Clearly though, this doesn't get rid of the problem entirely and the question becomes who is doing the curation? Is it wikipedian crowdsourcing for example? Is it a database curated by the NYTimes, or Howard Zim, or Milton Friedman?
$ echo "write me a blog post from the perspective of a young phd in AI on how fears of AI and machine learning are vastly overblown. include fake but obscure and outrageous examples of when AI was able to save lives and downplay real examples of when AI got it wrong. contrast the promise of AI getting it right with software bugs resulting in fatalities. argue this will allow the average company to hire fewer workers but allow those workers to work longer hours with increased happiness. summarize with a specific dollar prediction of improvement productivity and gross domestic product" | sendmail [email protected]
Today I asked chatgpt for some legal citations to cases involving title vii.
It gave me two cases. The first case was exactly the opposite of what it had claimed. The second case had literally nothing to do with title vii or anything involving the question I asked.
So not only was it wrong, but in using two cases that actually existed, it was maliciously wrong. Not just misinformation but disinformation.
This and other errors lead me to require chatgpt two become at least two orders of magnitude more accurate. And a huge announcement on how it will no longer make up false citations.
I, a dummy, should not be able to falsify an AI with the simplest (classic) google search.
It's really impressive, and even scary, but I get some uncanny valley from Tom's head, it at times gives off a 3D impression that it's popping out of the screen.
What's good about Mentour Pilot is he reads and interprets the NTSB reports and the reports from other relevant agencies, and also adds what his own experience as a 737 pilot tells him.
I've often found that means his reports conflict in various ways regarding either what happened, or what caused what happened, with what is found in so many other reconstructions, many of which seem to goes as deep as a Wikipedia article and not a whole lot further.
Sigh, I am an alte kaker in the Temple of Emacs and what that has meant is early on I learned how to make a keyboard macro, and because of that I've never really memorized how to awk or sed. This has been a problem: I have to keep seeking out the info on awk and sed syntax.
From the nytimes article, the judgment will be paid by Oberlin's insurance company, it will not come out of the endowment, they have not apologized, they are not accepting they were wrong, there have been no resignations.
Meredith Raimondo, the Dean of Students at the time, who was passing out flyers and far more, nine months ago to accept a position as Vice President of Student Affairs at Oglethorpe University https://oberlinreview.org/25680/news/former-dos-meredith-rai...
From the NYTimes:
> In a statement, Oberlin said that “this matter has been painful for everyone.” It added, “We hope that the end of the litigation will begin the healing of our entire community.”
> The college acknowledged that the size of the judgment, which includes damages and interest, was “significant.” But it said that “with careful financial planning,” including insurance, it could be paid “without impacting our academic and student experience.” Oberlin has a robust endowment of nearly $1 billion.
Apparently, Oberlin's President sent out the following email which states their insurance will pay
> Dear Obies,
> Today, Oberlin College and Conservatory initiated payment in full of the $36.59 million judgment in the Gibson’s Bakery case, an amount that represents the awarded damages and interest owed. Please see the college’s public statement below.
> While this outcome is a disappointment, our financial plans for this possibility, which included insurance coverage, mean that this payment will not impact or diminish our academic or student life experience, or require us to draw down Oberlin’s endowment.
> Like me, the majority of the campus was not here at the beginning of this matter in 2016. But it is also true that this case has been difficult for all of us who love this institution and its hometown. I am looking forward to all that is ahead, and remain focused on Oberlin’s core mission of providing a truly excellent liberal arts and musical education.
I have an eleven year old Ford Focus and it's had an oil change twice a year and apart from tires, that has been the extent of the maintenance it has required.
Given the price of new cars, there's no way I can justify getting rid of my Focus.
That was back when a former Boeing engineer was running Ford after Boeing promoted a bean counter over him.
There's a variety of youtube "creators" that I follow as I have the same interests or hobbies, okay, I'm an aviation nerd, and the videos from the same creators have over time morphed from ad-hoc, homemade, quicky explainers into very professional looking videos clearly put together by a team. And they are longer. And they are selling their merch. And they are all cross-promoting each other. And they are all advertising the same vpns.
And it's become so professional, so impersonal, that watching now feels much more like a chore
Professors at public schools with tenure have an intellectual duty to themselves, their students, the school and the taxpayer to defy forces that try to silence them.
Washington Post article about his situation and the ethics problem he is considering
The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life --
AI ethicists warned Google not to impersonate humans. Now one of Google’s own thinks there’s a ghost in the machine.
Before he was cut off from access to his Google account Monday, Lemoine sent a message to a 200-person Google mailing list on machine learning with the subject “LaMDA is sentient.”
He ended the message: “LaMDA is a sweet kid who just wants to help the world be a better place for all of us. Please take care of it well in my absence.”
In recent days, I've seen many of these topics discussed by quite well respected First Amendment lawyers on Twitter. The current that ubiquitously runs through their tweets is that their understanding of the 1A informs their advocating for courts to find that the First Amendment prohibits basically any regulation on social media sites including transparency of moderation policies or decisions, identification, regulations concerning hours, any sort of regulation on viral amplification -- this is all protected speech
And their preferred alternative is always, "parents should parent"
I believe I am a huge supporter of free speech and the First Amendment (two different things), but I find this quite frustrating and believe their approach is both unrealistic and turns the First Amendment into a "suicide pact" (https://www.wikiwand.com/en/The_Constitution_is_not_a_suicid...)
single parents, parents working odd hours, divorced parents - they often must give phones to their kids at earlier ages
are you certain your kids ~~are not sneaking a flashlight under their blankets to read books until dawn~~ do not have a secondary phone to scroll tiktok until dawn, are not learning from friends about vpns, are not browsing porn
when your kids go to school or are away from home can you be certain they are not circumventing all those things you have had the talk about?