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Geoffrey Hinton winning a Nobel prize was not great for educating on the real risks of machine learning.

Commentators on tv and radio here in Sweden are now on and off continuously about AI having to be reigned in because it’s getting smarter than us.

Anyway, today is the Nobel Day.

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10 Dec 2024, 19:26
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I subscribe to an image bank because I want to support creators. Now even the image banks are pushing ”AI” for just about everything. 😩

Recommendations for ethical image banks that have creator/artist/photographer wellbeing in mind are welcome.

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10 Dec 2024, 19:20
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Prof. Brysons response (to the UN's AI Advisory Body's open consultation for their Interim Report) is compulsory reading.

«Portions of this report – and of AI policy discourse more broadly – use the term “AI” as if it described some sort of unitary actor – a special new thing like a monster from space that needs to be managed by a world drawn together. This is wrong.»

https://per.ax/jbunai

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10 Dec 2024, 19:16
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The book I’ll be reading over the holidays.

@axbom.com: Published posthumously, Cyberlibertarianism ’traces how digital evangelism has driven the shift toward the political right, concealing inequality, xenophobia, dishonesty, and massive corporate concentrations of wealth and power beneath the utopian presumption of digital as an inherent social good’.

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10 Dec 2024, 08:15
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Published posthumously, Cyberlibertarianism ’traces how digital evangelism has driven the shift toward the political right, concealing inequality, xenophobia, dishonesty, and massive corporate concentrations of wealth and power beneath the utopian presumption of digital as an inherent social good’.

Book cover: Cyberlibertarianism – The RIght-Wing Politics of Digital Technology by David Golumbia. Foreword by George Justice.

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10 Dec 2024, 08:13
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Legend.

This also aligns with my principle to always, yes always, dilute your data.

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10 Dec 2024, 06:58
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Tjugo år av föreläsningar ligger uppe nu. 😊

På min Speakerdeck-sida finns nu 68 bildspel från föreläsningar jag hållt hela vägen tillbaka till september 2004.

Det handlar om allt från användbarhet och tillgänglighet till web 2.0, ”AI”, etik och mänskliga rättigheter. På både svenska och engelska.

Genom åren har många undrat över varför jag delar med mig av så mycket material helt öppet och kostnadsfritt. Förmodligen för att det händer magiska grejer när jag gör det.

Människor hör av sig, jag lär känna likasinnade och jag får återkoppling som gör att jag kan förbättra innehåll och själv utvecklas. Ibland får jag höra att man har nytta av mitt material, och kanske använt sig av det i utbildningssammanhang. Det gör mig superglad.

Så om du är nyfiken är det bara att titta in. Äldre föreläsningar blir ju mer som kuriosa… ungefär: vad fasen var det vi pratade om på den tiden när det gäller internet. Jag kan definitivt också se trender i mitt eget sätt att tänka, och stora förändringar i mitt bildspråk över tid.

Och nej, du behöver varken lämna e-post, skicka dm eller kommentera för åtkomst. Behåll din data för dig själv. 😉 Materialet är bara ett klick bort, och alla presentationer går att ladda ner i PDF-format:

https://speakerdeck.com/axbom

p.s. Det finns nog fler presentationer att leta fram, och jag laddar upp allt eftersom jag hittar dem.

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8 Dec 2024, 21:14
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Couldn’t agree more. And an astounding example here also of Newton responding reflexively without reading.

@liedra.net: As a subscriber to @caseynewton.bsky.social’s newsletter and an AI critic/sceptic, I’m actually really cranky about the way Casey portrayed @garymarcus.bsky.social and the field that rightfully questions the hype, legitimacy and real world impact of LLM systems. It was a classic straw man fallacy.

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7 Dec 2024, 10:15
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↩ Replying to @liedra.net

At first the entire piece felt fake, but then seeing Newton double-down like this and responding without reading, and failing to give examples of people who argue the way he posits, is just all very unsettling.

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7 Dec 2024, 10:12
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More and more tech giants controlling our everyday lives but not making any profits eventually has you realising that profits are not the motive. The control is the point. Money is made elsewhere, kept away from us, while keeping us all docile.

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7 Dec 2024, 09:23
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Det här är så underbart och välförtjänt att jag sitter och gråter. 😭❤️💜💙💚

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7 Dec 2024, 09:10
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↩ Replying to @loukas.bsky.social

I very much agree, but just the idea of this going on also makes me feel nauseous…

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6 Dec 2024, 22:08
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↩ Replying to @loukas.bsky.social

Right? Like he reveals tomorrow it was an experiment.

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6 Dec 2024, 22:01
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Finally read that Newton piece after everyone else. I mean, it's so bad it feels computer-generated. Bizarre, really.

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6 Dec 2024, 21:57
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↩ Replying to @dinkompismia.bsky.social

När man ser film känns det ibland som att det är overkligt när allt ska klaras i sista sekunden, men verkligheten är fan rätt ofta i paritet. Galet bra bedömt och agerat. Hatten av.

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6 Dec 2024, 08:41
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↩ Replying to @emmamarieandersson.se

Förstår precis, och håller med.

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5 Dec 2024, 22:23
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↩ Replying to @emmamarieandersson.se

Det där fotografiet kommer man inte över... 💔

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5 Dec 2024, 21:50
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↩ Replying to @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social

Sounds great! 🙌

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2 Dec 2024, 23:56
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Really excited to be visiting Manchester and Camp Digital again! The glorious Nexer Digital folks make this whole event an absolute delight.

Give me a heads up if I'll see you there. 👋🥰

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2 Dec 2024, 18:56
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↩ Replying to @protestcheese.bsky.social

"Look at our bounce rate! It’s so low!” 😁

(achieved by always having a landing page that you must click away from to even understand where you are)

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2 Dec 2024, 14:20
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