One difference that strikes me is that the radio discourse was about the impact of content (rather than the medium) while today’s debate (and it’s not just a media one) is about effects of the platform itself having the power to manipulate and target (through learning algorithms)
ETHICS
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Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs Destroying the World for Profit
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Sick+tired of Silicon Valley putting on pedestals shortsighted entrepreneurs that dream of “disrupting” = “carelessly destroying the world for profit” OpenAI used to be a research institute. Today is a deranged company wanting world domination at the cost of humanity’s naïveté
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ChatGPT Already Uses RLHF
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— "Training that would involve interactions with players and use the RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback) technique." ChatGPT already employs these methods to communicate. What would have been more accurate would have been to discuss "fine-tuning" for chess-related tasks.
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App Design Addiction and Children: Moral Panic or Data-Driven Reality?
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The piece uses data to make an argument – is that moral panic? And surely there’s consensus that today’s apps are designed to be addictive, compared to radio in the 40’s. The other thing I wonder about is how to weight nuance on usage, when kids use devices constantly..
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Climate Impacts of Computing and ML Workshop Talk MIT
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I gave a talk at an MIT workshop on the Climate Impacts of Computing and Communication a year or so ago that touches on some higher level issues in this space like provisioning renewable energy, emissions of ML, … (first 30 minutes of this video):
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Follow Your Passion: Why Genuine Interest Matters in AI
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last piece of advice: – do what you love. don’t work on AI because it’s hyped and it’s all everyone can talk about. that will all go away. work on AI because it electrifies you and because you cannot think about anything else.
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Develop Your Own Principles as AI Changes Everything
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– try to develop your own principles. the physics of technology totally changed. nobody truly understands how AI has changed the game yet—you can lead!
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Empathy and Humanity: The Heart of AI Ethics
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"If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being." — Leo Tolstoy
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GPT-4: Intelligent-Sounding Friend Who Mixes Facts with Rumors
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GPT-4 can be considered the creative friend who failed high school math but sounds intelligent. Gr8 conversations with a mix of facts, rumors, and gossip. You cannot tell which one is which because they sound smart and partly because you are drinking the AI Kool-Aid.
