Know the name of your strategic errors.
ETHICS
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Large AI Teams: BigScience Lessons on Project Organization
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yes, agree on the exhaustion feeling. BigScience was an experiment in trying to involve as many/diverse people as possible but a take-away is that too large teams can be counter-productive. Smaller projects like T0/ethics/RAIL were more successful inside BS than larger Bloom imo
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Critique d’un article sur la surveillance gouvernementale
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Critique d'un article sur la surveillance gouvernementale Title in English: Critique of an Article on Government Surveillance Note: The URL provided appears to be incomplete or improperly formatted. The text content from the article is not included in your request, only a URL reference. To provide a complete translation of the article text, please provide the full content you wish to have translated.
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Culture Sustainability in AI Development Questioned
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Yeah, not totally clear how sustainable it is. But the culture seems to be pretty good for now.
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Elon Musk’s Twitter Management: Irreversible Damage Assessment
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"Maybe Elon will mess up Twitter, but probably not" was my position a week ago Nothing he has said or done in the past week has supported the idea that he's not going to keep causing irreversible damage Did you see the thread about the trust thermocline?
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Building Tools Responsibly: Ethics of Dual-Use Technology
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I've built tools (like Django) that can be used for truly evil things, and I hate that If Mastodon had been explicitly designed to support evil behaviour I would reject it This particular case feels more to me like rejecting email software because that can be used for evil too
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ML Privacy Risks Beyond Verbatim Memorization Research
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Nice paper (ft @daphneipp @florian_tramer @katherine1ee +more) that argues looking at verbatim memorization is inadequate when considering ML privacy risks It also has the most interesting author ordering I've ever seen. So much for alphabetical or random https://
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Empathy Over Wealth: Building a Better World
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Empathy may not make you rich, but it makes the world a better place.
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Billionaire Narcissism and Economic Inequality in Tech Acquisitions
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As I said in my post, "I can’t see myself putting the same work in to help the world’s (current) richest man pay the billion dollar annual interest on the loans he took out to buy the place on a weird narcissistic whim."
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Student Conference Access and Educational Equity Priorities
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Fair is another question. But if it's a question of my student going to a conference or not, I'll do whatever I can to send them. Things don't always work out fair.