#aisalami — Public Fediverse posts

> The median split of AI wisdom is this: either you understand that current neural networks struggle mightily with outliers (just as their 1990s predecessors did) – and therefore understand why current AI is doomed to fail on many of its most lavish promises – or you don’t.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/06/ai-llms
#GaryMarcus #AIsLLMs #AISalami
/HT Tinmit Gebru @ dair-community

Icarus: The #FutureOfScience , the book is on-line.
> #icarus having been taught to fly by his father Daedalus, was destroyed by his rashness. I fear that the same fate may overtake the populations whom modern men of science have taught to fly. Some of the dangers inherent in the #ProgressOfCcience while we retain our present political and #EconomicInstitutions are set forth in the following pages.
https://archive.org/details/icarusorfutureof00russ
Same but different with #LLM #AISalami #GenerativeAI #CyberneticAI ?

> Simulative AI reproduces human skills, while cybernetic AI embeds them..
> .. In #SimulativeAI, intelligence manifests in a relation of comparison or resemblance of skills across external boundaries of humans and machines. In #CyberneticAI, intelligence is an emergent and distributed capacity of the hybrid human-machine assemblages as a whole.. power relations that make the human a functional part of that machine.
#RainerMühlhoff
/HT @RainerMuehlhoff via I can't remember, sorry!
#AiSALAMI

I wonder if #SmartAgriculture is an appropriate name for

> ...a rising area bringing the benefits of digitalization through big data, artificial intelligence and linked data into the agricultural domain.

#AI #AISalami is doing so well in other areas why not ram it into food production... I wonder what #LangdonWinner has to say about this...

> “Most people are not aware of the resource usage underlying ChatGPT,” Ren said. “If you’re not aware of the resource usage, then there’s no way that we can help conserve the resources.”
> Google reported a 20% growth in water use in the same period, which Ren also largely attributes to its AI work.

https://fortune.com/2023/09/09/ai-chatgpt-usage-fuels-spike-in-microsoft-water-consumption/

#ChatGPT #AISalami #WaterWaste #WaterConsumption #GoogleWater #MSWater #BlueGold #FlowForLoveOfWater #MaudeBarlowe

> Since 1945 we have known that nuclear technology could generate cheap energy for the benefit of humans—but could also physically destroy human civilisation.

The article seems stupid, but part of it motivated me to see if Amitav Ghosh wrote about AI(Salami)
> We have always appreciated the power of stories...

#YuvalNoahHarari is like a recent #AlvinToffler stringing together cliches that seem smart?
#NuclearTechnoloty #Nukes #NuclearWeapons #NuclearEnergy #AISalami #Salami

> The suits alleges, among other things, that OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s LLaMA were trained on illegally-acquired datasets containing their works, which they say were acquired from “shadow library” websites like Bibliotik, Library Genesis, Z-Library, and others, noting the books are “available in bulk via torrent systems.”
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/9/23788741/sarah-silverman-openai-meta-chatgpt-llama-copyright-infringement-chatbots-artificial-intelligence-ai
/HT #MoveToAmend
#ChatGPT #OPenAI #AIorSalami #AISalami #SarahSilverman #Meta #LLaMa

.> Timnit Gebru, founder of the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR), described the use of AI in debt collection as "punishing those who are already struggling."
.> "In a time when income inequality is off the charts, when we should be reducing things like student debt, are we really trying to build tools to put even more pressures on those who are struggling? This would be true even if the software was working as intended," Gebru said.
.> "In addition to this, we know that there are so many biases that these LLM based systems have, encoding hegemonic and stereotypical views,” Gebru added, referring to the findings of the paper on large AI models that she co-authored with several other researchers. “The fact that we don't even know what they're doing and they're not required to tell us is also incredibly concerning."
.> Some of the companies that stand to benefit most from AI integration are those that purely exist to collect debt. These companies, known as debt buyers, purchase “distressed” debt from other creditors at steep discounts—usually pennies on the dollar—then try as hard as they can to get debtors to repay in full. They don’t issue loans, or provide any kind of service that clients might owe them for; it’s a business model built on profiting from people who fell behind on payments to someone else.

... think about the purpose the utopian hallucinations about AI are serving. What work are these benevolent stories doing in the culture as we encounter these strange new tools? Here is one hypothesis: they are the powerful and enticing cover stories for what may turn out to be the largest and most consequential theft in human history. Because what we are witnessing is the wealthiest companies in history ( #Microsoft, #Apple, #Google, #Meta, #Amazon …) unilaterally seizing the sum total of human knowledge that exists in digital, scrapable form and walling it off inside proprietary products, many of which will take direct aim at the humans whose lifetime of labor trained the machines without giving permission or consent.
This should not be legal...

> .. insurers are using unregulated predictive algorithms, under the guise of scientific rigor, to pinpoint the precise moment when they can plausibly cut off payment for an older patient’s treatment. The denials that follow are setting off heated disputes between doctors and insurers, often delaying treatment of seriously ill patients who are neither aware of the algorithms, nor able to question their calculations.
https://www.statnews.com/2023/03/13/medicare-advantage-plans-denial-artificial-intelligence/
#AISalami #AgenticShift #MedicareAdvantage #Medicare

In 2012, Noam Chomsky mentioned a Lisp-language guy, #PatWinston. Winston said that, in the AI^1 field, people were directed away from "original questions." That sent me to #Chomsky's #PowersAndProspects(1996). _Prospects_ reminded me of Alex Carey's _Taking the Risk Out of Democracy_ and I now see #Mayo's #HawthorneStudies as 1927-1932 #PHacking. #GeorgeEltonMayo! in textbooks.
^1 AI, short for SALAMI: Systematic Approaches to Learning Algorithms and Machine Inferences #AISalami

> .. heated debate.. in.. cognitive sciences, artificial intelligence, and philosophy of mind, but it is hard to see that any serious question has been posed.. the #TuringTest is reminiscent of the #Cartesian approach to.. minds. But the comparison is misleading..Jacques de #Vaucanson, the great artificer of the period, was concerned to understand the animate systems he was modelling.. in order to formulate and validate theories.. not to satisfy some performance criterion.
#AISalami