@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.
Tagged: Akkoma
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
@brennacgray Great work! Thanks for sharing.
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.