Is there any kind of accountability at all for grand promises like these, if they don’t materialize?
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VCs Should Avoid Defensetech Investment Without Deep Expertise
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Contrarian take: Random VC funds with a web/mobile background should not invest in defensetech. We don’t need fomo mindset around weapons & surveillance technology imho. Don’t care what the DPI can be
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Critiquing LLM Hype: Pre-existing Concerns About Language Model Limits
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This particular idea long precedes me; I was indicating the grief that I got, not at all saying I originated it. it’s not my area. I would note though that many of my points about hype and the limits of large language models long preceded their work, which they have never
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Double Standard on AI Environmental Concerns and Paradigm Shift
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One minute I get grief for (a) worrying about the environmental impact of GenAI and (b) saying we need a paradigm shift Next minute people are all like cool cool when Sam says this:
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Doomers and AI: Why Catastrophism Persists in Tech Culture
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The TLDR of this: Doomers have always been with us. We must be wired this way. Lets be aware of risks and seek to mitigate them but odds are the sun will come up tomorrow. https://
nytimes.com/2024/01/26/opi
nion/polycrisis-doom-extinction-humanity.html
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Nonprofit Reports Lack Credibility Amid Astroturfing Concerns
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Not even just the startups (marketing for profit), some high-profile non-profits are publishing reports that don't even make sense (astroturfing for policy). It's exhausting.
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Red Teaming Visual Language Models for Safety Alignment
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7/ Red Teaming Visual Language Models – finds that 10 prominent open-sourced VLMs struggle with red teaming and have up to 31% performance gap with GPT-4V; applies red teaming alignment to LLaVA-v1.5 with SFT to improve performance by 10%.
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Government Bureaucrat Halts All Technology Development
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Created in midjourney with prompt: A government bureaucrat in a suit stops all technology.
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Authoritarian governments respond to AI with geopolitical tensions
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Me welcoming everyone to the world of geopolitical tantrums by insecure authoritarian governments. pic.twitter.com/wOtAZHyCsz
— 🖤 Christine (@christinelu) 28 janvier 2024Me welcoming everyone to the world of geopolitical tantrums by insecure authoritarian governments.
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Psychologist Reveals 2 Dangers of Falling for AI Girlfriend
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A #Psychologist Reveals 2 Dangers of Falling For an AI Girlfriend! https://
forbes.com/sites/traversm
ark/2024/01/27/a-psychologist-reveals-2-dangers-of-falling-for-an-ai-girlfriend/
… #AIgirlfriend #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #aigirls #AIgirl #aigenerated #Chatbots #Bot #Robots #robotics #tech #technology #TechNews #ArtificialInteligence #psychology