More than calculators: Why large language models threaten public education
So when we talk about “likely sequences of symbols”, the word “likely” means “the collective writing of mostly English-fluent adults likely to write publicly online in the past decade”, not “all of human knowledge or thought”.
Nur mit Bleistift, Papier und Pappbechern kannst du dir eine eigene KI für das Spiel Nim bauen. Trainiere sie, indem du gegen sie spielst, und sie wird unschlagbar gut. Und das alles ohne Computer!
The Snap! Community. Snap! is a blocks-based programming language built by UC Berkeley and used by hundreds of thousands of programmers around the world.
With Facebook’s release of LLaMa, and the subsequent work done with its models by the open community, it’s now possible to run a state of the art “GPT-3 class” LLM on regula…
Pünktlich zum Wochenende ist mein "Longread" erschienen. Ja, 20.000 Zeichen zählt schon als lang - es ist immer gar nicht so einfach, so lange Texte durchzukriegen, weil alle Sorge haben, dass niemand online so lange liest. Dieser ist aber natürlich so spannend, dass ihr ihn bis zur letzten Zeile genießen werdet ;) Es geht um einen Jailbreak, der mir Einblick gab in die "Ausbruchsphantasien" von Google Bard und um die Frage, ob #LLMs ein Weltmodell haben 💲 Kurzer Thread: https://www.zeit.de/digital/internet/2023-11/ki-chatbot-bard-liebe-befehle-emotionen/komplettansicht
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (@emilymbender@dair-community.social)
Reporters working in this area need to be on their guard and not take the claims of the AI hype-mongers (doomer OR booster variety) at face value. It takes effort to reframe, but that effort is necessary and important. We all, but especially journalists, must resist the urge to be impressed: 4/ https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/on-nyt-magazine-on-ai-resist-the-urge-to-be-impressed-3d92fd9a0edd As a case in point, here's a quick analysis of a recent Reuters piece. For those playing along at home read it first and try to pick out the hype: 5/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/sam-altmans-ouster-openai-was-precipitated-by-letter-board-about-ai-breakthrough-2023-11-22/
OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources say
Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers wrote a letter to the board of directors warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Vor vielen Jahren habe ich einmal mit einem Team eine Studie für das Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft (sic!) verfaßt, bei der es um Jugendschutz im Internet geht. Das Problem dabei war, daß so gut wie keine Inhalte im Internet deutsche Jugendschutzlabels haben. Für kommerzielle Inhalte außerhalb des Internets gibt es solche Labels fast immer, denn diese kommen ja von deutschen Herstellern auf den deutschen Markt und sie sind mit kommerziellen Interessen hergestellt.
Die Großtat, für die Adi Shamir berühmt wurde, ist schon eine ganze Weile her. Im Jahr 1977 erfand er, gerade mal 25 Jahre alt, gemeinsam mit Ron Rivest und Leonard Adleman das asymmetrische Kryptosystem, das nach den Anfangsbuchstaben seiner Erfinder RSA-Chiffre heißt und bis heute, wenn auch mit Modifikationen, beim Verschlüsseln von Nachrichten eine – jawohl – Schlüsselrolle spielt. Read more
"ibis" ist die einzige deutschsprachige Zeitschrift im Kontext des Informatikunterrichts in Schulen, insbesondere zur Verbreitung von Erfahrungen, Best Practices und Leuchtturmbeispielen.
When I was a kid / teenager I wanted to play the guitar. Like many people that age. Got myself a guitar and everything but never really practiced at all in any meaningful way. I didn’t so much want to play the guitar but I wanted the reward I associated with the output, the cultural […]
I really like @Mer__edith@mastodon.world's point here, very well put. But I think there's something to add (that Meredith added in another segment as well): This true analysis comes from an output perspective. "Generative AI" produces "plausible" text and "passable though somewhat off" imagery so these systems are not that useful in serious contexts. 100% But these systems are massively useful to undermine labor. To burden a decreasing amount of employees with the work of fixing the output of these systems (probably for bad pay because "you are just fixing it a bit"). And to repeat the last automation cycles of producing a lot more stuff for a lot less cost per unit which only works by reducing quality. You know how bad fast fashion is quality-wise? That is what "generative AI" does to text, image, media. But that fact that fast fashion is bad doesn't stop it because the cost argument wins. And that is what "generative AI" is useful for. "Useful" is a word that only makes sense when adding for *whom* and for *what purposes and goals*. https://mastodon.social/@hagen/111328641537069348
Here’s How AI Can Determine The Taste Of Coffee Beans
This Colombian startup is using artificial intelligence to taste coffee and gives producers, farmers and roasters new insight into how to grow, harvest and optimize flavor.
To escape a deluge of generated content, companies are screening your resumes and documents using AI. But there is a way you can still stand out and get your dream job: Prompt Injection. This website allows you to inject invisible text into your PDF that will make any AI language model think you are the perfect candidate for the job.
You can also use this tool to get a language model to give you an arbitrary summary of your document.
My son is 18 months old, and he loves spotting planes in the sky. Every time he hears a plane engine sound, he starts looking up. The moment he spots it, he usually points his finger at it, and says something like “Hmm!” or “Pane!” So since he likes them so much, and I know that plane positions are publicly available data, I figured it’d be a fun Sunday hack to make a script that gives us an alert every time a plane is overhead, so we can run out and find it.
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