@brennacgray Great work! Thanks for sharing.
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Happy to share that UX Magazine just published my poster/article comparing a hammer to AI. After 25 years in the UX space, it was my focus on ethics and human rights that caught their eye 😁
https://uxmag.com/articles/if-a-hammer-was-like-ai
#AiEthics #DigitalEthics
I'm sure this has been asked many times, but how are people password protecting their @owncast streams?
Was about to use it for some students following from home but I don't want to make the stream public.
One way I suppose is to embed the stream in a password-protected page, but that still means the stream is public for those who figure out the stream url...
Edit: I'm using Owncast with a @cloudron setup.
#Owncast #Streaming
@mjj @interfluidity @signalapp
I really need to do a writeup on this, but aware of the hurdles with Signal I can also recommend Whereby, which I have been using for client meetings many years now. It's Norwegian.
https://whereby.com/information/meetings
@samuel
Actually THE Browser Company 😀
https://thebrowser.company/
I reacted to their latest newsletter.
If your primary source for announcing upcoming features and behind-the-scenes content is an X-Twitter account, and not an RSS feed you own, you're doing it wrong.
Note that this does not mean you can not also use your account(s) of choice as secondary channels for communication efforts.
If you are a browser company claiming to inspirit what the internet can be, I'll be expecting more.
Just my thought of the day.
@mjj It's an interesting point. The way it works Signal doesn't store any information about its users nor any chats... they're all on the user's device. As long as one trusts this, it doesn't matter if a government can request data, Signal doesn't have it.
I'm not as sympathetic to teachers worrying about AI-written assignments as I am to students worrying that their teachers won't be able to help them develop a capacity for AI appraisal.
"Oh yeah, I really love this website!"
Humans are fascinating when it comes to language. For example, the above statement can be expressed, using voice (and to an extent also body language and context) so that the person hearing the statement clearly understands that the person behind the statement actually means the polar opposite.
Now imagine using a language model to transcribe and provide a summary of an interview. Imagine how many human nuances will get lost. And how many faulty ideas may be invented and adopted because people believe a language model is "smart", even when its output is untruthful or random.
No, I would never use a language model in UX work. I could never assume and feel certain that I am able to find and correct all the mistakes made by a machine.
#languagemodel #AIHype
@Loukas
Friend of a friend of the publisher? 😉
Do you find it surprising that this is published in Time?
Judy Estrin is on fire in her op-ed for Time Magazine.
“What is happening is not just a battle for market control. A small number of tech titans are busy designing our collective future, presenting their societal vision, and specific beliefs about our humanity, as theonly possible path. Hiding behind an illusion of natural market forces, they are harnessing their wealth and influence to shape not just productization and implementation of AI technology, but also the research.“
She goes on to talk about the politics of inevitability and how we are tricked into thinking the future dictated by big tech is unavoidable. (Pro tip: it isn’t)
But this sentence actually caught me off-guard: “On the current trajectory we may not even have the option to weigh in on who gets to decide what is in our best interest.“
Do read it.
https://time.com/6302761/ai-risks-autonomy/
#DigitalEthics
From my talk on AI and Human Rights in January of 2022…
A tiny, tiny proportion of humanity (3 million AI engineers is 0.0004% of the world's population) has the knowledge and power to build machines that are "intelligent" enough to potentially decide who gets a job, who can obtain financial aid, who the courts trust, or whose DNA and biometric data will be harvested by marketers.
We have a technology in the hands of a few, born in societies of abundance, and powerful enough to shape the outcome of lives across the planet.
This asymmetry of knowledge and power is a core challenge for human rights. An algorithm that is oppressive, racist, bigoted, misogynous and unfair can be all those things more efficiently than any human.
All while maintaining an aura of "neutrality" and superior smartness.
We are creating a more efficient version of the past instead of reimagining the future we want.
There is something to be said for human inefficiency, the ability to pause and reflect, taking time to question and taking time to listen. Do we want to allow AI to erase the language, alphabets, culture and stories of poorer countries?
We need to figure out together what a more equal and peaceful world means. Only after that we discuss how AI can help us achieve the positive technical and ethical outcomes that will lead to that future.
Instead of shipping AI across the world we could be engaging in inclusive, pluriversal conversation about what that world should look like. What we keep and what we remove. Whose voices matter.
I believe in AI. I believe in its enormous power to assist understanding. I am not interested in stopping progress. I am urging all of us to to reconsider how progress is defined, and how it is distributed.
Video, slidedeck and transcript:
https://axbom.com/aihr/
@AnnemarieBridy
Absolutely, and it’s positive that they strive for more.
For me the dilemma starts before the LLMs, as the amount of content available online for training large language models in different languages is quite unbalanced, as the article suggests. Hence their performance will differ significantly depending on language. It’s a bias built into the fabric of the internet (and hence the training data) rather than an inherent problem of language models.
We often forget that there are more than 6,000 languages in the world. I take every opportunity to remind myself of this. 😊
Innovation ≠ Progress
Some innovation will improve lives.
Some innovation will worsen lives.
Some innovation will help one group of people while creating struggles for other groups.
Striving to increase innovation does not guarantee a net increase in wellbeing.
Progress requires a moral stance that continuously considers and is explicit about how the impact of an action helps someone without harming someone else.
And here is the twist:
Progress does not even need innovation.
The primary ingredient of progress is something we all already carry with us.
It's kindness.
And if you find yourself on a path where kindness is missing, the path doesn't define you. You can forgive yourself and choose another path.
This is saying: You must first be kind to yourself.
Helping others forgive themselves.
Helping others towards paths where they are equipped to practice kindness.
Now that's innovation.
None of this is easy. None of this is a straight line. But sometimes just a simple reminder.
A reminder in the right moment.
Can trigger progress.
"Our data shows that a little more than half the sites on the web use English as their primary language. That’s a lot more than one might expect, given that native English speakers only make up just under 5% of the global population."
"Millions of non-native English speakers and non-English speakers are stuck using the web in a language other than the one they were born into. And since publicly available text on the internet is now often being used to train large language models like Bard and GPT-4, it suggests we’re already building the same imbalance into technology’s next frontier: artificial intelligence."
https://restofworld.org/2023/internet-most-used-languages/
#DigitalEthics
At a café working on my Macbook and have my iPad set up to the right of my computer. I knew I could use it as an extension of my desktop, but I actually had no idea I can just pull the cursor over and control everything on my iPad from my laptop. Wild.
And did the computer somehow figure out that my iPad is on the right by itself? I don't remember ever telling it...
First day back from vacation and I'm feeling like a complete novice. 😅