Through AI Speculation

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@emilymbender

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24 November 2023 6h44

It is an enormous disservice to the public to report on this as if it were a "debate" rather than a disruption of science by billionaires throwing money at the hope of bringing about the speculative fiction stories they grew up reading — 20/

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24 November 2023

OpenAI’s Existential Risk Rhetoric and Transhumanist Culture

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@emilymbender

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24 November 2023 6h43

Next stop: both-sides-ing reporting of "existential risk". OpenAI is deep within the TESCERAList cult. It's staffed by people who actually believe they're creating autonomous thinking machines, that humans might merge with one day, live as uploaded simulations, etc. 19/

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24 November 2023

OpenAI’s Energy Waste Computing Imprecise Text Mimicry

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@emilymbender

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24 November 2023 6h40

Also, it's kind of hilarious (lolsob) that OpenAI is burning enormous amounts of energy to take machines designed to perform calculations precisely to make them output text that mimics imprecisely the performance of calculations… & then deciding that *that* is intelligent. 16/

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24 November 2023

Sam Altman Firing and Rehiring: Implications for AI Industry

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@nathanlands

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23 November 2023 22h42

Going back on WION TV tonight to discuss the Sam Altman firing and rehiring and what it means for AI.

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23 November 2023

OpenAI’s Use of Synthetic Data and Q* Development

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@kimmonismus

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23 November 2023 21h55

While OAI already uses 90% synth data lel. Q* ftw

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23 November 2023

Google Needs Date Filter to Combat AI-Generated Search Results

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@alliekmiller

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23 November 2023 20h38

Google needs a filter to only show results before November 2022. I just tried looking up a recipe for Thanksgiving and half were AI-generated gobbledegook.

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23 November 2023

Evaluating DeepMind’s AI Breakthrough Claims and AGI Progress

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@deeplearn007

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23 November 2023 20h23

@Alan_Couzens thank you for your summary & thoughts. As you point out without further details it is hard to evaluate whether it is a genuinely new AI breakthrough and pathway towards AGI. And let’s recall there were many announcements from DeepMind a few years ago relating to

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23 November 2023