Oops! We Automated Bullshit.

Department of Computer Science and Technology

“MIT Professor of AI Rodney Brooks summarises the working principle of ChatGPT as ‘it just makes up stuff that sounds good’. This is mathematically accurate, where ‘sounds good’ is an algorithm to imitate text found on the internet, while ‘makes up’ is the basic randomness of relying on predictive text rather than logic or facts.”

The creation and maintenance of large AI models needs a lot of cheap labour in developing countries.

The creation and maintenance of large AI models needs a lot of cheap labor in developing countries.

“In der Schattenwelt der KI: Klickarbeiter” by Christoph Jehle:

https://www.telepolis.de/features/In-der-Schattenwelt-der-KI-Klickarbeiter-9334821.html

“OpenAI und Sama stellten unterbezahlte Arbeiter in Kenia ein, um brutale Inhalte für ChatGPT zu filtern”

Utilize nuclear SMRs -- small modular reactors -- for big-tech?

“Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It’s Considering Small Nuclear Reactors” by Victor Tangermann:

https://futurism.com/the-byte/microsoft-power-train-ai-small-nuclear-reactors

“Small Nuclear Reactors: The Answer To Big Tech’s Energy Crisis?” By Felicity Bradstock

The Unlikely World Leader Who Just Dispelled Musk's Utopian AI Dreams

Published by Yair Rosenberg from the Atlantic.

theatlantic.com/benjamin-netanyahu-elon-musk-ai-pessimism

By Yair Rosenberg, a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of its newsletter Deep Shtetl, about the intersection of politics, culture, and religion.

artificial intelligence: AI at the workplace and other articles from telepolis

Published by telepolis from heise verlag:

telepolis.de/Künstliche Intelligenz am Arbeitsplatz: Wie die Furcht vor ihr gelindert wird

“Neue Technologien stoßen oft auf Ablehnung unter Beschäftigten. Das muss aber nicht so sein. Ein neues Forschungsprojekt zeigt, was hilft und was zu tun ist.” von Marcus Schwarzbach

artificial intelligence: profit versus freedom

Published by Yves Smith from naked capitalism: “Fearless commentary on finance, economics, politics and power”. A insightful publication with lots of cat-fotos all over the place.

nakedcapitalism.com/artificial-intelligence-profit-vs-freedom

By Richard D. Wolff, professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a visiting professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, in New York.