Episode 143: A Pause on AI?
04/11/23 • 44 min
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman discuss an open letter to pause AI development.
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- Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter - Future of Life Institute
- Elon Musk and others urge AI pause, citing 'risks to society' | Reuters — Elon Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives are calling for a six-month pause in developing systems more powerful than OpenAI's newly launched GPT-4, in an open letter citing potential risks to society.
- AI company harvested billions of Facebook photos for a facial recognition database it sold to police | Salon.com — Artificial intelligence is having a cultural moment. AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT — and their visual image-creating counterparts like DALL-E — have been in the news lately for fear that they could replace human jobs. Such AI tools work by scraping the data from millions of texts and pictures, refashioning new works by remixing existing ones in intelligent ways that make them seem almost human.
- Microsoft's Bing A.I. is leading to creepy experiences for users — New York Times columnist Kevin Roose wrote on Thursday that when he talked to Sydney, the chatbot seemed like “a moody, manic-depressive teenager who has been trapped, against its will, inside a second-rate search engine.”
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman discuss an open letter to pause AI development.
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Links:
- Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter - Future of Life Institute
- Elon Musk and others urge AI pause, citing 'risks to society' | Reuters — Elon Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives are calling for a six-month pause in developing systems more powerful than OpenAI's newly launched GPT-4, in an open letter citing potential risks to society.
- AI company harvested billions of Facebook photos for a facial recognition database it sold to police | Salon.com — Artificial intelligence is having a cultural moment. AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT — and their visual image-creating counterparts like DALL-E — have been in the news lately for fear that they could replace human jobs. Such AI tools work by scraping the data from millions of texts and pictures, refashioning new works by remixing existing ones in intelligent ways that make them seem almost human.
- Microsoft's Bing A.I. is leading to creepy experiences for users — New York Times columnist Kevin Roose wrote on Thursday that when he talked to Sydney, the chatbot seemed like “a moody, manic-depressive teenager who has been trapped, against its will, inside a second-rate search engine.”
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Episode 144: Self-Publishing a Tech Book
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to prolific tech author, Kyle Rankin, about how he recently self-published his latest book, and how that differs from his many experiences with traditional publishers.
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Special Guest: Kyle Rankin.
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- Kyle Rankin - Books and Publications Spotlight | Lulu — Kyle Rankin has over two decades of professional Linux experience, and was a long-time systems administrator with a particular focus on infrastructure security, architecture, automation, and troubleshooting. He is the author of The Best of Hack and /: Linux Admin Crash Course (self-published, 2023), Linux Hardening in Hostile Networks (Pearson, 2017), DevOps Troubleshooting (Addison-Wesley, 2012), The Official Ubuntu Server Book, Third Edition (Prentice Hall, 2013), Knoppix Hacks, 2nd Edition (O’Reilly, 2007), and Ubuntu Hacks (O’Reilly, 2006), among other books. Rankin was an award-winning columnist and tech editor for Linux Journal, and speaks frequently on Open Source software including at SCALE, FOSDEM, O’Reilly Security Conference, Linux Fest NorthWest, BSidesLV, CactusCon, OSCON, Linux World Expo, and Penguicon.
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