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YAY! The CEO of OpenAI just recognized that LLMs generate text-based tokens using randomness and probability! Something objectively true that people have oddly made controversial! Check out our paper on this that introduced the term. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/34… It's a good day. 🤗🦜

To the public, Microsoft uses its reputation as an AI & sustainability leader to tell a compelling story: AI will do wonders to help solve the climate crisis. To fossil-fuel firms, Microsoft has a different message: AI will help them drill, baby, drill. 1/ theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

I talk to the press largely to *combat* AI hype. It's beyond frustrating to be misquoted in ways that contribute to it instead. New newsletter post: buttondown.com/maiht3k/archiv…

MAIHT3k Ep 40: Elders Need Care, Not 'AI' Surveillance buzzsprout.com/2126417/episod… Prof. Clara Berridge joined me & Alex Hanna (اليكس حنٌا) to expose the structural problems tech companies are exploiting to motivate yet more surveillance tech. Thx to ctaylsaurus for production

"It is not the case that “AI gathers data from the Web and learns from it.” The reality is that AI companies gather data and then optimize models to reproduce representations of that data for profit." techpolicy.press/challenging-th… Long, v. worthwhile read from Eryk Salvaggio.

Correcting the Record "...I never talk about "AI" as if it is a thing, nor about these systems "learning" and "reading"." ~ @[email protected] on Mastodon buff.ly/4d5DAFW #GenerativeAI

After a few days of marathon editing, here is @[email protected] on Mastodon and I celebrating turning in a final copy of The AI Con!