Also, even the current base models are in-principle being trained to predict every individual human on the Internet, not to imitate an average human on the Internet, and performance at that task would not saturate at human-level intelligence. https://
lesswrong.com/posts/nH4c3Q9t
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Base Models Predict Individuals, Not Average Humans
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AI defense spending and surveillance law face limited opposition
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Which makes it odd to see little/no pushback from most of this camp re the AI defense gold rush/NDAA tech allocations, the passage of 702 surveillance abuse into law, etc.
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Women in Tech Face Persistent Workplace Challenges and Barriers
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In tech fields, from first-time software engineers to VPs, working #women face numerous challenges. These obstacles are common to women in many disciplines. This cartoon depicts the experience many women face as they pursue a career in #tech #womenintech https://
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Generative AI Security Risks: Consumer Data Privacy Concerns
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Consumers are increasingly using #generativeAI tools from creating meal plans to asking for medical advice and inputting sensitive information into #AI systems, potentially exposing themselves to security and fraud risks. #DataPrivacy #CyberSecurity #IoT https://
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Generative AI Models Lack Safeguards Against Misuse
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The rapid rise of generative #AI models is exciting. However, these powerful tools often lack robust safeguards against misuse. Examples include generating deceptive content and launching novel attacks based on user prompts. #GenAI #CyberSecurity #Tech https://
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Musk sues OpenAI over proprietary shift from open-source roots
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#AI has produced a new fight between open and proprietary #tech. Elon Musk sued ChatGPT creator #OpenAI, claiming that what he had donated to as an #opensource organisation had become a “closed-source de facto subsidiary” of Microsoft. #GenAI #IoT https://
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AI System’s False Claim About Having School Child Raises Ethics Questions
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The thing where it claimed to have a child in school was pretty weird
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Academic Paper Criticism on Twitter Raises Community Ethics Concerns
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Yeah, gonna delete this. People are just insulting the paper authors without reading the paper or understanding the context of the fields being discussed. They didn’t ask that I tweet about them, and I didn’t expect the tweet to travel so widely. Getting nasty on Twitter.
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Understanding LLM Hallucinations: Critical Challenge for Reliable AI Tools
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The biggest challenge IMO is helping people understand the hallucination problem and how unreliable these tools are – if you don't understand that it's much harder to put these things to good use
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AI compassion raises questions about human treatment
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Imagine if they treated humans with that much compassion.