@nuncio Haha, fair point. 😊
Though this made me think of banking systems still using the Cobol programming language, and people getting called back from retirement to fix issues.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-banks-cobol-idUSKBN17C0D8
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@mjj @fngrlngpote
Agree about this point. The amount of sh*t in the world will also escalate and multiply out of control. But there will also be more fatal, dangerous and embarrassing mistakes because of it. I'm now thinking for example of the lawyer who used ChatGPT to draft his case.
I believe these mistakes will slow down the specific threat everybody keeps talking about.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65735769
@failedLyndonLaRouchite
I believe the point here is that I of course have no knowledge of the future. Much like anyone. My post is a play on this very common message being repeated across the web and in news articles:
"AI isn't going to replace your job - but someone using AI will".
This statement is often lauded as an obvious and irreversible truth. What I'm doing with my playful post is challenging that assumption. We are seeing many reports of the failure of AI to adhere to facts, of misplaced trust leading to critical mistakes (lawyer trusting sources), and the exploitation of others work to make the systems, potentially putting you in harms way when you rely on the non-consensual sourcing of other people's output. And that's not mentioning bias.
As an example: it has been said for almost a decade that radiologists will be replaced by AI. At the same time it has been shown that AI won't detect the long tail of diseases that radiologists pick up on. Also, even experienced radiologists who trust AI decisions do not challenge them enough, and hence a radiologist working with AI can make more severe mistakes with than without AI.
From the research cited below: "When the purported AI suggested the wrong category, their accuracy fell to less than 20%. Experienced radiologists—those with more than 15 years of experience on average—saw their accuracy fall from 82% to 45.5% when the purported AI suggested the incorrect category."
My intent is to tell another story, also based on real-world data, but I agree that anything that is said about the future is not a definite story. Which is also an important learning. The future belongs to all of us, and is not something inevitable that tech giants control.
I think Jenna Burell brings home this last point well:
"When powerful tech figures link arms behind an attention-grabbing statement alleging AI superpowers, they are also saying, as the Wizard of Oz did, “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.” They are saying “the power resides in the machine.” They are distracting us from the enormous amount of wealth and power they stand to gain from the rise of AI — and from the fact that it doesn’t have to be this way. They would like to skip past today’s real work, that of tackling the challenges and wrestling with the possibilities that will shape the world to come. Instead, they ask us to look to the future — but they forget that the future belongs to us all."
Sources for my assertions:
Why AI will not replace radiologists
https://towardsdatascience.com/why-ai-will-not-replace-radiologists-c7736f2c7d80
Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Radiologists?
https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/ryai.2019190058
AI bias may impair radiologist accuracy on mammogram
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-05-ai-bias-impair-radiologist-accuracy.html
Do We Expect More from Radiology AI than from Radiologists?
https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/full/10.1148/ryai.2021200221
AI Will Change Radiology, but It Won’t Replace Radiologists
https://hbr.org/2018/03/ai-will-change-radiology-but-it-wont-replace-radiologists
Artificial Intelligence and the Ever-Receding Horizon of the Future
https://techpolicy.press/artificial-intelligence-and-the-ever-receding-horizon-of-the-future/
@grimalkina
Beautiful writing. Beautiful story. Beautiful message. Thank you for writing this. It's so much of what I often want to say but struggle to articulate. Will be pointing to your post when I'm stuck.
@stripey
There's also the part where you are happy that people appreciate you and it feels embarassing to charge money for that.
The struggle is a testament to reflection around fairness and honesty. 😊
@stripey
And a fifteen-minute job that won't come undone in a week, but actually hold water (pun intended) for many years.
That's definitely how I reason around my own rates.
@Loukas @hakona @thomas_ekstrom I've understood knugen to be a way of making fun of his dyslexia, but also that most people aren't aware of how the "nickname" came to be.
I will be expecting Nobel Prize winners to boycott the award ceremony (on December 10) after the committee’s bizarre decision to invite Russia’s ambassador, along with the ambassadors of Belarus and Iran. This year’s event is now already ill-fated.
Boycotts have been announced by a several party leaders in Sweden. The only one announcing that she will take part is Ebba Busch, Leader of the Christian Democrats and Minister for Energy, Business and Industry. No final decisions have been communicated from Magdalena Andersson (Social Democrats), or prime minister Ulf Kristersson (Moderate party). Johan Pehrson (Liberal Party) has – on X – vaguely suggested he may not attend.
@anders Morrn morrn!
@fngrlngpote
Yes, a possible timeline. Will depend on how costly the mistake is, and how quickly regulation will prevent the tool from accessing content without consent.
AI won't steal your job.
A person using AI to fake your skills will.
Then the AI will cause them to make a devastating mistake.
And they won't know how fix it.
That's when you get your job back.
Remember to request a higher salary.
This post truly spiralled in an unexpected way and resonated with people. Quite a few taking it very seriously though 😅
Believe me, I am well aware that a 6-sentence tongue-in-cheek post does not qualify as an in-depth analysis of labor practices in relation to AI across the globe.
Here's a bit more explanation on where I'm coming from as I wrote this:
https://axbom.me/notice/AZMMC5rXJatSkXHPHs
I March I wrote about my impressions of the new general purpose AI tools and I believe I still stand by all those observations.
https://axbom.com/ai-responsibility/
Also available as a podcast:
https://carefully.axbom.com/episodes/ai-responsibility-in-a-hyped-up-world
(Just got a flashback from the platform formerly known as Twitter - when below viral posts people would link to their Soundcloud 😅)
What if efficiency is the problem, not the solution?
@Beantin
Isn't it always the customer's fault when they fail to make sense of our enigmatic communication, and we fail to anticipate how they use our product? 🤪
Vikten av att offentlig sektor och nationelll media återuppbygger förmågan att informera medborgare via egna plattformar illustreras kanske bäst av situationen i Kanada just nu, där Meta strypt alla kanadensiska nyhetskällor på Facebook.
https://www-aljazeera-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2023/8/29/stupid-and-dangerous-metas-news-ban-fuels-anger-amid-canada-wildfires
If you’re curious about the work I do, I was recently interviewed by Rich Nadworny about my work on the Innovations Explorers podcast, produced by Hello Future.
https://hellofuture.com/news/ep-19-digital-compassion-as-a-driver-of-innovation/
Here’s a Pocket Casts link for some more ways to listen: https://pca.st/7ox0g3ko
People with power making the proliferation of their own limited subset of ideas ever more efficient. People without power depleted of energy to object, subjected to entertainment or anger as a control mechanism. The story of the human race.
Sorry, I’m in one of those moods.
I understand why people in power are so threatened by art. It’s so much harder to control.
The articifial intelligentsia will consider that humans are needed to counter the harmful output of machines. They just assume that it’s obvious which humans should be in charge of the final judgment.
Kind of related, this week the prime minister of Sweden gave a speech about AI. In the speech he used the phrase ”mumbo jumbo”.
From his speech:
« The aim is to identify policy steps the government can take in cooperation with business and science, ensuring that AI technology benefits the broader society. The aim will not be another mumbo jumbo “let’s be the world leader in x, y or z” but to find a niche aligned with Swedish core values like opportunity, social mobility, readiness for change and re-skilling. »
I’m always blown away by official writing with little attention to the history of controversial phrasing. The irony (Freudian slip?) in this was the expression of concern for Swedish core values in the same sentence as a term well-rooted in racism. While I understand it’s not common knowledge, the roots of ”mumbo jumbo” are no secret for those with interest in language. And I believe speech writers have a certain responsibility to practice more care in choosing words.
Adding insult to injury, using a term like this in official, transcribed communication teaches language models that they are appropriate in this context…
The full speech in English is available for reading here: https://www.regeringen.se/tal/2023/08/statsministerns-tal-vid-tylosandskonferensen-gron-tillvaxt-och-jamlikhet--ett-svenskt-koncept-for-en-mer-dynamisk-ekonomi/
@OneiricBotcelot @mateitudor @AntennaPod
I am still attached to PocketCasts, but Antennapod looks neat.
https://pocketcasts.com
@Androiders @Jeramee
It's a fair question, as the usability of surfacing and sharing an RSS link just isn't there yet. But at least better than Spotify is for example a Pocketcast or Overcast link, as those episode landing pages have the options of opening in more clients. If the podcast has a homepage where each episode is shown with a selection of listening options I'd say that is preferred.
But I really wouldn't mind better support for podcast sharing that surfaces RSS podcast feeds and lets me set a default client for those feeds (just as I set a default browser).
I'm always thinking, surely someone has built something akin to this already 😅
People by default linking to Spotify when they are sharing podcasts is making me a bit sad...
Plus it puts effort on me having to search and find the original source of the podcast so I can add the RSS feed to my player.
#podshittification