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CL Stimmel, PhD 
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Interdisciplinary PhD science, technology, and society. Author and uni teaching prof for integrative and #globalstudies. Research focuses on entanglements of policy, eugenics, and technology. #technoscientific #imaginaries #sts #histodons #AI #algorithmicjustice #histSTM #ethics
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Martin Holland#Chatbots sometimes make things up. Not everyone thinks #AI #hallucination problem is fixable | #APNews
Spend enough time with #ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence chatbots and it doesn’t take long for them to spout falsehoods.
"“This isn’t fixable,” said @emilymbender, a #linguistics professor and director of the University of Washington’s Computational Linguistics Laboratory. “It’s inherent in the mismatch between the #technology and the proposed use cases.”"
Chatbots sometimes make things up. Not everyone thinks AI hallucination problem is fixable
Spend enough time with ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence chatbots and it doesn’t take long for them to spout falsehoods. Described as hallucination, confabulation or just plain making things up, it’s now a problem for every business, organization and high school student trying to get a “generative AI” system to compose documents and get work done. Builders of AI systems known as large language models say they're working to make them more truthful. But some experts say the problem isn't fixable. The say there's a mismatch between the technology's capabilities and how people want to use it.
“Late last year, Musk restricted the use of Starlink on the battlefields, leaving Ukrainian troops without the ability to communicate in a way that suggests he was conducting his own foreign and military policy that conflicted with that of the United States.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/july-31-2023?r=nf36&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/july-31-2023?r=nf36&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
July 31, 2023
At Ukraine’s request, Saudi Arabia will host peace talks with up to 30 countries next month about negotiating an end to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The meetings will include the United Kingdom, Poland, and the European Union, as well as the United States. Brazil, India and South Africa—all three members of BRICS, the economic group made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—will attend, but Russia is not invited. Laurence Norman and Stephen Kalin of the
the best new word in my vocabulary is “enshittification” — 1 t or 2 ?
Simon WillisonRandom thought concerning personal AI ethics: it's rude to publish something that would take someone longer to read than it took you to write it
I have spent enough time on threads to understand how it might work for me. You know, it’s nice to see old friends wandering about, but it seems the place to learn, stay up-to-date, and contribute is on Mastodon. Here.
John McQuaidThe combination of hardware and software in Tesla vehicles, per @pluralistic, is a kind of smeared technological system in which corporate ownership rights (using DRM) are extended much further into the operations of the physical vehicle, and removed from the hands of its nominal owners, than ever before – in order to extract rents, feudal-style. Meet the new boss, same as the (very) old boss