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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…
Sustainable Design Toolkits And Resources — Smashing Magazine
How can we create products and experiences that don’t cause harm to the planet and to the people who use them? What do we need to consider to make more sustainable design decisions and reduce the carbon footprint of our websites? In this post, we compiled valuable resources that will get you familiar with the principles of sustainable design.
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AI-generated tweets might be more convincing than real people, research finds
A survey found that people were more likely to believe AI-generated disinformation.
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AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born
The capacity of AI to generate content is overwhelming the web.
Hope, fear, and AI
How people are really using AI (and what they’re afraid of).
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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.
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Microsoft’s supply chain is hooked on fossil fuels
Despite Microsoft’s big climate change ambitions, its supply chain depends on fossil fuels, with some large suppliers not even having a single renewable energy source to power their operations.
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.
The industry more damaging to the environment than airlines
Despite the ‘clean’ appearance, data giants’ emissions are set to worsen as the use of AI grows
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...
‘They’re afraid their AIs will come for them’: Doug Rushkoff on why tech billionaires are in escape mode
The leading intellect on digital culture believes the recent tech reckoning is corrective justice for Silicon Valley barons
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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
‘I do not think ethical surveillance can exist’: Rumman Chowdhury on accountability in AI
One of the leading thinkers on artificial intelligence discusses responsibility, ‘moral outsourcing’ and bridging the gap between people and technology
The Dire Defect of ‘Multilingual’ AI Content Moderation
Social media companies claim new language models can remove harmful content in every language. But those systems’ shortcomings can have vast consequences.
Deskilling on the Job | danah boyd | apophenia
Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?
As it’s currently imagined, the technology promises to concentrate wealth and disempower workers. Is an alternative possible?
AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are | Naomi Klein
Tech CEOs want us to believe that generative AI will benefit humanity. They are kidding themselves
AI Index Report 2023 – Artificial Intelligence Index