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What’s Happening to Reading?
What’s Happening to Reading?
Joshua Rothman speculates on how advances in A.I. technology may change the future of reading.
·newyorker.com·
What’s Happening to Reading?
Why do people have such dramatically different experiences using AI?
Why do people have such dramatically different experiences using AI?
For some people, it seems, AI is an amazing machine which - while fallible - represents an incredible leap forward in productivity. For other people, it seems, AI is wrong more often than right and - although occasionally useful - requires constant supervision. Who is right? I recently pointed out a few common problems with LLMs. I was discussing this with someone relatively senior who works…
·shkspr.mobi·
Why do people have such dramatically different experiences using AI?
They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality.
·nytimes.com·
They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
Why Elon Musk and other tech billionaires have a different perspective
·rollingstone.com·
Rolling Stone
115 Years Ago, in ‘The Machine Stops,’ E. M. Forster Presented A Dark Potential Future for our Relationship to AI
115 Years Ago, in ‘The Machine Stops,’ E. M. Forster Presented A Dark Potential Future for our Relationship to AI
We’re so busy absorbed in the hyper-speed cycle of press releases from the technoculture’s AI juggernaut that it's hard to take a moment to look into the past for insight. If we did, we might realise there was a piece of literature, published more than a century ago, paints a dark potential future o
·christopherroosen.com·
115 Years Ago, in ‘The Machine Stops,’ E. M. Forster Presented A Dark Potential Future for our Relationship to AI
Climate Justice and Labor Rights | Part I: AI Supply Chains and Workflows
Climate Justice and Labor Rights | Part I: AI Supply Chains and Workflows
Tamara Kneese, Data & Society Research Institute Download full report here. Introduction In the second half of 2023, generative AI is dominating headlines. Policymakers, technologists, and activists are all grappling with its potential implications for communities and the planet. Integrating LLMs (large language models) into search engines may multiply the carbon emissions associated with each […]
·ainowinstitute.org·
Climate Justice and Labor Rights | Part I: AI Supply Chains and Workflows
AI gurus are the new snake oil salesmen
AI gurus are the new snake oil salesmen
The AI gold rush has given rise to a new breed of prospector, self-anointed ‘AI experts’ who are well aware that expertise can be manufactured, performed and, most importantly, monetised.
·jamescosullivan.substack.com·
AI gurus are the new snake oil salesmen
US states sue 23andMe to protect customers’ private data | CNN Business
US states sue 23andMe to protect customers’ private data | CNN Business
New York and more than two dozen other US states sued 23andMe to challenge the sale of its customers’ private information after the genetic testing company filed for bankruptcy in March.
·amp-cnn-com.cdn.ampproject.org·
US states sue 23andMe to protect customers’ private data | CNN Business
Artificial Intelligence Is Not Intelligent
Artificial Intelligence Is Not Intelligent
Despite what tech CEOs might say, large language models are not smart in any recognizably human sense of the word.
·theatlantic.com·
Artificial Intelligence Is Not Intelligent
Great Engineers, Terrible Philosophers - Public Seminar
Great Engineers, Terrible Philosophers - Public Seminar
Luciano Floridi, Giannis Perperidis, and Alexandros Schismenos discuss the rapid evolution of AI technology and the nature of intelligence.
·publicseminar.org·
Great Engineers, Terrible Philosophers - Public Seminar
The Efficiency Dilemma
The Efficiency Dilemma
If our machines use less energy, will we just use them more?
·newyorker.com·
The Efficiency Dilemma
On Generative AI in the Classroom: Give Up, Give In, or Stand Up
On Generative AI in the Classroom: Give Up, Give In, or Stand Up
Edward Dunsworth Two approaches dominate discussion about how professors should handle generative “artificial intelligence” in the classroom: give up or give in. Give up. Faced with a powerful new …
·activehistory.ca·
On Generative AI in the Classroom: Give Up, Give In, or Stand Up
Bartz v. Anthropic parties fight over production of datasets spreadsheet and books dataset outside of inspection environment. Anthropic reveals it spent tens of millions of dollars to compile its own scanned books dataset.
Bartz v. Anthropic parties fight over production of datasets spreadsheet and books dataset outside of inspection environment. Anthropic reveals it spent tens of millions of dollars to compile its own scanned books dataset.
As Judge Alsup is deliberating over Anthropic’s motion for summary judgment on fair use, the parties continue to fight over discovery. One of the more fascinating discovery disputes relates t…
·chatgptiseatingtheworld.com·
Bartz v. Anthropic parties fight over production of datasets spreadsheet and books dataset outside of inspection environment. Anthropic reveals it spent tens of millions of dollars to compile its own scanned books dataset.
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT
·rollingstone.com·
Rolling Stone
AI-Generated Passport Passed a KYC Check: A Real-World Failure of Compliance Systems
AI-Generated Passport Passed a KYC Check: A Real-World Failure of Compliance Systems
A Polish researcher used ChatGPT-4o to create a fake passport, which was approved by a platform that used standard ID and selfie-based verification. This might sound like the utopia everyone was afraid of, but it’s the reality as of today, and it exposes a serious gap in the way digital onboarding i
·linkedin.com·
AI-Generated Passport Passed a KYC Check: A Real-World Failure of Compliance Systems