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A deep dive on AI safety and ethics with Databricks and ElevenLabs | TechCrunch
A deep dive on AI safety and ethics with Databricks and ElevenLabs | TechCrunch
As AI tools become cheaper and more accessible, the stakes for safety and ethics have never been higher. ElevenLabs’ Head of AI Safety Artemis Seaford and Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica joined TechCrunch AI editor Kyle Wiggers for a critical discussion on the multitude of ethical challenges facing AI today.  From deepfakes to responsible deployment, they […]
·techcrunch.com·
A deep dive on AI safety and ethics with Databricks and ElevenLabs | TechCrunch
Diabolus Ex Machina
Diabolus Ex Machina
This Is Not An Essay
·amandaguinzburg.substack.com·
Diabolus Ex Machina
Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces!
Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces!
Intermediate token generation (ITG), where a model produces output before the solution, has been proposed as a method to improve the performance of language models on reasoning tasks. These intermediate tokens have been called "reasoning traces" or even "thoughts" -- implicitly anthropomorphizing the model, implying these tokens resemble steps a human might take when solving a challenging problem.In this paper, we present evidence that this anthropomorphization isn't a harmless metaphor, and instead is quite dangerous -- it confuses the nature of these models and how to use them effectively, and leads to questionable research.
·arxiv.org·
Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces!
ChatGPT Should Not Exist
ChatGPT Should Not Exist
It Isn’t Just Bias and Threats to Creative Livelihoods. Generative AI Is Built on Nihilism. Its Real Product Is Despair.
·davidgolumbia.medium.com·
ChatGPT Should Not Exist
Opinion | Silicon Valley Is at an Inflection Point | Karen Hao | 13 comments
Opinion | Silicon Valley Is at an Inflection Point | Karen Hao | 13 comments
In my very first op-ed for The New York Times, I argue that the alliance we're now seeing between Silicon Valley and the US government is a threat to democracy. The Republican tax bill that passed the House last week, now up in the Senate, which includes a clause that would ban states from regulating AI for the next decade, will only cement that trajectory. https://lnkd.in/en5PG9Vu | 13 comments on LinkedIn
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Opinion | Silicon Valley Is at an Inflection Point | Karen Hao | 13 comments
Inventions hanging out
Inventions hanging out
Inventions hanging out, but a certain unexpected guest shows up.
·youtube.com·
Inventions hanging out
Google, AI firm must face lawsuit filed by a mother over suicide of son, US court says
Google, AI firm must face lawsuit filed by a mother over suicide of son, US court says
Alphabet's Google and artificial-intelligence startup Character.AI must face a lawsuit from a Florida woman who said Character.AI's chatbots caused her 14-year-old son's suicide, a judge ruled on Wednesday.
technology.Garcia sued both companies
·reuters.com·
Google, AI firm must face lawsuit filed by a mother over suicide of son, US court says
Who’s Afraid Of Agentic AI?
Who’s Afraid Of Agentic AI?
What if your doctor’s AI agent leaked your private health information, directly to the internet?
·disesdi.substack.com·
Who’s Afraid Of Agentic AI?
On "Vibe Coding"
On "Vibe Coding"
The hype about the potentials (it’s always future potential, never real current use) of AI has discarded its last cycle (“reasoning models”/”deep research”, both terms being factually untrue and deeply deceiving at best) and moved to a new double whammy of “agentic AI” and “Vibe Coding”. Now “agentic AI” basically just means that some LLM […]
·tante.cc·
On "Vibe Coding"
The Copilot Delusion
The Copilot Delusion
Chapter 1: My Coworker, The Programmer A shell of a man—more of a parrot than a person. My boss, a true believer in the sacred rite of Pair Programming, chained myself and this "programmer"-colleague together like conjoined twins from different planets. We shared a keyboard, but not a brain. Lord, not even close. "Hold up. I’ve got an idea. Gimme the keyboard real quick." An idea. Yes. The same way a toddler has “an idea” to stick a fork in a wall socket. I was halfway through construc
·deplet.ing·
The Copilot Delusion
Teaching students to use Google and digital archives.
Teaching students to use Google and digital archives.
Everybody wants to talk about teaching students how to use AI responsibly in research projects, and nobody wants to talk about how to teach students to use Google advanced search tools to find results from a specific website or date range; how to save a webpage as a PDF so you can access it later if a paywall goes up; or how to explore a digital newspaper archives. Yet that's how I spent this week in my ninth-grade world history course, and I think maybe that was the better use of time. Kids need fewer intellectual black boxes in their lives, and more understanding of how digital tools can help them break free of them. | 55 comments on LinkedIn
·linkedin.com·
Teaching students to use Google and digital archives.
By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall
By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall
Signal Desktop now includes support for a new “Screen security” setting that is designed to help prevent your own computer from capturing screenshots of your Signal chats on Windows. This setting is automatically enabled by default in Signal Desktop on Windows 11. If you’re wondering why we’re on...
·signal.org·
By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall