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#1984 #AI#GenerativeAI
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"Baker noted that "there's long been this very human-centric idea of intelligence that only humans are intelligent." That's fallen away within the scientific community as we've studied more about animal behavior. But there's still a bias to privilege human-like behaviors."
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/ai-versus-the-brain-and-the-race-for-general-intelligence/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/ai-versus-the-brain-and-the-race-for-general-intelligence/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
A #longread by @arstechnica about the #anthropocentric #bias of #AGI and #AI companies - money versus nature.
#brain #science #moreThanHuman #animals #intelligence #anthropocene #nature
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Many of the #AI systems Israel’s using in Palestine are based on eugenic ideas. Its “emphasis (is) on damage, not accuracy". Bcos these technologies are about scale. Not surgical precision. They are not surveillance, they’re incrimination technologies. They are like cluster bombs
The BBC is quite correct.
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Rakieta Falcon 9 płonęła nad Polską. Polska Agencja Kosmiczna potwierdza.
#RakietaFalcon9#PolskaAgencjaKosmiczna #polska #poland #falcon9#Technology #ai #news #nasa#Mastodon #fediverse #feditech #bluesky
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BDG news: AI: Japanese-Developed “BuddhaBot Plus” to Debut in Bhutan
🔗 Read here: https://tinyurl.com/3da62wfb
#Buddhism #Buddha #Bhutan #Japan #AI #Buddhadharma #KyotoUniversity
But but but...AGI is gonna bring utopia & AI will stop climate change!
"By looking at where power is being generated & the size of nearby populations, the researchers estimated the number of adverse health events that would likely be caused by AI-related air pollution."
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@timnitGebru Related to this #sustainable#AI #narrative this might be interesting too:
Rehak, R. (2024) On the (im)possibility of sustainable artificial intelligence. In: Züger, T. & Asghari, H. (2024) AI systems for the public interest. Internet Policy Review, 13(3). https://policyreview.info/articles/news/impossibility-sustainable-artificial-intelligence/1804
Anyways, thanks for your great and inspiring work. :)
Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see
1. The data it was trained and evaluated on
2. The code
3. The model architecture
4. The model weights.
DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.
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@timnitGebru thank you for sharing.
Quick question have you seen this initiative "European Open-Source AI index"?
By @dingemansemark & @andreasliesenfeld from @Radboud_uni
Looks good to me, to help people determine how open an AI model actually is. Are you aware of other initiatives like this?
I'd like to gather these initiatives and share it with @publicspaces so more people learn what to look for to determine if an AI is truly opensource.
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I just pre-ordered "The #AI con", the forthcoming book by @emilymbender & @alex >> https://thecon.ai/
"How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want"
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@timnitGebru is this year's Miles Conrad awardee! We are honored to recognize her contributions (particularly in the ethics of #AI ) to the information community. Join us at #NISOPlus25 (February 10–12 in Baltimore) to hear her closing keynote: https://niso.plus/2024/12/dr-timnit-gebru-to-receive-the-2025-miles-conrad-award/
And, following the social convention here, we will start with an #introduction
We are a Research Centre at the #UniversityOfWarwick dedicated to expanding the role of interdisciplinary methods through new lines of inquiry that cut across disciplinary boundaries.
Besides being committed to excellent research, we also offer a #PhD Programme and 3 #interdisciplinary Master degrees on #bigData#DataVisualisations and #DigitalMedia and Culture
You can find us at https://warwick.ac.uk/cim
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Our world-class research spans throughout disciplinary boundaries and covers a wide range of topics, such as #AI, #DigitalHealth Rights, #DataVisualisations, #DigitalGood#CyberSecurity, #Sustainability#Equity... amongst others.
You can find more about our research here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/research/
Why do you all think you can regulate the harms and risks of AI with laws that use exactly the same standardization methods and procedures? How come you criticize the thinking behind AI but ignore the thinking behind law?
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The problem with #AI regulation is that it is regulation about AI. Not only because it regulates something as vague as the concept of AI, but also because it again compartmentalizes, diffuses and decontextualizes systemic problems into categories.
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This is not a technology problem which needs a tech solution.
News headlines are - by definition - the most succinct but accurate summary of the story. That is what they are for. There is just no function for a summary of news headlines. #AI is a (bad) solution in search of a problem. Again. #AppleIntelligence#AIHype#SnakeOil
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"This article addresses the poverty of The Plan and the emptiness of its claims about #AI but, rather than a point-by-point rebuttal, it's about the underlying reasons why this #Labour government supports measures that will harm both people and the environment."
https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Labours-AI-Action-Plan-a-gift-to-the-far-right
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"These [#AI] technologies, and their impacts, just as the energy sources ‘required’ to power them will mean further centralisation of power and control and further disenfranchisement of people" – @BellaCaledonia
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/01/14/the-old-world-of-british-boosterism-and-banality/
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if you can sense that #AI is going to serve to further concentrate power among the few who already have the most, i highly recommend following @timnitGebru@dair-community.social and learning about the TESCREAL bundle:
https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13636/11599
https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13636/11599
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✍️ : A blog post that I wanted to write since two years!
Well played 🧙🏼♂️
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@georgetakei
The #Child answers like an #AI would, so we know where AI is @.
Still takes some #Time to #Lieutenant#Commander#Data !