This is both terrifying and deeply, deeply stupid.
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AI Development Bias: Software Engineers Overlook Marketing, Education, Law
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The Law of the Hammer is an issue in AI. The people who build AI are software engineers, and they obsess over the degree to which LLMs can (or cannot) automate software. Meanwhile, entire swathes of larger industries exposed to AI (marketing, education, law) get much less focus.
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Social Media Election Influence: Facebook Voting Ads Impact
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How can a social media company swing elections? We already know the answer as @jengolbeck pointed out: a 2012 study found Facebook banner ads reminding people to vote generated "340,000 additional votes" Companies don't need to show the ads to everyone… https://
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Caregiving Economics: Impact Metrics Before Technology Launch
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Caregiving. For economics but also for the start of all meaningful metrics moving forward. Measured in impact, discussed before a product or technology is released. Prioritizing people and planet. Healing, joyful care.
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Chatbots Hallucinate Legal Precedents: Stanford Study Findings
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Chatbots tend to “hallucinate” legal precedents from cases that never happened. How frequently? @StanfordHAI senior fellow Daniel Ho discusses findings from a recent study and concerns about AI over-reliance in the legal context.
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Among the AI Doomsayers: Examining AI Risk Concerns
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Among the #AI Doomsayers https://
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Data Governance and Safety Matter More Than Models
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Fully agree. There’s a lot of talk about *models*, but *data* access, governance, safety, attribution, multimodality, engineering, research and production is where the AI action is happening. More education on this is needed because it’s a big part of the safe and responsible
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Winning with Data Science: A Handbook for Business Leaders
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"Winning with #DataScience: A Handbook for Business Leaders" Get it: http://
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Consciousness as Coherence Creation in Self-Organizing Systems
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I think that the main function of consciousness may be the creation of coherence (absence of constraint violations in the current context). The phenomenology of consciousness (second order perception) might only be necessary on a self organizing substrate.
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A Decade Gap Between Perfect Demo and Commercial Autonomous Driving
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Actually I am very sympathetic to this. Back to my example of self-driving, my first demo drive in an early Waymo was 2014, and it was already great. It took me around for a 20min drive. From that ~perfect demo it was one decade before I could pay for a drive in a Waymo.