Notices tagged with ai

AI-kommisionen har släppt sin slutrapport. Jag är inte helt igenom den än, men den är... inte direkt som jag skulle vilja att den var.

Alla KPIer handlar om att jaga rankingar i globala index. Ingenstans ställs frågan om att välja _bort_ AI-lösningar, eller om det är rätt sak att satsa på. Det enda vi kan.bestämma är _hur_ vi omfamnar och använder AI, inte _om_.

Ska läsa vidare imorgon, men ja, inte imponerad hittills.

#svpol #AI

Daily Inspiration: "Follow the science" - Futurist Jim Carroll

If anything will keep me rooted in reality and on the side of optimism in 2025 it will be by continuing to follow the science.

This is in a society in which it seems an incredible number of people continue to reject the reality of both the fact of science itself and the acceleration that is occurring, which is, by and large, improving their lives. Odd.

Consider these observations from a recent keynote. The cost of sequencing the human genome has gone from about $100 million in 2011 to $200 or less today. The cost of 3D printing from about $50 per cm2 in 2010 to less than fifty cents today. Battery storage technology has gone from $1,100 per kWh to less than $100 today.

While it's difficult to state the absolute accuracy of numbers such as this because things are moving so fast, the fact is that similar trends abound.

(lots and lots of stats in the post)

I could go on, but you get the point.

We live in the era of the acceleration of science, a relentless pace, constantly accelerating even faster. The impact is far-reaching impacts in every single human endeavor. It leads us to fantastic discoveries such as lab-grown human blood for transfusions and surgeries; automated medical and pharmaceutical research laborites; self-healing concrete that is safer and longer lasting 3d printed human organs for transplants; synthetic bacteria used for new materials science; the medical discovery that involves major discoveries every 48 hours; and other fascinating new developments.

Science is at the heart of every single discovery, every significant invention, every massive disruption, and every profound transformation.

We'll spend much of 2025 with a ridiculous theatrical experience unfolding that involves grandiose showmanship by those eager to take out their anger and frustration on the very scientists who are leading to a better future.

How do we get through it all? In my case, I'll continue to track the trends that will define our future by following the reality of science.

It's where I discover my optimism, reinforce my hope, and continue to discover my exhilaration with tomorrow.

#Science #Innovation #Technology #AI #Progress #Future #Discovery #Research #Acceleration #Evolution

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2024/11/daily-inspiration-25-things-for-2025-2-follow-the-science/

"When you have a boss for an app, your real boss gets an accountability sink, a convenient scapegoat that can be blamed for your misery.

The fact that this makes you worse at your job, that it loses your boss money, is no guarantee that you will be spared. Rich people make great marks, and they can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. Markets won't solve this one – but worker power can..." - @pluralistic

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113548349587821374 #business #ai #tech #regulation

Meet the new #Zoom! Learn why we’re changing our name and what it means for our customers - https://www.zoom.com/en/blog/introducing-zoom-communications-inc/ "summarizing meeting tasks, drafting email responses, and preparing you for meetings, #AI Companion is your digital assistant that reduces your overall workload."

Combining #AI and #Crispr Will Be Transformational - https://www.wired.com/story/combining-ai-and-crispr-will-be-transformational/ "In my lab, we recently used AI tools to help us find small gene-editing proteins that had been sitting undiscovered in public genome databases because we simply didn’t have the ability to crunch all of the data that we’ve collected."

#AI is making #Philippine call center work more efficient, for better and worse - https://restofworld.org/2024/ai-reshaping-call-center-work-philippines/ "BPO workers say AI tools are monitoring their calls, assisting them with customers, and scoring their performance." AI overseers like this will be common soon...

#Nvidia’s new #AI audio model can synthesize sounds that have never existed - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/nvidias-new-ai-audio-model-can-synthesize-sounds-that-have-never-existed/ " What does a screaming saxophone sound like? The Fugatto model has an answer... "

We Need a New #RighttoRepair for Artificial Intelligence - https://www.wired.com/story/we-need-new-right-to-repair-for-artificial-intelligence/ "A growing movement to allow access to algorithmic workings won’t stop the ubiquitous spread of artificial intelligence, but it could restore public confidence in it." hard to do when algorithms aren't easily decomposable #ai

#Algorithms Are Coming for #Democracy—but It's Not All Bad - https://www.wired.com/story/algorithms-are-coming-for-democracy-but-its-not-all-bad/ "We will see #AI systems optimized for different parties and ideologies; for one faction not to trust the AIs of a rival faction; for everyone to have a healthy suspicion of corporate for-profit AI systems with hidden biases."

Need a Trillion-Parameter LLM? Google Cloud Is for You.: https://thenewstack.io/need-a-trillion-parameter-llm-google-cloud-is-for-you/ via @TheNewStack
hachyderm.io & @sjvn

#Google #Cloud for when you need to build a really, really big LLM for your #AI.

“[S]ometimes we need to stop hedging and just call things as they are. So here it is, plain and direct: Musk’s alignment with authoritarian ideologies makes him a fascist in both action and effect, regardless of his personal proclamations.”

— ChatGPT, as radicalised by @vruz

https://chatgpt.com/share/67448bd5-b418-8008-9e97-073574bef1af

#ElonMusk #fascist #ChatGPT #OpenAI #AI

Now at $18 Down From $199, Windows 11 Pro With AI Copilot Is Getting a Huge Price Cut For Black Friday

#Windows11Pro #LifetimeLicense #AI #BlackFridayDeal #LegalSoftware

https://gizmodo.com/now-at-18-down-from-199-windows-11-pro-with-ai-copilot-is-getting-a-huge-price-cut-for-black-friday-2000529512

PlayAI #clones #voices on command - https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/25/playai-clones-voices-on-command/ what could possibly go wrong...? #ai

Smile! UK cops spend tens of millions on live #facialrecognition tech - https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/25/uk_police_lfr_tender/ "Labour government keen, though critics paint it as a severe threat to #privacy" #ai

@baldur The #AI parasite demands we the collective host adapt to it, rather than it adapt to us.

OVHcloud is expanding in Canada to carve out an AI niche

#TechIndustry #Expansion #Innovation #AI #Canada

https://thelogic.co/news/ovhcloud-canada-expansion-data-centres/

Another great read from @pluralistic about the reason that disaster fantasies are popular among the right: it replaces actual disasters caused by *systemic problems* with imaginary disasters to be solved by *individuals*, which in turn elevate the status of the prepper to a one-man (let’s face it, it’s usually a man) hero who saves the day.

It also strikes me that the #TESCREAL nonsense that #AI techbros seem to gravitate to is just another flavor of this prepper story: why bother saving eight billion real humans today when you can save countless trillions of potential humans tomorrow by building a treasure trove that you deploy into your favorite technologies? You’re not a profit-driven resource hoarder—you’re a #longtermism one-man superhero!

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/24/mall-ninja-prophecy/#mano-a-mano

@eff

#AI has to be based on foundational knowledge. When the knowledge pulled in is largely developed by the current model "getting it right" is going to be a Sisyphean task.

#AI increasingly used for #sextortion, #scams and child abuse, says senior UK police chief - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/24/ai-increasingly-used-for-sextortion-scams-and-child-abuse-says-senior-uk-police-chief "The fast-developing technology is providing opportunities in ‘any crime type’ – and police must ‘move fast’ to catch up" sadly no surprise

#stupidity #ai