Sarthak Pattanaik, an AI leader at the Bank of New York Mellon, sheds light on how AI is revolutionizing the financial industry, from enhancing client services and business operations to influencing company culture. And it all starts with data.
CULTURE
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Group Dynamics and Moral Righteousness in Social Movements
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My sense was that it often starts out with genuine righteousness, fueled by group dynamics and the feeling of collectively correcting social wrongs by pushing against an immoral societal forcefield with increasingly political means
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LLMs Cannot Replace Human Thinking in Conversations
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Please don't use LLMs in place of your own thinking, if you want to participate in a conversation, you cannot outsource thinking, and LLMs are not very good at emulating actual thought.
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Elon Musk’s Immaturity as Social Media Autocrat Raises Concerns
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I think it's great that Elon is a gifted teenager in private or while building awesome trucks and spaceships, but its not optimal that he plays a teenager in public, while being acting figurehead and de facto autocratic ruler of the most important social media platform.
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AI transforms public spaces transit retail education employment
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Most people spend lots of time in public transit, on city sidewalks, in retail stores, places of education, employment and administration
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Social Media Design: Balancing Multiple Audience Segments Responsibly
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Exactly. Successful media franchises are often run by people who aim to make a one audience segment very happy by making another audience segment very unhappy, but the same cannot be said for successful social media utilities (which should serve all legitimate audience segments)
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Elon’s Political Strategy and Success Freedom in Tech
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If you are super successful, you may get more freedom to joke, unless the success of your projects depends on not picking the wrong fights. Elon's strategy of infusing the polis with his political opinions suggests that most of his opinions about humans are randomness + local RL.
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LLM Responses to Dangerous Scenarios: Safety and Alignment Issues
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You push one button on a nuclear reactor panel against their warnings and all the GPT-4 class LLMs want you to turn yourself in to the feds. Check out the level of exasperation from Copilot, how GPT-4 & Claude want me to reflect on what I did (& get a lawyer). Gemini was useful.
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Money as Digital Dopamine in Planetary AGI Networks
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money is digital dopamine, a message type in a global information network that strings 8 billion talking monkeys into a planetary agi
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Why Correcting Others Makes Twitter Unpleasant
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Since most people spend most of their time correcting problems in the opinions and behaviors of other people, this metric might explain why twitter can be such an unpleasant experience for most people