Does anyone else remember that Sophia the robot was introduced as a “citizen” of Saudi Arabia in 2017 as what was well known to be a PR stunt? But that robot is now preaching a benevolent AGI future for all? And girl’s rights, after being “born” in the company of only rich men?
CULTURE
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LLM AI Systems Perpetuate IP Theft and Environmental Degradation
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Sin-thetic AI = The logic that LLM oriented AI tools spitting out copies of human’s work to other LLM systems to copy (poorly) is IP theft & a degradation of all unique thought that also “justifies” denying human agency & IP while “validating” environmental ruin via data centers.
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AI’s impact on ordinary people across nine countries
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If you’re interested how technology changes the lives of ordinary people, come with me on a journey across 9 countries, as I document stories of mothers, migrant workers, rural doctors and poets who have collided with AI software
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AI Storytellers Replace Books with Interactive Narrative Experiences
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In the future instead of books we'll have AI storytellers, answering questions and varying the story in response to the audience, just like the original human ones.
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Eritrean Refugee Thrives as Technical Program Manager at NVIDIA
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Veronica Miller, a refugee from Eritrea now working at NVIDIA, feels like her family’s journey has come full circle. Discover how she’s thriving in her role as a technical program manager. #NVIDIAlife
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Newsletter attempts cultural shift amid institutional decline
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I wholeheartedly agree with that. This newsletter is a tiny attempt to shift the culture but institutional decline and inability to reform are beasts.
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Political Parties Use Data Mining Like Poor AI Systems
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All major political parties use data mining to decide on their PR campaigns to be most receptive & reactive to popular opinion. They are functionally indistinguishable from a bad robot or poor AI. Human-centric morals have long gone out of the window.
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AI facing same politicization as climate science
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It's fascinating, watching in real time the same thing happen to AI that happened to climate science.
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Scale AI Formalizes Merit-Based Hiring Policy for AI Talent
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Today we’ve formalized an important hiring policy at Scale. We hire for MEI: merit, excellence, and intelligence. This is the email I’ve shared with our @scale_AI team. ——————————————————— MERITOCRACY AT SCALE In the wake of our fundraise, I’ve been getting a lot of questions
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AGI as a Faith-Based Belief System
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AGI is a Faith-Based Belief https://
linkedin.com/pulse/agi-fait
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… via @LinkedIn