Fundamental AI research is now primarily the purview of large tech companies – a trend that’s becoming more relevant as money & attention are showered on large language models. My piece, with insights from @NurAhmedB & @mer__edith
’s brilliant 2021 paper
ETHICS
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Big Tech Dominates Fundamental AI Research Landscape Now
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AI as Progress Lever: Overcoming Fear and Embracing Opportunity
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L'IA fait peur. Certains y voient une menace pour l'emploi, d'autres y perçoivent un danger pour l'humanité. Pour ma part, j'y vois surtout un levier de progrès et de prospérité. Tel est le sens de la tribune que je signe aujourd'hui dans Les Échos : «IA : n'ayez pas peur !»
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ChatGPT Privacy Breach Exposes Sensitive User Data to Other Users
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This is a significant privacy breach. People are encouraged to use ChatGPT as a personal tool, so that means everything from sensitive work tasks to health questions have been exposed to other users.
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Poorly Tested LLM Releases Cause Real-World Consequences
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This is what happens when you release a poorly tested #LLM in the hands of real people who now suffer the consequences @OfficeforAI @SciTechgovuk @theCAIDP @GPAI_PMIA
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Microsoft Campus 2024: Senior Developers Share Tales of Manual Coding Era
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microsoft campus 2024:
a group of senior devs huddle around a flickering fire in the remnants of the structure that used to house microsoft's AI ethics team they share tales of a bygone era when code was crafted by hand, keystroke by keystroke, and debugging was a rite of -
Pausing AI Development: Practical Implementation Challenges Explained
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My favourite part in the public discourse about #AI is the idea that we should "pause" it. Like okay party's over, everybody goes home now! I've never seen anyone explaining how that'd work in practice.
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US Regulators Should Collaborate More With AI Innovators
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The US has a strong history of fostering innovation, and regulators have played a key role by establishing clear rules and pursuing bad actors. We hope the US will take a more constructive approach to collaborating with innovators while protecting consumers.
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Zoom Disengagement: Digital Communication Etiquette Problem
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The level to which the average person is disengaged on Zoom would be deemed inappropriate and rude in-person If you were getting coffee in person, giving 30% attention, while flitting between tasks and checking notifications, would be a dick move And yet, it’s the Zoom norm
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Important Preprint on LLMs and Data Rivers
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Important preprint from Sylvie Delacroix on LLMs and Data Rivers. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4388928
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Bard’s Training Data Transparency Issues and Speculation
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Bard still seems confused about whether it was or wasn't trained using private data from Gmail (Google says it it wasn't). In reality it probably has zero idea what it was trained since that information was not in the training data, so it's just making guesses.