Gregory's ServerSo much benefiting of humanity by OpenAI and friends.
Definitely on the way to that utopia they promise us will come with so-called AGI.
https://theintercept.com/2024/10/25/africom-microsoft-openai-military/
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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? @timnitGebru early radios required repairs - I’ve seen schematics that were packed with sets from the early 20s. Why would you buy something that you or the local repair guy couldn’t fix.. 🗣️ 🔊 July 8th @ 8am PDT/5pm CET, we’re launching the Data Workers’ Inquiry: 15 data workers from 4 continents answer their own research questions in their chosen modality, ranging from comprehensive reports, to animated shorts, documentaries, zines, comic books, podcasts & more. I’ll moderate a panel with founders of the 1st African content moderators union, & @DAIR's Krystal Kauffman, lead organizer of @turkopticon. We'll highlight each researcher throughout the week but I'll start with two. Fasica Gebrekidan worked as a content moderator for Meta via Sama in Nairobi, Kenya for 2 years, until she was laid off for attempting to form a data workers’ union. Her heartbreaking report is on the unimaginable toll of both experiencing #TigrayGenocide AND moderating content related to it. Imagine. She discusses mental health issues and drug abuse. You can download her report at https://data-workers.org/fasica/ #TigrayGenocide, the worst genocide of the 21st century, has been the single most disturbing event in my lifetime. Not only this genocide, but also seeing the ease with which so many people deny it, with so much anger towards those who have the audacity to even mention the genocide. The fact that a genocide of this proportion has been executed with such little media coverage & that the likes of Last Week Tonight had ZERO interest in even mentioning it a single time, regardless of how many angles I gave them, is something I will never forget.  @timnitGebru right now it doesn't feel like the 21st century is turning out any better than the 20th. I still remember hoping that it would ❗️Urgent Call to Rebuild Healthcare in War-Torn Tigray.❗️ I'll be matching up to $15k of your donations. GoFundMe is unreliable for the horn of Africa atm, so I am using TipHub for this campaign. Please let me know if you have any issues donating. The ongoing genocide in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray has killed more than 700 thousand people, and left at least 100 thousand victims of rape as a weapon of war. The more than 100 THOUSAND estimated victims of rape as a weapon of war are suffering in silence. Think about that scale, and ask yourself why you haven't constantly been hearing about these victims. #TigrayGenocide @timnitGebru the government… the one driven by societal pressure… saying it’s the responsibility of companies… the ones driven by profit alone. ideology is a hell of a drug. @timnitGebru it’s a specific problem for open source but I see it as a symptom of a more general problem of how corps don’t interact sustainably with society. Maybe closing that loop for a the specific problem of open source health and sustainability will inform us to approaches for the general problem. I can't emphasize enough my disdain for the whole AGI scam. Used to centralize & consolidate power by the already rich & powerful while selling a techno-utopia they promise will come any day now, if we just let them continue to kill the environment, exploit labor & steal data 👍
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  My current stance is that anyone talking unironically about AGI as if it were a real thing should be regarded the same way that one would regard advocates for Scientology or the Moonies. I forgot that I had written this in September. It was published in November. Since the its behind a paywall, I'll paste the text that you can't access in this thread. The field of artificial intelligence (ai) cycles through what are called AI summers, epochs where every other news headline seems to be about AI and there is ample funding for the field, and AI winters, which come from the disappointment of undelivered overpromises during the summers. We are currently in perhaps the most intense AI summer ever, where just the mere mention of “AI” gets startups 1550% more funds in investment. I wrote this short summary of our @DAIR #NoTechForApartheid event co-hosted with Haymarket Books. I came away from the event thinking that this is even worse than I knew and that we have even more of a responsibility to say #NoTechForApartheid. This is the post: https://dair-institute.org/blog/NoTechForApartheid/ I am incredibly grateful to our speakers & this summary only scratches the surface. There are too many important points that I couldn't fit into this post. I highly, highly recommend that you watch the full recording. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVrjA-5Ak0U&t=3s Incredible that such a statement needs to be said, and even more incredible that journalists saying risk the repercussions to their careers. @timnitGebru It's really something that AP made someone remove their name from the list too The field of #AI is such junk pseudo science at this point. Which other field has its equivalent of Nobel prize winners going absolutely bonkers? Between him and Hinton and Yoshua Bengio (his brother has the complete opposite view at least) clown town is getting crowded.
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@timnitGebru Jusult off the top of my head, William Schockley and Linus Pauling were Nobel Prize winning crackpots.  @timnitGebru So, the other "godfather" of AI, Turing Award Winner Yoshua Bengio has decided to FULLY align himself with the #TESCREAL bundle, writing a thing about "rogue AI" and prominently citing people like Nick Bostrom. Take a good look at this text here. This is written by non other than Nick Bostrom, prominently featured by so many of these fathers and godfathers and sons and brothers and nephews of "AI" (given that its all men you know). That's right "Blacks are more stupid than whites" and then he proceeds to call us the N word. That's not even the worst of it, because his entire career has been "raising awareness" about "dysgenic pressures" (the opposite of eugenic pressures), as existential risks to humanity. That is, those of us who are "stupider than mankind as a whole" reproducing too much and creating an inferior race. "Word of the guilty pleas and cooperation agreements came after Bankman-Fried took off from the Bahamas aboard a U.S. government plane flying to New York, where he is expected to be arraigned Thursday on an eight-count indictment that charges him with orchestrating one of the biggest financial frauds in American history." https://abcnews.go.com/US/sam-bankman-frieds-girlfriend-ftx-founder-plead-guilty/story?id=95683343 "On Monday, a video footage showing two decapitated heads put on pikes and paraded by members of “Fano militia” was widely shared on social media." I just saw a few seconds of a video showing this and I truly have no words. Truly. See you in ~10 hours. You can still sign up here if you want to join us https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dair-s-1-year-anniversary-celebration-tickets-444428637017 Lets support people on here who've been cleaning up for a while. Ones I've learned about are @Are0h and @CaribenxMarciaX. Ro has a patreon you can donate to here: https://www.patreon.com/Are0h Marcia has a gofundme here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-marcia-get-stable If you know of any more please comment in the replies so I can learn about them and support.
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@timnitGebru We may also need better structures to speed up and improve reporting and sharing of blocklists across instances. The recent growth has been overwhelming, a lot of admins are still struggling to keep things online. At the same time there are more hate servers being created all the time. We gotta figure out how to get better at dealing with those, ideally not just resorting to playing whackamole using a hashtag. @timnitGebru@dair-community.social @CaribenxMarciaX@scholar.social Wow, thanks for this. |
“OpenAI’s stated corporate mission remains “to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.”
Lol