What do they have against machine learning / ai?
ETHICS
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Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Paul Scharre
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Facial Recognition Error Leads to Wrongful Arrest During Pregnancy
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Eight Months Pregnant and Arrested After False Facial Recognition Match: Porsha Woodruff thought the police who showed up at her door to arrest her for carjacking were joking. She is the first woman known to be wrongfully… #Technology #Tech #FutureTech https://
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hnology/facial-recognition-false-arrest.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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AI Activism: Preventing Exploitation Without Consent
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If you read Karla's thread, you'll see the ongoing activism aims to prevent exploitation. The demands are not about stopping AI. If you're advocating violating people's economic and moral rights, be aware that without consent there are no contracts and thus no markets.
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Google Launches Tool Detecting AI-Generated Images Against Deepfakes
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@Google Launches Tool That Detects AI Images In Effort To Curb Deepfakes v/ @Forbes #GenerativeAI #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureOfWork #disruption #DigitalTransformation #LLM #Chatgpt #Llama #gpt #machinelearning #deeplearning #ai #huggingface #metaai #llama
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Laziness Drives Innovation Through Fear Management
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Being "lazy" forces us to innovate. "Fear is the path to the dark side".
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Autonomous Vehicle Safety: Premature Technology Rollout Risks
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The saga of what happens when you roll out premature technology too quickly continues. Some will protest that human drivers make mistakes too, which is of course true, but given the tiny fleet size and the number of accidents, I doubt they are truly comparable.
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Preventing CO2e Estimation Misinformation in AI Research
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Agreed. As a minimal baseline, I would suggest "If you're trying to estimate CO2e emissions of a model, reach out to paper authors to say 'We've computed X: did that seem right?'". This would have prevented some significant misinformation in the field (data incorrect by >3000X!)
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ML Environmental Impact: Prioritize Actual Data Over Misinformation
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At the same time, the ML environmental impact community should use actual data whenever possible, and avoid wildly inaccurate estimates. There's a lot of misinformation and flawed data in the community that leads to wild headlines. Real data helps us focus on the right things!
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Cruise Autonomous Vehicles Block Ambulance, Patient Dies
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First report I have seen of this kind: two @cruise blocking egress for an ambulance contributing to death of patient. [I have personally seen many @cruise blocking roads and other drivers from moving.] This incident was on Aug 14th in SF.