thinking really hard about a problem when you're not sure if you will find its solution, or if the solution is out there but you're googling the wrong words, or the problem is completely intractable for reasons you are currently unaware of
ETHICS
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PhD Students Face Continuous Intelligence Boundaries
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one of the scariest parts of being a phd student is directly confronting the boundaries of your own intelligence, over and over again (you get used to it though)
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Google’s AI Infrastructure Control Raises Concentration of Power Concerns
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However, Google alone decides whether, on what terms, students get access to these incredibly costly AI infrastructures. This is the opposite of "democratizing." In fact, it's another example of how acute concentration of power in the AI industry is.
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Signal Encryption Protects User Contact Privacy
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Here's more info. Signal DOES NOT have access to your contacts, because we apply encryption to ensure we do not. https://
signal.org/blog/private-c
ontact-discovery/
… And https://
signal.org/blog/building-
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Data Poisoning Paper: Practical Applications and Implications
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also quite enjoyed his recent paper on data poisoning is practical.
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Literature and AI: Winning Essay on Poetry Optimization
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Congratulations to @StanfordHAI senior fellow Michele Elam for winning the 2023 Norman Foerster Prize! Her essay “Poetry Will Not Optimize; or, What Is Literature to AI?” was awarded best essay of the year in American Literature. Read the full text here: https://
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AI’s Growing Environmental Costs: Energy Crisis and Water Depletion
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My latest for @Nature
: AI's environmental costs are soaring. The new energy-hungry models for video, text, and image could create an energy crisis – and impact drinking water reserves. We urgently need action from industry, researchers, and legislators. https://
nature.com/articles/d4158
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AI Persuasion Risk: When Humans Trust Wrong Solutions
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"On the creative product innovation task, humans supported by AI were much better than humans. But for the problem solving task, [the combination of] human and AI was not even equal to humans…meaning that AI was able to persuade humans…of something that was wrong."
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Tech Escalation Militarized Surveillance Climate Crisis
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I'm aware of (some of) the putrid history! & I think we can be alarmed at this escalation, at a time of of climate crisis + consolidated militarized surveillance/social control infrastructures c/o tech corps, etc. Or, it having been bad doesn't mean we can dismis this as normal.
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Google and its AI: Genius or Failure?
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What is #Google playing at with its AI? Gemini Pro, Gemini Ultra, Advanced… And now Gemini 1.5! Everyone’s calling it genius, but what if it’s a sign of defeat? We break it down in this video → https://youtu.be/K8uk68X7F4I #ArtificialIntelligence #GoogleGemini