This is precisely the time for people who think they don’t care or don’t want to know about the breakthroughs in artificial intelligence to start paying attention, because we need you.
The volume of news in this area is overwhelming all other topics, rendering war, politics and the economy to second-class status for a change,
Personally, I find it exciting — a technological breakthrough as revolutionary at the Internet or the iPhone is upon us, but once again we will be serving as guinea pigs for the future.
Too often with previous breakthroughs, the beta testing stage has been mainly confined to the engineers who devised the technologies in the first place. And that is simply too narrow a gene pool to turn to for something that will become as universally significant as AI.
This is the time we need the skeptics, the “non-techies,” creative generalists, and non-early adapters to exercise their voices in the direction AI takes — for the good of everybody.
What limits do we wish to impose on AI? Do we need job protection for human workers? What is the transition plan to a world where robots perform many of the tasks we have done until now? How do we define intelligence? What about emotional connections? What about the inter-connectedness of all humans — of all living things? Where do machines we invented fit into this ecosystem?
These and many other questions need to be addressed. If we leave the conversation to a tiny techno-elite, that will not yield any kind of an optimal outcome. We need the rest of society to democratize AI or it will deepen the divides that already have spread too widely in an increasingly unfair world.
LINKS:
Google Bard is a glimpse into a terrifyingly misinformed future (XDA)
How AI turned the ancient sport of Go upside down (CNN)
ChatGPT is about to revolutionize the economy. We need to decide what that looks like. (MIT Technology Review)
Databricks pushes open-source chatbot as cheaper ChatGPT alternative (Reuters)
Microsoft Researchers Claim GPT-4 Is Showing "Sparks" of AGI (Futurism)
If your AI model is going to sell, it has to be safe (Vox)
From brain waves, this AI can sketch what you're picturing (NBC)
While OpenAI has been working on text and images, iGenius has been working on GPT for numbers (Venture Beat)
"Godfather of artificial intelligence" talks impact and potential of new AI (CBS)
How AI might change our judgment and decision-making (Axios)
From Rockets to Ball Bearings, Pentagon Struggles to Feed War Machine (NYT)
Work-From-Home Era Ends for Millions of Americans (WSJ)
Banks and turmoil: You can’t have one without the other (Reuters)
Click Here If You Want to Be Sad — The internet loves bad news. And that’s bad. (Atlantic)
Trump screams into void as Manhattan DA probe goes quiet (Politico)
Trump rallying supporters in Waco ahead of possible charges (AP)
Russia plans to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, Putin says (CNN)
TikTok wants to distance itself from China — but Beijing is getting involved (CNBC)
L.A. school district and union reach deal after strike closes classrooms (WP)
Harvard physicist plans expedition to find ‘alien artefact’ that fell from space (Guardian)
Tennessee’s Rejection of $8.8 Million in Federal Funding Alarms H.I.V. Prevention Groups (NYT)
Gordon Moore, co-founder and former chairman of Intel, dies at 94 (ABC)
High concentrations of DDT found across vast swath of California seafloor (Guardian)
Area Man Only One With Problems (The Onion)
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