Open foundation models can combat market concentration, catalyze innovation, and improve transparency. How can we regulate these models without compromising these opportunities? Read more from this policy brief:
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AI Surveillance Business Models and Privacy-First Alternatives
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Great talking to @samschech on the links between AI & surveillance, the circular flows of $ that see cloud cos blurring the line between investment & acquisition in AI, and how Signal competes with the bigs while rejecting the surveillance biz model
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Midwits, Institutions, and the Reproduction of Unchallenged Opinions
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Reproducing opinions while not being able to disprove them or to construct reliable new ones is the operational definition of a midwit. Midwits are an important part of society. They are constituting the bulk of our institutions. They even have newspapers made just for them.
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Societal perceptions and the public discourse surrounding AI adoption
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Hot Take : L'adoption de l'IA est davantage ralentie par les gens qui ont peur de l'IA à cause de tous les "créateurs" / "journalistes" etc., qui crient à "l'IA FLIPPANTE", ou qui résument l'IA à "un truc magique comme ChatGPT" pour faire des vues, que par des problèmes
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OpenAI Prepares New Tools for 2024 Elections
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[#Article] New Policies, New Tools: OpenAI Prepares for 2024 Elections https://actuia.com/actualite/nouvelles-politiques-nouveaux-outils-openai-se-prepare-aux-elections-2024/
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Philosophy Science Trade-offs in AI Research Papers
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I am not arguing that a paper cannot be politically valuable and instigate debates despite representing not very good philosophy and computer science. The question whether the community benefited or was harmed as a result is still subject of debate, as it is often with politics.
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Parrots vs GPT-4: Beyond Stochastic Parrots Debate
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Hm, has anyone done a comparison between the abilities of parrots and GPT-4? This kind of argument is pronounced in the stochastic parrots paper, too: more motivated by politics than philosophy or empirical analysis.
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Gender Bias at Work: Sensor Study Reveals Treatment Inequality
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We Asked Men and Women to Wear Sensors at Work. They Act the Same but Are Treated Very Differently.
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Nightshade Poison Tool Impacts AI Image Generation Quality
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New poison for AI models just dropped. I’ll be curious to see how many artist use Nightshade — which made headlines when it was first announced in the fall — and any impact it might have on the quality of image-based AI.
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WEF AI Governance Alliance publishes papers on responsible AI
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The @wef
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weforum.org/publications/a
i-governance-alliance-briefing-paper-series/
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