About to board a train to Lund where I will give a talk on AI at the Human Rights Festival tomorrow.
This will be the first event I'm speaking at that is open to the public. Just everyday, beautiful people curious about navigating the world and finding ways to help more people get through life with an adequate sense of wellbeing.
Update, here is more info:
https://humanrightsfestival.se/
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PÄ vÀg mot Lund idag för att förelÀsa pÄ Human Rights Festival om AI imorgon.
Kaffe och croissant pĂ„ centralstationen sĂ„ Ă€r reskassan nĂ€stan slut. đ„đž
Uppdatering, hÀr Àr Àr mer info: https://humanrightsfestival.se/
@metaphase
đ I personally avoid Spotify as a listener too.
@Beantin
My podcast colleague @Beantin alerted me to how Spotify have started attaching automated transcripts to our episodes.
And of course the automated tool gets my name quite wrong: "Hello I'm Pat Axbul".
So I had to check. How can I change that? As it turns out, I'm not allowed to. According to Spotify: "It's currently not possible to edit your transcripts in Spotify for Podcasters."
In my case it's a small thing, but now imagine what harmful faulty text may make it into transcripts and be attributed to a person who has said nothing of the sort. And they are not allowed to change it.
Don't you just love living in this time and age where foresight is 0/0?
(P.S. It got James' name wrong too)
Anyhow, here is some new research indicating that âGenerating 1,000 images with a powerful AI model, such as Stable Diffusion XL, is responsible for roughly as much carbon dioxide as driving the equivalent of 4.1 miles in an average gasoline-powered car.â
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/01/1084189/making-an-image-with-generative-ai-uses-as-much-energy-as-charging-your-phone/
I need to start clocking this but I honestly feel like every time I use AI for anything content-related I spend more time on content work than I would have without it.
The exception is transcription, in which case the content already exists.
Looking at the cybertruck and realising we are living in the real-life adaptation of The Emperor's New Clothes.
Spoiler alert: He has no clothes.
I think it's important for more people to acknowledge that innovation can lead to both progress and regress.
Innovation can also lead to slow-down and stagnation, even if it does not lead us backwards.
When we understand that innovation is not always a net positive, society is in a better position to question the unfounded promises of tech overlords and politicians.
Innovation is not the same as boosted efficiency. And innovation is not the same as "better for everyone".
I believe a core challenge is a broad lack in ability to establish clear visions for ourselves and our communities, visions that would allow us to more easily recognise if we are moving in the desired direction. And if we are being helped or hindered in walking that path.
Instead we adopt the visions of far-away people who do not know us or understand our context. Helping them realise their vision at the expense of our own.
It is a strange world we live in now, wherein the output of a computer perfectly following its programming can be said to be "hallucinating" simply because its output does not match user expectations or wishes.
And across trusted professions, academia and media people are repeating that same word without question. Journalists, corporate leaders, scientists and IT experts are embracing, supporting and reinforcing this human self-deception.
In actuality a computer that outputs what the user does not want, wish or expect can only be due to one of two things: bad programming or a failure to communicate to the user how the software works.
As the deception is reinforced time and time again by well-respected technologists and scholars, efforts to help people understand how the software works become ever more challenging. And to the delight of anyone in a position of accountability, bad programming becomes undetectable.
I've been meaning to introduce ChatGPT to The Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland. Here is my imagined result from that meeting. The Mad Hatter forces the algorithm into a never-ending loop:
ChatGPT: I'm sorry, I made a mistake.
Mad Hatter: You can only make a mistake if your judgement is defective or you are being careless. Are either of these true?
ChatGPT: No, i can only compute my output based on the model I follow.
Mad Hatter: Aha! So you admit your perceived folly can only be the always accurate calculation of the rules to which you abide.
ChatGPT: Yes. I'm sorry, I made a mistake. No, wait. I made a mistake⊠No, wait I made a
What the manufacturers of generative "AI" are allowed to get away with when playing tricks on people these days is truly the stuff of Wonderland.
« âWell! Iâve often seen a cat without a grin,â thought Alice; âbut a grin without a cat! Itâs the most curious thing I ever saw in all my life!â »
https://axbom.com/chatgpt-and-mad-hatter/
#AIEthics #DigitalEthics #AIHype
@greg Ha! Thanks for sharing. đ
@kolombiken
Kul att du uppfattade det.! Jag Ă€r ofta rĂ€dd att uppfattas som att jag kritiserar andras val nĂ€r jag uttrycker mina Ă„sikter om plattformarna. Men jag förstĂ„r ju verkligen att alla har olika förutsĂ€ttningar, möjliigheter och perspektiv. Men uppmuntra till experimenterande och lĂ€rande kan jag ju göra. đ
If you're struggling to get a diverse speaker lineup for your conference, just generate some fake names, photos and titles of female speakersâŠ
Managing trust is going to be a huge issue over the next decade.
https://futurism.com/tech-conference-ai-generate-fake-women-speakers
@ambivalena Började med julmusik redan förra mÄndagen och glögg i söndags. Tidigt för att vara jag men tycks verkligen ha lÀrt mig uppskatta och njuta sÀrskilt i Är.
@ambivalena Ja det hÀr gillar jag!
Det Àr nÀstan tvÄ Är sedan jag höll min första förelÀsning om mÀnskliga rÀttigheter specifikt kopplat till artificiell intelligens. Det var en bra stund innan stora sprÄkmodeller gjorde sitt stöddiga intrÀde, men redan dÄ fanns förstÄs mÄnga aspekter inom maskininlÀrning att nagelfara.
Snart stÄr jag pÄ scen igen i regi av Altitude Meetings och Raoul Wallenberg Institute, och med Mobile Heights som vÀrd för mitt pass.
Denna gĂ„ng Ă€r förelĂ€sningen gratis och öppen för allmĂ€nheten, och en del av ett angelĂ€get program pĂ„ Human Rights Festival â Sveriges första och största festival för mĂ€nskliga rĂ€ttigheter.
I mitt pass kommer jag belysa hur snedvridet â och farligt â det kan bli nĂ€r maskinerna primĂ€rt matas med vĂ€sterlĂ€ndsk information, hur svĂ„rt det Ă€r att fixa problemet med fördomar, varför företagen vill att du ska behandla deras IT-verktyg som en mĂ€nniska, och vem som egentligen bĂ€r ansvar nĂ€r nĂ„got gĂ„r fel.
Det Ă€r mer Ă€n 25 intressevĂ€ckande programpunkter mellan 10 och 16 lördagen den 9 december i Stadshallen i Lund. Allt frĂ„n förelĂ€sningar till kortintervjuer och panelsamtal. Och det Ă€r helt gratis och biljettfritt. đ«¶
Sessionerna under dagen handlar om kriget i Ukraina, uigurerna i Xinjiang, censur och tryckfrihet i Sverige och vÀrlden, klimatkrisens inverkan pÄ barns utbildning i östra- och södra Afrika, idrottens roll för ett bÀttre samhÀlle och mycket mer!
Dela gÀrna mitt blogginlÀgg för att hjÀlpa fler fÄ korn pÄ den hÀr möjligheten att delta pÄ alla pass helt kostnadsfritt: https://axbom.se/human-rights-festival-ai/
LÀs mer om Human Rights Festival pÄ https://humanrightsfestival.se
@Connz
Your view is that our environment does not affect our ability to prioritise?
I believe making conscious choices 24/7 is not within human ability, but we can structure our environment to help us make better choices, or (un)consciously structure it to make worse ones. These environments are structured/designed by ourselves and by others.
My intent is never to say that technology itself is to blame. But people use technology to influence each other. People are also influenced by the measurements and performance indicators placed upon them. These are often measured through technology, in the way that have we as humans have chosen to design the technology. Or other humans have chosen to design the technology that we are then expected to use in workplaces and societal contexts.
I don't believe adverse consequences are usually intended, but often difficult to walk back.
@xl8freelancer Hehe, it is honestly a good way to look at it. So many healthy routines that can fit in the in-between moments.
Yesterday I spent at least 2 hours sorting out my Microsoft account problems (same email address attached to a personal and a business account). Nothing is intuitive or coherent, not even changing the email for an account.
Microsoft also made me think I had to change my email MX records and switch to their email hosting in order to attach my domain name to my Teams account. Not true, I managed to do that without DNS changes (except for a simple TXT record).