The Curious Educator’s Guide to AI – Simple Book Publishing
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Models All The Way Down
LAION-5B is an open-source foundation dataset used to train AI models such as Stable Diffusion. It contains 5.8 billion image and text pairs—a size too large to make sense of. In this visual investigation, we follow the construction of the dataset to better understand its contents, implications and entanglements.
Artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa—with a lot of water
The cost of building an artificial intelligence product like ChatGPT can be hard to measure.
Why the Great AI Backlash Came for a Tiny Startup You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
A literary analytics project called Prosecraft has shuttered after backlash from the writing community. It's a harbinger of a bigger cultural tide shift.
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 […]
OpenAI launches web crawling GPTBot, sparking blocking effort by website owners and creators
When OpenAI added the GPTBot support page, it also introduced a way to block the service from scraping your website through robots.txt files.
So You Want to Be a Sorcerer in the Age of Mythic Powers… (The AI Episode) — The Emerald
AI By the People, For the People
This startup wants to help millions of people whose languages are marginalized online gain better access to AI tools
swer, Chopra says, lies in Karya’s corporate structure. Karya is registered as a non
The truth about ChatGPT’s degrading capabilities - TechTalks
A new paper shows that the behavior of ChatGPT changes over time. But it doesn't necessarily mean that the model degrades.
AI Panic is Baby's First Colonialism | Nima Boscarino
Western men are grappling with their first experience of colonialism in the only way they know how – assuming they're the first ones here!
AI Improves Employee Productivity by 66%
Using generative AI (like ChatGPT) in business improves users’ performance by 66%, averaged across 3 case studies. More complex tasks have bigger gains, and less-skilled workers benefit the most from AI use.
Programs to detect AI discriminate against non-native English speakers, shows study
Over half of essays written by people were wrongly flagged as AI-made, with implications for students and job applicants
ChatGPT And More: Large Scale AI Models Entrench Big Tech Power
Industry narratives attempt to stave off regulation, but large-scale AI needs more scrutiny, not less.
The AI Ethics Revolution— A Brief Timeline
The myth that genius men in Silicon Valley are solely responsible for advancements in AI has been completely debunked as the contributions…
Hope, fear, and AI
How people are really using AI (and what they’re afraid of).
Inside the AI Factory
How many humans does it take to make tech seem human? Millions.
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Self-healing code is the future of software development
Developers love automating solutions to their problems, and with the rise of generative AI, this concept is likely to be applied to both the creation, maintenance, and the improvement of code at an entirely new level.
Talk: The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
An exploration of the problems and possible futures of flooding the web with generative AI content
Language Model Sketchbook, or Why I Hate Chatbots
Sketchy ideas for interfaces that play with the novel capabilities of language models
AI: First New UI Paradigm in 60 Years
AI is introducing the third user-interface paradigm in computing history, shifting to a new interaction mechanism where users tell the computer what they want, not how to do it — thus reversing the locus of control.
EU Parliament vote on AI Act: Lawmakers chose to protect people against harms of AI systems - AlgorithmWatch
After long months of intense negotiations, members of the European Parliament voted on the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act). AlgorithmWatch applauds the Parliament for strengthening fundamental rights protection against the negative impacts of AI, such as that of face recognition in public spaces. Yet, the Parliament missed the opportunity to enhance protection for some people who would need it most.
It’s time to talk about the real AI risks
Experts at RightsCon want us to focus less on existential threats, and more on the harms here and now.
Building LLM applications for production
This post consists of three parts.
Part 1 discusses the key challenges of productionizing LLM applications and the solutions that I’ve seen.
Part 2 discusses how to compose multiple tasks with control flows (e.g. if statement, for loop) and incorporate tools (e.g. SQL executor, bash, web browsers, third-party APIs) for more complex and powerful applications.
Part 3 covers some of the promising use cases that I’ve seen companies building on top of LLMs and how to construct them from smaller tasks.
This post consists of three parts.
Part 1 discusses the key challenges of productionizing LLM applications and the solutions that I’ve seen.
Part 2 discusses how to compose multiple tasks with control flows (e.g. if statement, for loop) and incorporate tools (e.g. SQL executor, bash, web browsers, third-party APIs) for more complex and powerful applications.
Part 3 covers some of the promising use cases that I’ve seen companies building on top of LLMs and how to construct them from smaller tasks.
Playfully Uncovering AI's Serious Novelty
Sylvan Rackham, a Research Fellow at ToftH, sees merit in taking a playful approach to understand implications of generative AI.
Artificial Intelligence and the Ever-Receding Horizon of the Future
Powerful tech figures ask us to look to the future — but they forget that the future belongs to us all, says Data & Society's Jenna Burrell.
What languages dominate the internet?
The one you’re reading this in, for starters.
What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?
Stephen Wolfram explores the broader picture of what's going on inside ChatGPT and why it produces meaningful text. Discusses models, training neural nets, embeddings, tokens, transformers, language syntax.
This Terrifying Meme Is Capturing All Of Our Deepest Fears About AI
Enter: the Shoggoth.
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State of GPT | BRK216HFS
Learn about the training pipeline of GPT assistants like ChatGPT, from tokenization to pretraining, supervised finetuning, and Reinforcement Learning from Hu...
The future of AI is chilling – humans have to act together to overcome this threat to civilisation | Jonathan Freedland
The challenge seems daunting. But we have overcome terrifying dangers before, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
Eliezer Yudkowsky puts it