Upol EhsanNov 21, 2023

No how matter how the AI saga ends, the status quo will remain the same-- power will still be in the hands of the few.

Responsible AI cannot be achieved unless we opt for responsible governance of such powerful technologies-- and it starts with address the power imbalances.

Show threadFlorian 'floe' EchtlerNov 21, 2023

@upol a serious question (and I know, I'm kinda looking at tech solutions for soc problems again, but still curious):

has there been any research into distributed training of very large CNNs? Something like Mastodon, but for AI training? I feel like this _could_ be an alternative to the power concentration you mentioned.

Show threadAmir RahnamaNov 21, 2023
@floe @upol Yeah many works but it didn’t really take off.
Show threadFlorian 'floe' Echtler
@amirrahnama @upol would you have any pointers? It did work for Folding@Home, for example...
Nov 21, 2023 at 10:40amWeb
Show threadAmir RahnamaNov 21, 2023
@floe @upol studies like this never became widespread: https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2020/file/a1d4c20b182ad7137ab3606f0e3fc8a4-Paper.pdf
Show threadUpol EhsanNov 21, 2023
@amirrahnama @floe similar to challenges of Mastodon (e.g., Masto is mostly Global North, mostly W.E.I.R.D), despite tech decentralization, resource gaps create disparities. That being said, the tech decentralization could be one piece of the larger puzzle. The problems are sociotechnical; so must the solutions be.