Yeah — I really dislike the framing of stochastic parrots as an insult against LLMs (as if they were something that could be insulted!) and extra dislike people using the phrase to refer to other people.
ETHICS
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MAIHT3k Episode Explores AI Ethics and Clean Energy Myths
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Today's #MAIHT3k episode with @strubell and @SashaMTL (and @alexhanna of course!) was so much fun (and super enlightening). I'm still chuckling about the mythical clean energy stats from the mythical land of Lowa…
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AI Control Lobby Relies on Imaginary Harms Versus Real Statistics
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The gun control lobby can bring statistics to bear and say “Perhaps it is worth giving up some liberty in an attempt to limit these manifest harms.” You can disagree, but it is a reality based argument. In contrast, the AI control lobby holds up imaginary harms.
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Technology’s Purpose: Reducing Suffering, Increasing Happiness
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The goal of civilization is not to create full employment. It's to reduce suffering and increase happiness and health for everyone. That's the standard we should hold technology to, not its ability to create or replace work. The good news is, that's where we're headed
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Responsible AI Challenges: Costs and Ethics for Startups
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Auxane hints at challenges startups could face in pursuing Responsible AI including high costs and self-regulation complexities. Startups need to grasp their product's specificities, ethical boundaries, and societal impact for genuine responsibility.
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Responsible AI and AI Governance: Culture, Regulation, Society
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In the interview, she elaborates on Responsible AI and AI Governance. Responsible AI ensures culture, regulation, environmental, and societal alignment. AI Governance, meanwhile, outlines the steps to attain Responsible AI.
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Responsible AI Requires Cultural Adaptation and Ethical Frameworks
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Responsible AI isn't universal, it adjusts to cultural values and needs constant refinement. The importance of ethical frameworks for tech professionals, for responsible tech outcomes, was stressed.
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Responsible AI and AI Governance with Auxane Boch
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Discover Responsible AI and AI Governance with Auxane Boch, Research Associate, PhD Candidate at the Institute for Ethics in AI, and Women in AI Munich Lead. She specializes in Responsible AI, Ethics, Games, and Social Robotics.
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AI Alignment Problem and Font Kerning Humor
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This would solve the AI alignment problem, which is the difficulty of getting sufficiently complicated vector math to understand kerning. /s
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GPT-4 Training Data Transparency: YouTube and Propaganda Sources
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list out all the user data and internet data the model was trained on. Is GPT4 trained on Youtube? On propaganda videos specifically? That's the kind of transparency that will be strictly useful