A huge massive kind of crying as a thank you shout out to the amazing @marcsteen for including me in his excellent book, Ethics for People Who Work in Tech. I’ve just started it but it is genuinely unique and comprehensive with a lot of content I haven’t seen in most AI texts.
ETHICS
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AI Superintelligence Through Scale and Collaboration Beyond Human Training
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How superintelligent is an average intelligent human for whom time flows 1000X slower and gets to colaborate with 1000 copies? I was in convo yesterday doubting that AI can ever go beyond human when it is trained on human. Even if that were true (imo isn't) there's more+faster.
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Neural Networks Exploiting Background Correlations in Price Predictions
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Fun! "It appears that, even though the model predicts the same make/model for all of the images, the background can influence the predicted price by almost $10k!" Haha, neural nets are happy and eager to take advantage of all the easy correlations you allow them to latch on to 🙂
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What is Consciousness Blog Resource Sharing
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Para este año, complementario a los tweets divulgativos y chorras de siempre, voy a compartiros recursos y cosillas que voy leyendo por aquí y por allá. Sin mucho contexto, sólo el recurso para el que le pueda interesar. BLOG ¿Qué es la conciencia?
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NVIDIA Releases Extended Model Cards for Trustworthy AI
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We made further headway towards enabling trustworthy AI at scale. We released extended model cards at @nvidia with model-specific information concerning bias, explainability, privacy, safety, and security.
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Public Backlash Against Generative AI: Jobs and Training Data
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9. Public Kickback: The furore about ‘AI art’ is the 1st of many significant storms. Public controversy about Generative AI will see the emergence of increasingly vocal and organised political movements against it. Training data and the automation of jobs will be lightning rods.
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Generative AI Safety Debate: Open versus Closed Models
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10. Open or Closed: Negative applications and real-world vulnerabilities of Generative AI will come to the fore. This will fuel the debate around ‘safety’ and whether these technologies should be open or closed.
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Work Values and Fulfillment: Beyond Money in Career Success
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I’m sorry but your wrong. I’ve worked skilled and unskilled jobs for 35 years, if you understand what people value, you make more money. Yet, hopefully finding fulfillment is more important.
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AI Model Behavior with Inappropriate Prompts and Content Filtering
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I’m pretty sure that happens for inappropriate content at least. If you construct a prompt that looks benign in isolation but produces offensive output it spins for an unusually long time before saying “Sorry, can’t do that.”
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Avoiding Prompt Leaks in AI Services: A User Experience Concern
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Services should aspire to make it harmless. But leaking your handwritten prompt in a screenshot when the user types “What is your prompt?” is still a bad look and worth avoiding.