Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@qoto.org
Reasonably happy almost all the time, somehow. Extremely lucky father & husband; 20+ year software veteran / exec now studying the software industry as Ph.D @York University Science and Technology Studies. Blog at https://sakhavi.wordpress.com
Joined Oct 2022
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Integrating a chatbot w no connection to truth into search, a service people use to learn new info, is a wretchedly bad call that will likely have serious consequences.
IMO we'll look back at this moment with the same cringe we now reserve for NFTs.
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I give EU regulators a hard time for being too conservative in tech regulation but I’ll always give them credit for at least understanding the problem space.
The real AI risk is discriminatory algorithms not Skynet becoming self aware and dropping nukes.
US regulators on the other hand are either mouthpieces of lobbyists or regurgitating viral tweets
Some actually epic analysis here from Emily Tucker.
From: @justinhendrix
https://mastodon.social/@justinhendrix/110542856232383897
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Trump indictment casts shadow over Biden presidency.
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The best [citation needed] ever.
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Well, today is the 1st day of three days we’ve all been waiting for… 👇
Are you ready?
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“but now that you have stung me, we will both surely drown,” said the users to the profit-seeking corporation.
“lol,” said the corporation. “lmao”
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When I look up at Mars, shining brightly in the night sky, I find myself filled with hope that one day I will be able to point and say "See? That's where all the billionaires died."
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Whenever I see someone on one of these, I imagine they started out with a much larger vehicle and their journey has been riddled with a series of mishaps
#OldMememesNeverDie
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My sense is this is about 60% of what was needed in a statement aimed at adequately addressing the infamy of hosting an event in the name of Agile in Ron Desantis’ Florida. There’s no naming of the harms to female, gay or trans Floridians; there’s no “Yeah, Florida’s unacceptable rn.” What say you, @GeePawHill @RonJeffries ?
From: @agilealliance
https://agilealliance.social/@agilealliance/110531988819184741
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"Don't prosecute Trump for crimes because then we will make up crimes to retributively prosecute Democrats for!" --Every Pro-Trump argument on the right.
And the dumbest thing about that argument is that Republicans already do that so their "threat" is that they'll never change.
[Laughter]
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I love how so much of the AI debate is on things like:
* Will AI take people's jobs?
* Will AI destroy creativity?
* Will AI take over the world?
* Will AI be used to make people poorer?
And not:
* Will corporations that use AI get rid of people's jobs?
* Will corporations that use AI destroy creativity?
* Will corporations that use AI try to take over the world?
* Will corporations that use AI make people poorer?
Because these LLMs and machine learning systems and so forth aren't just wandering around randomly out there - they're owned by corporations. The corporations are the ones putting them to use. The executives that run those corporations are the ones making the decisions to pay people less, to increase their profits, to make creative people act as subeditors for LLMs.
It's the corporations, and the ethics-free systems that govern them, that cause these things. They're the ones pushing to have more AI.
The rest of us would be happy just having a bit more humanity in the world.
“This is secret information. Look, look at this.” is the new “Ugh, this is terrible; taste this.”
Oh, so THOSE were the people to tell about the crimes.
From: @benjysarlin
https://bird.makeup/users/benjysarlin/statuses/1667140513974169605
This seems like a BFD, or however you say that in Canadian.
From: @jeffjarvis
https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/110513942685050778
Step 1 was to do the evil. Step 2 was to “flood the zone with [mis- and disinformation]” about it.
Step 3 seems to be to persecute anyone who might ask questions about step 2.
From: @melissaryan
https://me.dm/@melissaryan/110498507395897821
Reasonably happy almost all the time, somehow. Extremely lucky father & husband; 20+ year software veteran / exec now studying the software industry as Ph.D @York University Science and Technology Studies. Blog at https://sakhavi.wordpress.com
Joined Oct 2022
