Yes @dylnbkr "when we think about what a more ethical development of this technology could look like, I think it looks a lot like machine learning…before the last 10 years. It looks like building systems for specific purposes with specific scopes… https://
cchange.xyz/dylan-baker/
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Ethical AI Development: Lessons from Specialized Machine Learning
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Doug Lenat’s Cyc Legacy: Symbolic AI Pioneer’s Ontological Work
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AI lost a monumental scientist in Doug Lenat.
His work on Cyc deeply inspires me till today — not so much because he worked on symbolic AI but because of how far he'd taken it, through a multi-decade dedication.
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Distinguished Lectures on AI Status and Future at Berkeley
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Join us in an exciting series of distinguished lectures on The Status and Future of AI featuring @AlisonGopnik @ancadianadragan @timnitGebru and Jaron Lanier. Register for attending in-person @UCBerkeley or online! https://
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GPU cluster reliability issues exceed conventional systems by orders of magnitude
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I’m sure my thrice-replaced DGX station is an outlier, but the reliability reports I hear from big GPU cluster people are still grim. They have over an order of magnitude more failures than conventional systems. ML training is tolerant, but it is at a point that gets noticed.
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AI Analyzes 200,000 Speeches on Immigration Since 1880
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Can AI track opinions? This study used AI to chart the tone of more than 200,000 congressional and presidential speeches on immigration since 1880 and provides a surprising historical perspective:
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Doug Lenat: Tenacious Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, 1950-2023
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A short essay in memory of the tenacious and brilliant Doug Lenat, 1950-2023 https://
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Conversation with Neri Oxman on Design and AI Innovation
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Here's my conversation with @NeriOxman
, a brilliant designer, engineer, scientist, artist, and one of the most fascinating and kind-hearted human beings I've ever gotten the chance to know. This was truly an honor and a pleasure. https://
youtube.com/watch?v=XbPHoj
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Multilingual AI Dataset Benchmark on HuggingFace Platform
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Most Important Graph in Software Productivity Today
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the most important graph in software rn. perhaps the most important graph for human productivity in decades.
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Guanya Shi’s Impressive Work in Learning and Control
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Join @GuanyaShi group. He is doing impressive work in learning+control