We accidentally invented computers that can lie to us and we can't figure out how to make them stop

This is from Stanford HAI's #AIIndex2023. The carbon emissions to run AI models is still insane. hai.stanford.edu/news/2023-stat…

Because OpenAI just takes any data you enter - and you have no way of removing it - suddenly things happen like Samsung's confidential documents are now part of ChatGPT, and you can probably query them, even when you don't work at Samsung. The EU does not want this to happen.

🤖 Ich habe eine Datenschutz-Checkliste erstellt, die ich allen empfehle, die KI-Dienste direkt oder über Schnittstellen für berufliche Zwecke nutzen wollen: "KI & Datenschutz - Checkliste für den Einsatz künstlicher Intelligenz" datenschutz-generator.de/ki-datenschutz/ #ki #chatgpt #dsgvo

LLMs Are Better Than Human Data Annotators -GPT-3 was helpful but not better than humans (e.g. arxiv.org/abs/2108.13487) -GPT-3.5 is about on par w/ humans (e.g. arxiv.org/abs/2303.16854 w/ self-explanations) -GPT-4 is better than $25/hr humans (e.g. arxiv.org/abs/2304.03279)

Retweet if you were part of one of those tiny first 4 bars. [source: buff.ly/3jWsfiC]

A thread. x.com/ME_McCullough/…

This is a baby GPT with two tokens 0/1 and context length of 3, viewing it as a finite state markov chain. It was trained on the sequence "111101111011110" for 50 iterations. The parameters and the architecture of the Transformer modifies the probabilities on the arrows. E.g. we

Ambitious people need each other. Ambition breeds a particular kind of frustration, and the more ambitious you are, the larger it looms. Without like-minded peers, ambitious people become suffocated by life — chained by tall poppy syndrome and the dogmas of complacency. As

Given another horrifying video is doing the rounds on social media its a good time to share this about looking after you're mental health while looking at that sort of imagery. The best advice is don't do it unless it's your job and there's a purpose to it bellingcat.com/resources/2022…

It was a pleasure meeting with the brave Ukrainian drone operators. We talked about the challenges they face on a daily basis, but they also wanted to talk about Wookiees & farm boys & droids, oh my! Show your support here: u24.gov.ua #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦

This is what the world looks like to a self-driving car.

“The other day” - Minimum two days ago, maximum six months ago “Just the other day” - Any day in the past fortnight

"Legal, effective, ethical, safe, and otherwise trustworthy." reuters.com/technology/us-…

"Must not incite subversion of national sovereignty or the overturn of the socialist system, incite separatism, undermine national unity (...), as well as content that might disrupt the economic or social order." Overview by China Law Translate/Jeremy Daum. chinalawtranslate.com/en/overview-of…

Googelt mental privacy. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35…

It's spring in Berlin when you mind your business (ice cream) and a stranger gives you a flower.

Have you thought about teaching online safety, either to colleagues or students? Guess what: Over the past few months the Trust and Safety Teaching Consortium - a loosely-organized coalition of academic, industry and non-profit experts - has been creating teaching materials.

Happening tomorrow (Wednesday)! Get access to new teaching materials, and hear from Trust and Safety Teaching Consortium members Mariana Olaizola, Inbal Goldberger, Ina Kamenova, Alex Leavitt, PhD (they/them), Devika Malik, Michael R. Swenson, Amar Ashar, Tabea Wilke | @[email protected], and more!

Hey Google, welcher Plan steckt dahinter, dass Maps seit kurzem zur Navigation fürs Fahrrad oder mit dem ÖPNV kaum mehr zu gebrauchen ist? Umwege über Umwege, extrem lange Fahrtzeiten. Im Moment hilft nur richtig gute Ortskenntnis.