Today's AI technology is even more ground breaking than the 2000's revolution. A future strongly dominated by a single actor in business domain will likely bring similar gigantic billion dollars antitrust actions. And… what emerged from the ashes of the 2000's battles? 6/8
REGULATION
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AI industry faces massive antitrust legal spending surge
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Ok friends, it's weekend, we've some time for us. So let me tell you about a possible future for AI where the largest AI spendings, in billions of dollars, in 2-3 years would be on… … antitrust legal fees A quick 1/8
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Government oversight of large-scale AI training compared to rocket regulations
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The comment “we think it’s important that major world governments have insight about training runs above a certain scale” makes me recall the 200,000 lb-sec FAA amateur rocketry limit.
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AWS and Hugging Face collaboration prevents AI monopolies
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I’ve contemplated a future where a few well-resourced actors own and control powerful AI systems – and I have to say, this doesn't necessarily strike me as a good idea. Collabs like this between AWS and @huggingface are going help prevent AI monopolies.
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Google Scholar design control and alternative academic search platforms
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Agreed. The design choices, which are norm setting, are at the whims of a couple of folks (
https://
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Facial tracking surveillance at World Pride criticized as pseudoscience
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Hey #WorldPride? Maybe don’t do this nonsense facial tracking on people’s ‘mood’ at Mardi Gras. It’s pseudoscientific surveillance theatre
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US Declares AI Should Never Control Nuclear Launch Codes
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Amid all the bingchat nonsense last week the US made a major statement about military use of AI. It declared that AI should never get the nuclear launch codes, and should be developed with clear standards around verification and testing.
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Section 230 Overhaul: Supreme Court Could Limit Internet Speech Diversity
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This week, questions loomed on the overhaul of Section 230, the foundational law of the Internet. MIT’s Dan Weitzner helped draft the law & get it passed in '96. He now says the Supreme Court could “dramatically limit" diversity of speech on the Internet: http://
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ChatGPT Bing Safety Quirks Microsoft User Protection
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From stealing nuclear access codes to sending love threats, suggestions made by #ChatGPT-powered Bing has left users perplexed. Discover the quirks of AI conversation and how Microsoft plans on ensuring user safety and privacy in this direction here: https://
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