WizardCan confirm, the megacorp I work in is right on #4 of the list:
tante (@[email protected])
McSweeney's on "AI finances" goes harder than most business publications. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies
tldr.nettime
In another life, I used to be a consultant. This was in the early days of LinkedIn and one of the most annoying parts of the job was "building your personal brand" and "being a thought leader", both measured by LinkedIn posts.
I totally see how LLMs would be a boon for people in roles where this is mandatory.
Via @codinghorror : https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/116721912794000755
Jeff Atwood (@[email protected])
"After hitting a few too many AI-scented tech blogs, “Why are people doing this?!?” popped into my head. First, it was really just a cry of frustration. But then it shifted into a more curious “Why ARE people doing this?” Since I already understand the “write your own words” POV (plus, there are many fantastic articles from this perspective1), I wanted to better understand the other side. Who is using LLMs to generate drafts and why/how are they doing it? To explore, I shared a quick anonymous survey on X, Bluesky, LinkedIn, Mastodon, and a few developer Discord servers. 181 people responded. The sample is relatively small and self-selected, so please consider the results to be a snapshot rather than some sweeping generalization of the entire dev community." https://writethatblog.substack.com/p/report-llms-tech-blogs
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What a great article on the real dangers of AI and how these were already predicted back in 2020. The woman was subsequently dismissed by Google, and after a short while, her former ethics team was disbanded too.
#TimnitGebru #ai #stochasticparrots #stochasticparrot #bias #hallucinations #llm #llms
Was für ein guter Beitrag über reale Gefahren von KI und wie diese 2020 schon vorhersagt wurden. Anschließend wurde die Dame von Google entlassen und mit bisschen Wartezeit auch ihr ehemaliges Ethik Team aufgelöst.
#TimnitGebru #ai #stochasticparrots #stochasticparrot #bias #hallucinations #stochastischePapageien #KIHalluzinationen #ki #llm #Halluzinationen #llms
Pedro J. Hdez"Let me first jump to the claim that’s most painful for me, speaking as a technologist and as an author on the Stochastic Parrots 🦜 paper: No, “Artificial Intelligence” is not a stochastic parrot. Large language models (LLMs) are. And large language models can be extremely useful."
https://medium.com/@margarmitchell/no-ai-is-not-a-stochastic-parrot-a99e57766bed
Bjørn SætrevikI've referred to the prophetic @emilymbender et al. (2021) #StochasticParrots paper several times over the years, but I've never actually read it before. https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3442188.3445922
I was surprised to learn:
1. It's quite approachable from a non-technical stance
2. There is an emoji in the title
3. One of the authors is listed as Shmargaret Shmitchell
Corporations that have drunk the AI kool-aid are going to rot from the inside...
Today I received the e-mail for my mid-year review... with Copilot 🤦
They are having the stochastic parrot "coach" me on my goals and progress.
And they will then rank me based on this.
We so need a union for office workers to push back on this bullshit.
oatmeal#Google fired her for refusing to retract it in 2020. The firing itself proved the point she was making. The people who pay for the system can't afford to hear what's wrong with it. Every warning from Timnit Gebru's "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots" has now come true. At scale. Hallucinations, bias amplification, environmental cost, un-auditable training data, model collapse.
#TimnitGebru #stochasticparrots #aiethics #responsibleai #aicon #aihype
No, it's not an "agent".
It's a poorly written script with non-deterministic results that people are plugging into bank accounts, trading accounts and dog knows what else.
AhimsaThis Emily Bender post has my new favorite acronym:
Frequently Unasked Questions = FUQ!
OK, probably not new, but it was new to me! 😁
https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/stochastic-parrots-frequently-unasked-questions-49c2e7d22d11
"What I am trying to do, in a world absolutely saturated with marketing selling the idea that the synthetic text extruding machines are 'AI', or maybe even 'AGI', is to help people understand what these systems actually are: systems designed to mimic the language … that people use."
