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Subho Majumdar, PhD Dec 5, 2022

Julie Goldberg Dec 4, 2022

“Effective Altruism Is Pushing a Dangerous Brand of ‘AI Safety’” | WIRED

I’m just a simple country librarian, not a #TechBillionaireGod, so what do I know, but I think a truly effective form of #altruism would be to ensure that every child on this planet has proper nutrition, clean water, healthcare, housing, and free education to at least age 18.
#AI #EffectiveAltruism

https://www.wired.com/story/effective-altruism-artificial-intelligence-sam-bankman-fried/

Effective Altruism Is Pushing a Dangerous Brand of ‘AI Safety’

This philosophy—supported by tech figures like Sam Bankman-Fried—fuels the AI research agenda, creating a harmful system in the name of saving humanity

WIRED

Subho Majumdar, PhD Dec 5, 2022

TIL you can follow hashtags in mastodon. My timeline's so much better already.

Subho Majumdar, PhD Dec 5, 2022

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Sherrilyn Ifill Dec 4, 2022

@bjornrust @timnitGebru Timnit’s piece in Wired is superb. I don’t know how much louder she can ring the alarm bell. And whether we are at all equipped to marshal an effective fight.

Subho Majumdar, PhD Dec 2, 2022

Michael Colaresi Dec 1, 2022

Some of the ChatGPT examples are downright dumb+just clear plagiarism (eg Matplotlib, tex tutorials). I have yet to see anything that is interesting. Perhaps it is all more impressive if you don’t think about the billions of hours of free labor that went into its training data. While Google has muddied the water recently, it still mostly connects eyeballs to human-created sources (where there is attribution). ChatGPT launders billions of hours of human creation and thought into a big sili-con

Subho Majumdar, PhD Nov 30, 2022

Eva Nov 29, 2022

I can't believe I even have to say this, but please do not grant the San Francisco police department the power to kill people using armed robots: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/11/red-alert-sfpd-want-power-kill-robots

Red Alert: The SFPD Want the Power to Kill with Robots

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will vote soon on a policy that would allow the San Francisco Police Department to use deadly force by arming its many robots. This is a spectacularly dangerous idea and EFF’s stance is clear: police should not arm robots.TAKE ACTIONEMAIL YOUR SUPERVISOR: don'...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Subho Majumdar, PhD Nov 30, 2022

RT @[email protected]

UF is hosting a workshop on Modern Computational Statistics on Jan 13-14, 2023! (https://tinyurl.com/y3neptmr)

Junior researchers are eligible for travel awards if they submit a poster abstract by Dec 20. Submit abstracts and register here (https://tinyurl.com/UFWW2023)

Visit FL in Jan!

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/aaron_molstad/status/1597621309743431680

Statistics Annual Winter Workshop 2023 - Informatics Institute

The University of Florida Department of Statistic’s Annual Winter Workshop will take place on January 13-14, 2023 (Friday-Saturday). The workshop will be Hybrid with both in-person attendance in the J.... Read More

Informatics Institute

Subho Majumdar, PhD Nov 25, 2022

RT @[email protected]

Today we’re excited to announce the release of OpenELM, an open-source library combining LLMs with evolutionary algorithms for code synthesis. https://github.com/CarperAI/ELM

Thanks to @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], et al (1/4)

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/carperai/status/1596187248797847554

GitHub - CarperAI/OpenELM: Evolution Through Large Models

Evolution Through Large Models. Contribute to CarperAI/OpenELM development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Subho Majumdar, PhD Nov 21, 2022

Sarah T. Roberts, Ph.D.Nov 21, 2022

Excellent piece from @nberlat, who has hit the nail on the head about the dangers of this man and others like him to regular working people. Aka LITERALLY EVERYONE ELSE. I laugh so as not to cry at the stans who think they’d be hardcore enough to work for Melon. Melon does not give a fuck about you, bro. He fired all the stans at Bird, too. They were shocked — shocked, I tell you — that he didn’t give fuck one about their personal ideology. Workers are widgets.

Subho Majumdar, PhD Nov 18, 2022

Christoph Molnar Nov 18, 2022

What is machine learning?

❌ Wrong:

Intelligent computer

✅ Right:

A lazy, maliciously-compliant, narrow-minded genie

Whatever you want the machine to do, specify it correctly, narrow the task, and ensure there's no unintended shortcut available for the ML algorithm.

Subho Majumdar, PhD Nov 18, 2022

Mary Wolf Nov 18, 2022

Tonight's 🏆 award goes to @briannawu