ICYMI: the ImageNet retrospective/critique we wrote with Kate Crawford has been accepted to Journal of Data-centric Machine Learning Research !
In it, we look at the origins of ImageNet, how it's used, and the consequences of labeling images of people based on images alone.
Check it out here:…

Hmm, why do I suddenly have a blue check again?🤔I'm *still* not giving you money for this, Elon.

Happy anniversary to those who celebrate.

ELVIS has risen - as the 'Ensuring Likeness, Voice, and Image Security Act' of Tennessee 2024. It protects living and dead artists from being resurrected as non-consensual AI characters.
Great overview from Jennifer Rothman rightofpublicityroadmap.com/news_commentar…

You can listen to my ⁦Radio 4 Analysis⁩ prog here, featuring ⁦Kate Crawford⁩, ⁦Divya Siddarth⁩, ⁦Marietje Schaake⁩, ⁦Geoffrey Hinton⁩, ⁦Michael Wooldridge⁩, ⁦Connor Leahy⁩, Reuben Adams and Shazeda Ahmed podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/how…

Our new article on 'Big AI: Cloud Infrastructure and the Industrialisation of AI' w/Fernando van der Vlist & Fabian Ferrari on the convergence of AI and Big Tech (‘Big AI’), and AI’s ‘industrialization’ – its pervasive expansion and integration across industries. doi.org/10.1177/205395…

🚨BREAKING: The European Parliament has just APPROVED the AI Act. What everyone should know:

➵ The AI Act follows a risk-based approach. Some AI systems are banned, such as those involving:

- Cognitive behavioral manipulation of people or specific vulnerable groups;
- Social…

The question of whether Machines Can Think...is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim.
-- Edsgar Dijkstra

This is also because the computer science field confuses privacy with confidentiality because it conceptualises legal and ethical concepts that cannot be mathematically formalised as errors. Does not have a view of power.

'Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret' -- important article from Kate Crawford

nature.com/articles/d4158…

The expansion of data centers will contribute to a doubling of Virginia’s peak energy demand by 2040 and will require a grid with the same capacity as France’s, writes ellafanger.
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