So I bought my parents a new Brother printer because their old one broke and my 72 year-old dad called customer support for help setting it up, instead of me. They had him run a command that showed him networking traffic and tried to tell him, 'Your network is compromised, buy

I am forever grateful for my @mit experiences. I went to the @mitcoop to pick up some swag and was pleasantly surprised to see my book on display. I’ve gotten used to walking into many book stores and learning they don’t carry Unmasking AI, or if they do it is tucked away

Glad to see more potential applications of AI that are, at a minimum, non-punitive and broadly aimed at increasing access & agency for people in need

Yessss! Thank you. 🙏 Want the gripping backstory on the quest to build artificial general intelligence, the secret rivalry between OpenAI and DeepMind and why society could end up shortchanged?

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A rare example of municipal AI being used for non-austerity and non-punitive purposes, and the success rate of the program overall is very high.

A really fantastic job opportunity at OMB just opened up today — this person would be central to the White House's oversight of federal agencies' use of AI: usajobs.gov/job/786286500

Los Angeles is using AI in a pilot program to try to predict homelessness and allocate aid. Thoughtful comments from MMitchell add depth to the discussion cnbc.com/2024/04/19/los…

just saw léon bottou give a fantastic talk MilaQuebec on 'borges and AI' (arxiv.org/abs/2310.01425).

love his framing of LLMs as 'fiction machines' & the notion of 'narrative necessity'; & 🩷🩷 the general idea of thinking about science through the lens of literature!

i asked SARAH, the World Health Organization's new AI chatbot, for medical help near me, and it provided an entirely fabricated list of clinics/hospitals in SF. fake addresses, fake phone numbers.
check out Jessica Nix's take on SARAH here:
bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg

There are seven confirmed instances of misidentification and wrongful arrests due to faulty facial recognition technology in the US. The impact of these harms is falling disproportionately on Black people. Here are their stories. 🧵innocenceproject.org/artificial-int…

My partner (listening to song): 'Ah, I know this one from your Shower Repertoire.'

Hugging Face releases a benchmark for testing generative AI on health tasks ift.tt/CbxPzHW

Talking about AI + antitrust + power at the state capitol tomorrow. Stop by if you’re in Sacramento

What??

On this single data point, I think it's ≈716 yrs of a US American driving to/from work every day.
(Can someone check me on that? Like a child, I need size to be put in terms I can wrap my head around, like how you explain that an acre is 'as big as 5000 elephants!!')
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