This thread helps explain my terror at the current/future state of the US
ETHICS
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Gemini Advanced falls short vs GPT-4 in usefulness and image handling
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Gemini Advanced (Gemini Ultra 1.0) is nowhere near as useful as GPT-4. Just some first impressions: Cons:
-randomly refuses to interpret images
-says cannot interpret images “containing people”
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NIST AI Safety Institute Consortium Promotes Trustworthy AI Development
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The AI Safety Institute Consortium established by @NIST brings together various AI stakeholders to support the development and deployment of safe, secure, and trustworthy AI. Here’s a statement from @StanfordCRFM and @Stanford RegLab leaders: https://
nist.gov/artificial-int
elligence/artificial-intelligence-safety-institute/aisic-member-perspectives#S
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Biden-Harris Administration Launches AI Safety Consortium
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Just in: Together with @StanfordCRFM and @Stanford RegLab, we are pleased to join a consortium of 200+ AI leaders in academia, government, industry, and civil society dedicated to advancing AI safety. Read the news here: https://
commerce.gov/news/press-rel
eases/2024/02/biden-harris-administration-announces-first-ever-consortium-dedicated
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Responsible AI Must Prioritize Environmental Protection First
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Where companies also know the CSRD/SEC or other environmental regulations won’t come into full effect for 3-4 years they’ll use as much water as they want knowing at best they’ll get a rounding error fine. We must define responsible AI as showing the planet is protected FIRST.
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Data Centers Hide Water Usage Behind Corporate IP Claims
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There are also reports from the AP showing companies owning data centers aren’t providing data to local communities on water they’re using quoting that info is corporate IP. Obviously this is deadly and ludicrous and irresponsible short-termism.
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Data Centers’ Water Crisis: Only 39% Report Usage
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It’s beyond irresponsible – it’s knowingly harmful based on data centers not reporting water usage. A 2022 @uptime report showed only 39% of data centers report water usage. But centers are being placed many times in known water scarce areas (droughts / aquifer depletion).
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Medical Professionals and AI Regulation: Beyond Algorithm Design
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“Conversations about regulating AI mostly focused on the algorithms, but equally important are asking questions about how medical professionals will interact with them,” says @StanfordHAI faculty affiliate @MichelleM_Mello
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Discussion on C2PA Metadata and AI Content Labeling
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The watermarks – I assume should be the same c2pa metadata which can be removed from the image. As those images might get labelled as AI generated by major platforms
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Critique of spontaneous behavior explanation as rudeness threshold tuning
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I don’t buy that this is “spontaneous” behavior not seen in training. A simpler explanation is it was tuned to refuse some extremely rude requests, but it isn’t sure what that threshold for rudeness is.