remixtures

remixtures, 10 minutes ago to ai Portuguese

#AI #GenerativeAI #AIHype #AGI: "The reality is that no matter how much OpenAI, Google, and the rest of the heavy hitters in Silicon Valley might want to continue the illusion that generative AI represents a transformative moment in the history of digital technology, the truth is that their fantasy is getting increasingly difficult to maintain. The valuations of AI companies are coming down from their highs and major cloud providers are tamping down the expectations of their clients for what AI tools will actually deliver. That’s in part because the chatbots are still making a ton of mistakes in the answers they give to users, including during Google’s I/O keynote. Companies also still haven’t figured out how they’re going to make money off all this expensive tech, even as the resource demands are escalating so much their climate commitments are getting thrown out the window."

https://disconnect.blog/ai-hype-is-over-ai-exhaustion-is-setting-in/

remixtures, 1 day ago to tesla Portuguese

Elon Musk is such a Jocker :-D LoL!!!

#Tesla #EVs #AI #Autopilot #SelfDrivingCars: "Tesla Inc. must face a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that it misled consumers about its cars’ self-driving capabilities, a fresh setback for the electric-car maker just as Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has staked the company’s future on autonomy.

Tesla has been accused of overstating in 2016 that all its upcoming cars would have the “hardware needed for full self-driving capability” and would be able to drive themselves from Los Angeles to New York City by the end of 2017.

“If Tesla meant to convey that its hardware was sufficient to reach high or full automation,” the complaint “plainly alleges sufficient falsity,” US District Judge Rita Lin wrote in an order Wednesday."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-15/tesla-must-face-suit-alleging-buyers-were-misled-about-autopilot

remixtures, 1 day ago to Bulgaria Portuguese

#EU #AI #AIAct #Copyright #TDM: "This policy brief further develops the ideas expressed in our previous policy brief on this topic in light of the copyright provisions of the AI Act. Article 53(1c) of the AI Act requires providers of general-purpose AI models to implement policies to comply with EU copyright law, particularly, with the machine-readable opt-outs from the text and data mining (TDM) exception. This new Open Future policy brief explores what such a compliance policy might look like in practice. It provides an overview of the technical standards and services that are available to implement rights holders’ opt-outs in a way that is effective, scalable, and able to meet the needs of both rights holders and AI model developers.

The brief argues that to achieve this goal, four different aspects of machine-readable opt-outs require further attention: the identifiers for works, the vocabulary for opt-outs, the infrastructure used to communicate and respect opt-outs, and the effect of an opt-out once it has been recorded. For each of these four areas, there is a need to build consensus and converge on solutions that work for all stakeholders."

https://openfuture.eu/publication/considerations-for-implementing-rightholder-opt-outs-by-ai-model-developers/

remixtures, 1 day ago to ai Portuguese

#AI #GenerativeAI #Hallucinations: "I want to be very clear: I am a cis woman and do not have a beard. But if I type “show me a picture of Alex Cranz” into the prompt window, Meta AI inevitably returns images of very pretty dark-haired men with beards. I am only some of those things!

Meta AI isn’t the only one to struggle with the minutiae of The Verge’s masthead. ChatGPT told me yesterday I don’t work at The Verge. Google’s Gemini didn’t know who I was (fair), but after telling me Nilay Patel was a founder of The Verge, it then apologized and corrected itself, saying he was not. (I assure you he was.)

When you ask these bots about things that actually matter they mess up, too. Meta’s 2022 launch of Galactica was so bad the company took the AI down after three days. Earlier this year, ChatGPT had a spell and started spouting absolute nonsense, but it also regularly makes up case law, leading to multiple lawyers getting into hot water with the courts.

The AI keeps screwing up because these computers are stupid. Extraordinary in their abilities and astonishing in their dimwittedness. I cannot get excited about the next turn in the AI revolution because that turn is into a place where computers cannot consistently maintain accuracy about even minor things."

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24154808/ai-chatgpt-google-gemini-microsoft-copilot-hallucination-wrong

remixtures, 1 day ago to random Portuguese

RT @josephfcox
New from 404 Media: a prolific creator of nonconsensual AI-generated porn quit their day job because they're making so much money selling access to the content on Patreon. Patreon removed the page, as well as two others, after 404 Media inquired https://404media.co/how-makers-of-nonconsensual-ai-porn-make-a-living-on-patreon/

remixtures, 1 day ago to Cybersecurity Portuguese

#Cybersecurity #Privacy #DataProtection: "EVA GALPERIN: Privacy and security are not the same thing. For example, Facebook is extremely interested in protecting your security. They want to make sure that it is always you logging into your account. They will go through a great deal of trouble to keep your account secure.

But, you enter all kinds of data into that account. You tell it where you are located. You send it all of your pictures. You send messages and Facebook collects all of that data. They don’t want you to keep it private, they want you to hand it to them so that they can use it in order to serve you targeted ads and make them money.

ALOK PATEL: My accounts are mostly secure when I control access to them, but that doesn’t mean the data I put in them stays private, far from it. Privacy and security are not the same, but they are two sides of the same coin, and I have to understand both if I’m going to protect my personal data.

MATT MITCHELL: When your privacy is taken from you, your agency is taken from you. Privacy is that whisper, when you think you’re whispering to your friend, but you’re shouting in a crowded elevator. You’re robbed of something, and that’s why privacy is so important."

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/secrets-in-your-data/

remixtures, 1 day ago to privacy Portuguese

#Privacy #TornadoCash #FreeSpeech #DigitalRights #Blockchain: "The conviction of Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev is sending ripple effects through the blockchain industry, which is bracing for a long-foreseen chilling effect.

This is likely to deter devs from building privacy and security enhancing digital tools, said Aaron Mackey, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco.

“Holding a developer of beneficial tools responsible for the wrongdoing of others is short-sighted and harms everyone’s privacy online,” Mackey told DL News."

https://www.dlnews.com/articles/regulation/why-the-tornado-cash-alexey-pertsev-case-harms-everyone/

remixtures, 1 day ago to random Portuguese

#Disconnection #CellPhones #Migrants #AsylumSeekers: "This article investigates online connection and disconnection practices among migrants and asylum seekers. It draws from an ethnography of three Sicilian reception centres that hosted migrants and asylum seekers between September and November 2020. We show how migrants, driven by different migratory motivations, enact different mobile connection and disconnection practices. We argue that these are characterised by the different affective meanings that migrants and asylum seekers attach to mobile connection and disconnection and by the different value they place on the public and private dimensions of their lives. By offering a multifaceted portrait of the mobile connection and disconnection practices of different categories of migrants, this article also contributes to: (1) media and migration studies, by showing that there are substantial differences in online connection practices and smartphone use between asylum seekers and migrants and (2) to disconnection studies, by highlighting the nuances that exist within disconnection practices among non-privileged social groups, such as migrants and asylum seekers. We show that they cannot afford to practise typically Western, urban and elitist forms of disconnection; however, they too are able to practise specific forms of disconnection, paradoxically afforded by staying connected. The article aims to contextualise and situate disconnection studies within different social, political, cultural and geographic contexts." https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614448241249371

remixtures, 1 day ago to india Portuguese

#India #Politics #Elections #WhatsApp #Disinformation #Propaganda: "India’s ongoing elections are the world’s largest in history, with almost 1 billion people eligible to vote. They are so big that voting is being conducted in waves from April 19 to June 1. The BJP, which has been in power for 10 years, is widely expected to win. But in the process, both Modi’s administration and his electoral campaign have been criticized for stirring hate against Muslims and increasing polarization.

As millions of Indians vote, many of them will turn to WhatsApp for information. India is the Meta-owned app’s largest market, with 400 million active users — more than a quarter of the country’s population. India’s last general elections, in 2019, were labeled the “WhatsApp elections” because of the platform’s prevalence and influence. In 2024, politicians are redoubling their focus on the app.

Kiran Garimella, an assistant professor at Rutgers University who researches WhatsApp in India, told Rest of World the app reaches people that other platforms don’t, including remote communities. “There are a number of people in India who only use WhatsApp,” he said.

The scale of the BJP’s WhatsApp operations is incomparable to that of any other political party in the country." https://restofworld.org/2024/bjp-whatsapp-modi/

remixtures, 1 day ago to ai Portuguese

#AI #GenerativeAI #SocialSciences #Humanities: "With Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer releasing a sweeping “roadmap” for AI legislation today and major product announcements from OpenAI and Google, it’s been a big week for AI… and it’s only Wednesday.

But amid the ever-quickening pace of action, some observers wonder if government is looking at the tech industry with the right perspective. A report shared first with DFD from the nonprofit Data & Society argues that in order for powerful AI to integrate successfully with humanity, it must actually feature… the humanities.

Data & Society’s Serena Oduro and Tamara Kneese write that social scientists and other researchers should be directly involved in federally funded efforts to regulate and analyze AI. They say that given the unpredictable impact it might have on how people live, work and interact with institutions, AI development should involve non-STEM experts at every step.

“Especially with a general purpose technology, it is very hard to anticipate what exactly this technology will be used for,” said Kneese, a Data & Society senior researcher."

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/digital-future-daily/2024/05/15/ai-data-society-report-humanities-00158195

remixtures, 1 day ago to Sony Portuguese

Sony Music is the prototype of the company that uses artists as mere puppets for getting the only thing it really wants: free money extracted through IP rents. It's a parasite that doesn't contribute at all to the promotion of arts and science.

#Sony #SonyMusic #AI #GenerativeAI #AITraining #Copyright #IP: "Sony Music is sending warning letters to more than 700 artificial intelligence developers and music streaming services globally in the latest salvo in the music industry’s battle against tech groups ripping off artists.

The Sony Music letter, which has been seen by the Financial Times, expressly prohibits AI developers from using its music — which includes artists such as Harry Styles, Adele and Beyoncé — and opts out of any text and data mining of any of its content for any purposes such as training, developing or commercialising any AI system.

Sony Music is sending the letter to companies developing AI systems including OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Suno and Udio, according to those close to the group.

The world’s second-largest music group is also sending separate letters to streaming platforms, including Spotify and Apple, asking them to adopt “best practice” measures to protect artists and songwriters and their music from scraping, mining and training by AI developers without consent or compensation. It has asked them to update their terms of service, making it clear that mining and training on its content is not permitted.

Sony Music declined to comment further."

https://www.ft.com/content/c5b93b23-9f26-4e6b-9780-a5d3e5e7a409

remixtures, 1 day ago to random Portuguese

RT @ntnsndr
Just announced! After years of work collecting the work of many dozens of contributors around the world, the Beautiful Solutions are coming to your bookshelf: https://orbooks.com/catalog/beautiful-solutions/

remixtures, 1 day ago to statistics Portuguese

#Digitalization #Statistics: "We are inclined to assume that digital technologies have suddenly revolutionized everything – including our relationships, our forms of work and leisure, and even our democracies – in just a few years. Armin Nassehi puts forward a new theory of digital society that turns this assumption on its head. Rather than treating digital technologies as an independent causal force that is transforming social life, he asks: what problem does digitalization solve?

When we pose the question in this way, we can see, argues Nassehi, that digitalization helps societies to deal with and reduce complexity by using coded numbers to process information. We can also see that modern societies had a digital structure long before computer technologies were developed – already in the nineteenth century, for example, statistical pattern recognition technologies were being used in functionally differentiated societies in order to recognize, monitor and control forms of human behaviour. Digital technologies were so successful in such a short period of time and were able to penetrate so many areas of society so quickly precisely because of a pre-existing sensitivity that prepared modern societies for digital development.

This highly original book lays the foundations for a theory of the digital society that will be of value to everyone interested in the growing presence of digital technologies in our lives."

https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=patterns-theory-of-the-digital-society--9781509558216

remixtures, 2 days ago to random Portuguese

"Google is set to introduce a new system called Astra later this year and promises that it will be the most powerful, advanced type of AI assistant it’s ever launched.

The current generation of AI assistants, such as ChatGPT, can retrieve information and offer answers, but that is about it. But this year, Google is rebranding its assistants as more advanced “agents,” which it says could show reasoning, planning, and memory skills and are able to take multiple steps to execute tasks.

People will be able to use Astra through their smartphones and possibly desktop computers, but the company is exploring other options too, such as embedding it into smart glasses or other devices, Oriol Vinyals, vice president of research at Google DeepMind, told MIT Technology Review.

“We are in very early days [of AI agent development],” Google CEO Sundar Pichai said on a call ahead of Google’s I/O conference today." https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/05/14/1092407/googles-astra-is-its-first-ai-for-everything-agent/

remixtures, 2 days ago to random Portuguese

RT @parismarx
I remember the days when people were furious Google was scanning their emails to serve ads. Now we’ve reached the point that everything you send and receive is being filtered through its AI model and you’re expected to love it.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/14/gemini-comes-to-gmail-to-summarize-and-draft-emails/

remixtures, 2 days ago to random Portuguese

RT @Cmmonwealth
Did you know that in 2023, Amazon, Microsoft & Google poured more capital into AI start-ups than any other investor?

Our new report with @CeciliaRikap reveals the extent to which Big Tech companies use the cloud to control the entire AI ecosystem. ⬇️

https://www.common-wealth.org/publications/dynamics-of-corporate-governance-beyond-ownership-in-ai

remixtures, 2 days ago to random Portuguese

RT @matthew_d_green
If you use Apple devices and iCloud, today would be a great day to turn on Advanced Data Protection and enable end-to-end encryption for all your backups.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/108756#:~:text=On%20iPhone%20or%20iPad,Turn%20on%20Advanced%20Data%20Protection

remixtures, 2 days ago to ai Portuguese

#AI #GenerativeAI #AIHype: "The reality is that A.I. models can often prepare a decent first draft. But I find that when I use A.I., I have to spend almost as much time correcting and revising its output as it would have taken me to do the work myself.

And consider for a moment the possibility that perhaps A.I. isn’t going to get that much better anytime soon. After all, the A.I. companies are running out of new data on which to train their models, and they are running out of energy to fuel their power-hungry A.I. machines. Meanwhile, authors and news organizations (including The New York Times) are contesting the legality of having their data ingested into the A.I. models without their consent, which could end up forcing quality data to be withdrawn from the models.

Given these constraints, it seems just as likely to me that generative A.I. could end up like the Roomba, the mediocre vacuum robot that does a passable job when you are home alone but not if you are expecting guests."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/opinion/artificial-intelligence-ai-openai-chatgpt-overrated-hype.html

remixtures, 2 days ago to mentalhealth Portuguese

Really, enough of putting the blame on abstract agents like technological objects and start finding the real culprits: stressed or incompetent teachers, corrupt or incompetent politicians, sloppy or absent parents. This obsessive mania for wanting to put non-human causes at the root of human problems should be understood as a symptom of something much more serious.

#Smartphones #MentalHealth #Teens #PseudoScience:
"1. Cherry-picking research

Studies that support Haidt’s thesis are prominent, and information that does not conform is omitted or downplayed. In Figure 1.11, Haidt plots the percentage of Nordic teens with high psychological distress and highlights its rise between 2010 and 2015 (from Health Behavior in School Children data), especially among girls. However, the overall results of the HBSC, which surveyed more than 100,000 youths worldwide, does not show an increase in psychological symptoms or a decrease in life satisfaction between 2002 and 2014. These indicators are rather stable, with, at best, only a slight increase (see, studies by Dierckens and colleagues or Cosma and colleagues).

Haidt often relegates non-conforming information to the endnotes, like the fact that there “are a few studies that report little to no effect of screen use on sleep” (Chapter 5, note 36).

Researchers who focus on the complex relationships between various technologies and adolescents’ wellbeing have no evidence that engagement with digital technology is resulting in worse impacts on adolescents’ mental health problems over time. There is only a little evidence for the negative effects of digital screen engagement on adolescent wellbeing."

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/2024/05/15/haidt/

remixtures, 2 days ago to microsoft Portuguese

#Microsoft #FossilFuels #Decarbonization #ClimateChange #AI: "When Microsoft Corp. pledged four years ago to remove more carbon than it emits by the end of the decade, it was one of the most ambitious and comprehensive plans to tackle climate change. Now the software giant's relentless push to be the global leader in artificial intelligence is putting that goal in peril.

The Seattle-based company’s total planet-warming impact is about 30% higher today than it was in 2020, according to the latest sustainability report published Wednesday. That makes getting to below zero by 2030 even harder than it was when it announced its carbon-negative goal.

Now to meet its goals, the software giant will have to make serious progress very quickly in gaining access to green steel and concrete and less carbon-intensive chips, said Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, in an exclusive interview with Bloomberg Green. “In 2020, we unveiled what we called our carbon moonshot. That was before the explosion in artificial intelligence,” he said. “So in many ways the moon is five times as far away as it was in 2020, if you just think of our own forecast for the expansion of AI and its electrical needs.”"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-15/microsoft-s-ai-investment-imperils-climate-goal-as-emissions-jump-30

remixtures, 2 days ago to ai Portuguese

#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #ParetoCurves: "Which is the most accurate AI system for generating code? Surprisingly, there isn’t currently a good way to answer questions like these.

Based on HumanEval, a widely used benchmark for code generation, the most accurate publicly available system is LDB (short for LLM debugger).1 But there’s a catch. The most accurate generative AI systems, including LDB, tend to be agents,2 which repeatedly invoke language models like GPT-4. That means they can be orders of magnitude more costly to run than the models themselves (which are already pretty costly). If we eke out a 2% accuracy improvement for 100x the cost, is that really better?

In this post, we argue that:

• AI agent accuracy measurements that don’t control for cost aren’t useful.

• Pareto curves can help visualize the accuracy-cost tradeoff.

• Current state-of-the-art agent architectures are complex and costly but no more accurate than extremely simple baseline agents that cost 50x less in some cases.

• Proxies for cost such as parameter count are misleading if the goal is to identify the best system for a given task. We should directly measure dollar costs instead.

• Published agent evaluations are difficult to reproduce because of a lack of standardization and questionable, undocumented evaluation methods in some cases."

https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/ai-leaderboards-are-no-longer-useful

remixtures, 2 days ago to TechnicalWriting Portuguese

#TechnicalWriting #ProjectManagement #SoftwareDocumentation: "Why is it essential to establish a clear documentation workflow? How can developers, project managers (PMs), and techwriters work closely together without being a bottleneck? You may be familiar with these issues or looking for a better solution to make the customer and internal (in-house) documentation workflows more efficient.

The development of our workflow spanned about 4 to 5 years, during which we achieved smaller goals and had to adjust our plans along the way.

The actual implementation took 3 to 6 months, but this is surely not its final form. Our work environment and industry are always changing, so we need to keep experimenting to adapt quickly. Now, after reflecting on our progress and making adjustments, we've brought everything together in a more organized way. Even though we had the components ready, it still took a lot of effort to complete the whole picture."

https://pronovix.com/articles/intricacies-team-and-project-management-technical-writing

remixtures, 2 days ago to TechnicalWriting Portuguese

#TechnicalWriting #ProjectManagement #SoftwareDocumentation: "Why is it essential to establish a clear documentation workflow? How can developers, project managers (PMs), and techwriters work closely together without being a bottleneck? You may be familiar with these issues or looking for a better solution to make the customer and internal (in-house) documentation workflows more efficient.

The development of our workflow spanned about 4 to 5 years, during which we achieved smaller goals and had to adjust our plans along the way.

The actual implementation took 3 to 6 months, but this is surely not its final form. Our work environment and industry are always changing, so we need to keep experimenting to adapt quickly. Now, after reflecting on our progress and making adjustments, we've brought everything together in a more organized way. Even though we had the components ready, it still took a lot of effort to complete the whole picture."

https://pronovix.com/articles/intricacies-team-and-project-management-technical-writing

remixtures, 3 days ago to ai Portuguese

#AI #GenerativeAI #Energy #DataCenters: "The rapid growth of the technology industry and the increasing reliance on cloud computing and artificial intelligence have led to a boom in the construction of data centers across the United States. Electric vehicles, wind and solar energy, and the smart grid are particularly reliant on data centers to optimize energy utilization. These facilities house thousands of servers that require constant cooling to prevent overheating and ensure optimal performance.

Unfortunately, many data centers rely on water-intensive cooling systems that consume millions of gallons of potable (“drinking”) water annually. A single data center can consume up to 3 million to 5 million gallons of drinking water per day, enough to supply thousands of households or farms.

The increasing use and training of AI models has further exacerbated the water consumption challenges faced by data centers."

https://archive.ph/7bunV