Like preachers who preach that tomorrow will be the end of the world & "refine" their arguments for next time. These ppl have predicted "the singularity" to be 2025 & will probably do this for the rest of their lives while getting $$ & being invited to write op-eds for @TIME
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Singularity Predictions: Repeated Failed Forecasts and Media Incentives
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Stakeholder Capitalism and Commons-Based Alternatives to Extractive Models
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There’s stakeholder capitalism which is better than neo-colonial capitalism. But caregiving and partnership can also drive a commons like society that isn’t “socialist” or that uses a framing essentially quasi-capitalist in response to the exponential growth extractive kind.
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Open Source AI: Inevitable Capabilities and Alignment Risks
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Open source is all you need to make inevitable any feat that one group can do and no one else can stop afterwards. This has both good and bad effects on society. The extinction issue, and more generally the present impossibility of aligning good ASIs to counter bad ones, makes
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Building Ethical AI Startups in Healthcare: Founders’ Approaches
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How two founders approach building ethical #AI startups in #health care https://
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Bar Association Establishes AI Impact Taskforce for Legal Practice
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Mounting concerns about the potential impact of #ArtificialIntelligence on #legal practice have prompted the world's largest voluntary association of #Lawyers to set up a taskforce on the topic. https://
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Google’s SynthID: Digital Watermark Identifies AI-Generated Images
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Google is trialling a digital watermark to spot images made by #artificialIntelligence (#AI) in a bid to fight disinformation. Developed by DeepMind, #Google's AI arm, #SynthID will identify images generated by machines https://
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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Episode 12 Analysis
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This one was especially cathartic to record as @alexhanna and I cleared a backlog of "Fresh AI Hell" entrants: Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 episode 12: "It's All Hell" https://
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AI: Automatically Generated Works Are Not Protectable
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USA: An artwork entirely generated by AI cannot be protected by copyright law https://actuia.com/actualite/usa-une-oeuvre-dart-totalement-generee-par-une-ia-ne-peut-etre-protegee-par-le-droit-dauteur/
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SynthID: Technical Solution for AI Safety and Misinformation
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While #SynthID isn’t a silver bullet for misinformation, it’s a promising technical solution to some of today’s pressing AI safety issues
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AI Worst-Case Scenario: Ethics and Digital Transformation Risks
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#AI: The worst-case scenario https://
bit.ly/46ldAUY #ethics #DigitalTransformation