Mastodawn

@benroyce Can I ask where the video is from? Trying to find the source with little success(
Shareable link would be perfect <3

Alex 6d ago

Cyberlyra 6d ago

Ten years ago, Cambridge Analytica used data from Facebook games to tweak UK and US voters and torque world geopolitics.

Today we find out that the company behind Pokémon Go used all your data finding Pikachus to teach autonomous robots how to navigate and take away your jobs.

https://www.popsci.com/technology/pokemon-go-delivery-robots-crowdsourcing/

‘Pokémon Go’ players have been unknowingly training delivery robots

The massive crowdsourcing effort could use real-world to help robots deliver pizza.

Popular Science

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Alex Mar 2

@0xabad1dea Sooo.. you had a calendar synchronization anomaly due to internal firmware instability? xD

Alex Feb 28

Merry Christmas Feb 28

Pay attention.

Alex Feb 23

Sasha

Feb 23

"Resilience" is a coping strategy, not a virtue. Celebrating resilience without interrogating the challenges, problems, and structural issues folks are routinely forced to confront runs the risk of idealizing the capacity to suffer.
EDIT: the author of the quote is Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly.

Alex Feb 11

tante Feb 11

"AI is built on the collective knowledge of humankind."

No. Nononononono. It is not built on _knowledge_, it it built on _data_. And not everyone's experiences are available as data, many communities are excluded. Also: "Collective" implies some sort of collaboration and shared activity. But "AI" is just accumulation by a few powerful.

So No. It's not collective but extractive, not knowledge but data, not humankind but the hegemonic western view. Everything in that statement is wrong.

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Alex Feb 10

@_elena trying to get away from discord and thought to drag a few instances with me - where can I point them to? Cant find any federated alternatives to discord out there(
Something like Mattermost but federated, ideally, so transition is smoother and possibly even considered))

Alex Feb 10

I am trying to disentangle myself from #discord following their #faceid and contacting instance owners with suggestions to move their communities elsewhere or at least crosspost their updates.
What are some #fediverse #discordalternatives that have a more forum vibe and can replace discord functionality better than generic mastodon instance?

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Alex Feb 9

@patrick_townsend Awesome! I would love to do something similar around in my community as well!
Could you share your presentation? I struggle with being layman-y and non-techy, and go into deep-dive analytical at the drop of a hat(

Alex Feb 7

Oli Feb 7

A surge in new datacenters, each with the power demand of 100,000 households and a cooling water demand of 1,000,000 m³ per year to train AI models on material obtained without consent on hardware now unaffordable to consumers so fascism-adjacent tech billionaires can sell us the idea that any skill is now worthless and in doing so creating the largest economic bubble ever while simultaneously destroying society and environment.

I think that about sums it up.

#genai #llm