pheras

pheras, 21 days ago to random Spanish

"The use of probabilistic techniques to determine who is worthy of death – wherever they’re used – is, to me, the most chilling example of the serious dangers of the current centralized AI industry ecosystem, and of the very material risks of believing the bombastic claims of intelligence and accuracy that are used to market these inaccurate systems."

Read the whole piece by @Mer__edith

https://www.helmut-schmidt.de/aktuelles/detail/die-rede-der-zukunftspreistraegerin

pheras, 2 months ago to random Spanish

"A group of researchers backed by the French government have released what is thought to be the largest AI training dataset composed entirely of text that is in the public domain. And the nonprofit Fairly Trained announced that it has awarded its first certification for a large language model built without copyright infringement, showing that technology like that behind ChatGPT can be built in a different way to the AI industry’s contentious norm.'

https://www.wired.com/story/proof-you-can-train-ai-without-slurping-copyrighted-content/ @jgbarah

pheras, 3 months ago to random

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/23/gazeteer/#out-of-cycle by @pluralistic

pheras, 1 month ago to random

It does not matter if you are paying or not for a service offered by a cloud platform. It does not matter if in fact the platform is your client

What should worry you is if you have the freedom to leave that platform

And you can only gain that freedom by fighting with the law the companies that want to retain you in their platforms, either as a client or as a provider

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/22/kargo-kult-kaptialism/#dont-buy-it

By @pluralistic

pheras, 3 months ago to random

Does anyone even want an AI search engine? by Ryan Broderick. Through @pluralistic

https://www.garbageday.email/p/ai-search-doomsday-cult

(long version) https://www.fastcompany.com/91033052/does-anyone-even-want-an-ai-search-engine

pheras, 11 months ago to random Spanish

How the brain achieves consciousness?

Nobody knows. The quest continues.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02120-8

pheras, 10 months ago to random Spanish

New book from @pluralistic about how to seize the means of computation

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/the-internet-con-how-to-seize-the-means-of-computation

pheras, 9 months ago to random Spanish

AI in 1953: even before the acronym was coined the hype was already there

Featuring Shannon, Wiener, machine learning, robotics,...

https://youtu.be/NN7mlicU95w?feature=shared

via @timnitGebru

pheras, 5 months ago to random Spanish

@brianmerchant and @pluralistic write about the future and the aftermath of the AI bubble blast

1/ https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-12-14/column-this-was-the-year-of-ai-next-year-is-when-you-have-to-worry

2/ https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/

pheras, 3 months ago to random

AI in education is a public problem. By Ben Williamson.

"These 21 arguments against AI in education demonstrate how AI cannot be considered inevitable, beneficial or transformative in any straightforward way. You do not even need to take a strongly normative perspective either way to see that AI in education is highly contested and controversial. "

https://codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2024/02/22/ai-in-education-is-a-public-problem/

pheras, 2 months ago to random Spanish

"Social Media Authoritarianism and the World As It Is"

By
@Mer__edith

https://lpeproject.org/blog/social-media-authoritarianism-and-the-world-as-it-is/

pheras, 1 year ago to random Spanish

How Eugenics shaped statistics

https://nautil.us/how-eugenics-shaped-statistics-238014/

via @timnitGebru

pheras, 1 year ago to random

Higher Ed as a Public Good

and

Higher Ed for the Public Good

by Professor Moshe Y. Vardi @vardi , Rice University

https://medium.com/@vardi/higher-ed-as-a-public-good-2534759b339c

pheras, 1 year ago to random Spanish

Ayyyyyyu-Eyeeeee

The lie that raced around the world before the truth got its boots on.

by @pluralistic
https://doctorow.medium.com/ayyyyyy-eyeeeee-4ac92fa2eed

paurea, 9 days ago to random

@pheras Do bears shit in the woods?

pheras, 8 days ago to random Spanish

TV pública alemana: niños alemanes enfermos no son curados porque China no les vende antibióticos, industrias subvencionadas chinas fabrican mejor y más barato que las subvencionadas alemanas, infraestructura de telecomunicación controlada por China para seguirles espiando,...

Dan voz a taiwaneses que piden enviar barcos de guerra alemanes a defender Taiwan, al igual que los mercenarios Taiwaneses van a Ucrania a luchar con fusiles de asalto contra Rusia.

Alemania 2024

https://youtu.be/Fm-QRow2zzI?feature=shared

pheras, 8 days ago to random Spanish

TV pública alemana: niños alemanes enfermos no son curados porque China no les vende antibióticos, industrias subvencionadas chinas fabrican mejor y más barato que las subvencionadas alemanas, infraestructura de telecomunicación controlada por China para seguirles espiando,...

Dan voz a taiwaneses que piden enviar barcos de guerra alemanes al mar de China, y conceden protagonismo a mercenario Taiwanés que lucha en Ucrania con fusil de asalto contra Rusia

Alemania, 2024

https://youtu.be/Fm-QRow2zzI?feature=shared

pheras, 9 days ago to random

• Citizens can trust MSFT protects their privacy, right?

• No. Not at all.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/3/24170305/microsoft-windows-recall-ai-screenshots-security-privacy-issues

• Then in Google they can trust.

• Nope.

https://www.404media.co/google-leak-reveals-thousands-of-privacy-incidents/

• Is Computing a Discipline in Crisis?

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/is-computing-a-discipline-in-crisis/

pheras, 8 days ago to random Spanish

Documental de la TV pública alemana sobre China: niños alemanes enfermos no son curados porque China no les vende medicamentos, industrias subvencionadas chinas que fabrican mejor y más barato que las subvencionadas alemanas,...

El hilo conductor con el que cierran es la sugerencia de que Alemania debería seguir la estrategia del mercenario Taiwanés que para defender su isla de la amenaza China fue a Ucrania a luchar con un fusil de asalto contra Rusia.

https://youtu.be/Fm-QRow2zzI?feature=shared

pheras, 8 days ago to random Spanish

"In the Jaws of the Dragon"

Revealing, crazy documentary of german public TV about China.

A review of their self-inflicted industrial dependency attributed to the chinese subsidized industry.

Even when Germany copies China by subsidizing Infineon & TSMC in Dresden, China strikes by don't selling them the Germanium and Galium that Germany long ago stopped producing.

Finally they suggest: if taiwanese mercenaries fight mainland China by fighting russians in Ukraine,...

https://youtu.be/tQPvA6u8I-o

pheras, 8 days ago to random Spanish

TV pública alemana: niños alemanes enfermos no son curados porque China no les vende antibióticos, industrias subvencionadas chinas que fabrican mejor y más barato que las subvencionadas alemanas, infraestructura de telecomunicación controlada por China para seguirles espiando,...

Concluyen sugiriendo que Alemania debería seguir la estrategia del mercenario Taiwanés que para defender su isla de la amenaza China fue a Ucrania a luchar con un fusil de asalto contra Rusia.

https://youtu.be/Fm-QRow2zzI?feature=shared

pheras, 9 days ago to random

Citizens can trust MSFT protects their privacy, right?

No. Not at all.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/3/24170305/microsoft-windows-recall-ai-screenshots-security-privacy-issues

Then in Google they can trust.

Nope.

https://www.404media.co/google-leak-reveals-thousands-of-privacy-incidents/

pheras, 4 days ago to random Spanish

pheras, 6 days ago to random

TikTok will be banned if it is not owned by a US company. What for?

IT US companies:

MSFT takes frequent screenshots of your desktop and stores OCR in SQLite, easily retrievable from other accounts in the machine (https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/06/windows-recall-demands-an-extraordinary-level-of-trust-that-microsoft-hasnt-earned/)

MSFT spies your LLMs chat sessions (https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/02/microsoft-is-spying-on-users-of-its-ai-tools.html)

New Adobe license in Photoshop forces creators to allow Adobe appropriate their works (https://nichegamer.com/photoshop-terms-of-service-grants-adobe-access-to-user-projects-for-content-moderation/)

Google processes every single bit ever existed about you (https://www.404media.co/google-leak-reveals-thousands-of-privacy-incidents/)