Notices by Timnit Gebru (she/her) (timnitgebru@dair-community.social), page 3

@mdekstrand @emilymbender Interesting. No I don't. thanks for letting us know.

"More concerning, they said, is a rush by medical centers to utilize Whisper-based tools to transcribe patients’ consultations with doctors, despite OpenAI’ s warnings that the tool should not be used in “high-risk domains.”"

"But Whisper has a major flaw: It is prone to making up chunks of text or even entire sentences, according to interviews with more than a dozen software engineers, developers and academic researchers. Those experts said some of the invented text — known in the industry as hallucinations — can include racial commentary, violent rhetoric and even imagined medical treatments.

https://apnews.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-health-business-90020cdf5fa16c79ca2e5b6c4c9bbb14

Experts said that such fabrications are problematic because Whisper is being used in a slew of industries worldwide to translate and transcribe interviews, generate text in popular consumer technologies and create subtitles for videos."

Instead of "urging" OpenAI to "fix" their tools, as people have been doing forever now while handing them billions, why not use transcription tools that are not built by them?

Who's writing about "frontier AI" being an apt name they've created to describe whatever they're doing, given how they wanna colonize everything?

During the communications black out, he used satellite image analysis to uncover Eritrean refugee camps that were intentionally burnt. To this day, 70,000 Eritreans are unaccounted for.

Zecharias continues to uncover drone massacres in Ethiopia, by the government. Take a look at this cover story on @thecontinent.

https://www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/287178_e11e90bd50bc4161be1b98cf79062d02.pdf

Congratulations to our very own @ZekuZelalem for being short listed for the Martin Adler Prize in the #RoryPeckAwards, honoring a local freelance journalist whose work has made a significant contribution to international newsgathering.

Zecharias's journalism has been instrumental in bringing awareness to the public about the genocide in Tigray that killed at the very least 700,000 people and left hundreds of thousands of women as victims of rape as a weapon of war.

🗣️ This Monday I’ll be moderating a conversation with these amazing women doing data work and researching its impacts: Kauna Malgwi, Botlhokwa Ranta, Fasica Gebrekidan & Milagros Miceli ( @milamiceli).

⏰ 9am PT/6pm CET.
➡️ Zoom: https://events.zoom.us/ev/Ani8O9hWqLxviqMUvxIGtz4aJEc9MyTM5jo8fL661elG2-VJg4b_~Ajq6glpXyOf_ZsujePxsiks98HIxPasb7ikstxjEXqwEiqr-EpfC_vJdTQ
➡️Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

Let me tell you a little bit about who is joining me in this conversation. 🧵

Fasica Gebrekidan worked for 2 years as a content moderator for Meta via Sama in Nairobi, Kenya, until she was laid off for attempting to form a data workers’ union. She was moderating content related to #TigrayGenocide while being a victim of it at the same time. Imagine.

Fasica’s heartbreaking report explores the mental health struggles of Meta’s content moderators working for Sama, particularly those from Tigray who moderated graphic content related to the genocide in their region. Download it at https://data-workers.org/fasica/.

s it time to retire the Nobel Prize yet because at this point, I don't know what to say.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/leading-economists-suggest-ethereum-co-074433885.html

Remember our favorite manel saving "humanity" from the existential risks of magical "artificial general intelligence"? This nobel nominated cryptobro gave the Future of Life Institute, hosts of such manels, $665M.

Our favorite people in an epic TESCREAL manel. There's now, Nobel laureate Demis Hassabis, There's Elon Musk & Jaan Tallinn. Who could forget Nick Bostrom, so worried that stupid ppl (which he clarified Black ppl to be), are reproducing too much, resulting in an inferior race?

Q: What's better than this manel?
A: This manel's views backed up by a Nobel Prize.

Fond memories of the co-founder of this institute consulting Netanyahu to stop the extinction of "humanity"?

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/25/a-665m-crypto-war-chest-roils-ai-safety-fight-00148621

So we're just watching live footage of people already displaced how many times inside a hospital being burned alive and just carrying on like normal?

To clarify, I'm an electrical engineer and know why datasheets are important, how they're used etc. But does anyone know how they came to be that important, and whether there was a time when people didn't have datasheets associated with their components. And were there discussions of having such documentation and what should go in those documentations? Were there arguments? What was the process by which we arrived at having datasheets?

Does anyone with a background in electrical engineering/electronics etc have any references or other information for how datasheets became a standard thing, or something that is expected of a manufacturer to produce?

Google wasted no time in using the Nobel prize to argue that its ok to steal data and exploit labor to train generative AI models.

➡ https://chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2024/10/10/mentioning-the-nobel-prizes-for-ai-research-google-asks-court-to-consolidate-leovy-and-zhang-suits/

And Geoff Hinton wasted no time in telling us how the Nobel prize will add credibility to his claims on LLMs understanding and more of his doomer stuff.

➡ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-icD_KmvnnM

Fun times ahead of us.

The Nobel committee out here doing the devil’s work. They've moved on from their specialty in awarding peace prizes to genociders, to now giving Hinton one in…physics?

So the news is gonna be "Nobel laureate" telling us that “super intelligent” text synthesis machines will render us extinct 🙄

This dude is now a "Nobel laureate."

"he said Gebru’s ideas “aren’t as existentially serious as the idea of these things getting more intelligent than us and taking over.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/women-warnings-ai-danger-risk-before-chatgpt-1234804367/amp/

"‘There will never be enough computing power to create AGI using machine learning that can do the same, because we’d run out of natural resources long before we'd even get close,’ @olivia adds.

Indeed they're on their way to having us run out.

Read this paper by @Iris, Olivia Guest, Federico Adolfi, Ronald de Haan, Antonina Kolokolova & Patricia Rich.

https://www.ru.nl/en/research/research-news/dont-believe-the-hype-agi-is-far-from-inevitable

Today's rendition of the game "is this AI hype from 2024 or 1974"?

"In three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being. I mean a machine that will be able to read Shakespeare, grease a car, play office politics tell a joke, have a fight. At that point the machine will begin to educate itself with fantastic speed. In a few months it will be at genius level and a few months after its powers will be incalculable."

Minsky ~1970.