OpenAI only wants the regulation that it proposes. Unsurprisingly

https://qz.com/chatgpt-openai-sam-altman-eu-rules-ai-act-1850473713

One of the things I have loved about Mastodon and the fediverse is that it changed how I use social media. On Twitter, my feed looked like everyone else's: RTs of all the same big accounts.

The big accounts aren't here. They aren't dominating conversations or our feeds. We are finding new accounts, new voices, new perspectives, and new jokes. I realize that this wisdom and wit did exist on Twitter, but it was not easily discovered.

I just popped into Bluesky. Looked at the feed of a well-known Twitter account, and all it consisted of was interactions with that exact same select few accounts.

Twitter, Bluesky, and Post are spectator social media. There are people who prefer to be spectators, and some of the big accounts do provide important information and insight. But it's not conversational in a way that includes followers.

Excited to announce that I’m joining @bkc as. #responsibleai AI fellow! I’ll be working on issues of AI governance.

I’m enthusiastic to be on the outside of industry; there’s a moment now considering Musk and Twitter, tech layoffs, generative AI as well as 2023 being the year we get algorithmic accountability laws (#dsa #EUAIAct)

https://cyber.harvard.edu/story/2023-01/announcing-dr-rumman-chowdhury-berkman-klein-center-responsible-ai-fellow

What idiot called it Safari and not iBrowse

The "deep lesson" has to do with how we collectively design information access systems, and our choices in this moment. Do we lean in to #AIhype or do we level up information hygiene? Do we accept inevitability narratives about centralized control of info systems, or do we resist?

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Should you be short of evidence of #corporate cynicism, then this story from @TheGuardian on #Exxon's well-founded & researched prediction of the #climatecrisis will be a welcome bit of ammunition for your suspicion of our current model of #capitalism which centres & privileges the interest of #corporations!

While I'm a reformist who thinks capitalism can be done better, I'll admit this sort of evidence does nothing to help my case!_
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/12/exxon-climate-change-global-warming-research?utm_term=63c1006180b8d5a478cf5c7f433f9306&utm_campaign=FirstEdition&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=firstedition_email

So much this:

New blog post about diffusion language models: https://benanne.github.io/2023/01/09/diffusion-language.html

Diffusion models have completely taken over generative modelling of perceptual signals -- why is autoregression still the name of the game for language modelling? And can we do anything about that?

There’s a lot of #AI #responsibleai #ethicalai newsletters out there, but one of my favorites has been @jiahao ‘s - an excellent and fact-based overview of what’s going on:

https://raillc.substack.com/p/2023-01

Today, you can choose not to drive a Tesla if you don’t want Elon Musk, Inc. knowing everywhere you go.

Tomorrow, you might have to limit where you live because you won’t live in a Google Home and reconsider having 20/20 vision again in exchange for the artificial lens company seeing everything you see.

Privacy is not something you can “vote with your wallet” on. We either protect it as a human right or we lose it altogether.

#privacy #humanRights #BigTech #peopleFarming #capitalism

CFP: Digital Twins & Doubles: Data of Cooperation.

Venue: University of Siegen, July 17-19, 2023.

Submission Deadline: January 31, 2023.

Details: https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en/call-for-contribution-international-conference-digital-twins-doubles-data-of-cooperation/

#mediastudies, #digitaltwins

The latest issue of 'Ahead of AI' is now available!

This edition covers my top 10 papers of the year, as well as trends in the AI industry, notable developments in open source projects, and my personal yearly review routine.

Check it out at the link below and have a happy new year!

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/ahead-of-ai-4-a-big-year-for-ai

#silentSunday #photography #craterLake #oregon #nationalparks #landscape

What’s the word for when your eyeliner runs out just after you’ve already used it on one side???

@alex @roxanadaneshjou Agreed, you have to lean-in hard. I propose to call that aesthetic: “accidental asymmetricism”.

Someone just replied to an email I sent them in July... *2002* so you're probably doing ok

Can we just reflect on how some journalists are struggling with the concept of a social media network without a "Guy In Charge of It All" so much that one of them made up a guy?

How will they write about the King of Mastodons feuding with The King of the Twitters?

I'm starting to realize just how unaware many people must be of the remarkable things happing right now to social media.

I was told that THIS (what we are doing) could NEVER happen. But it is!

#JohnMastodon

A front page article on the Washington Post telling people how to get started with Mastodon?

That’s a big deal.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/17/how-to-join-mastodon/

Happy to be here. Am one of the trio who resigned from #Twitter's Trust & Safety Council on Dec 8 before #Musk disbanded said Council on Dec 12. #introduction #Introductions

Hello everyone!👋 Newly arrived from the site that shall not be named. Miss my friends and all that I learned there. Would love 😍 to make new friends on @mastodon interested in: #Mathematics or #TheoreticalComputerScience or #Consciousness or #Philosophy or #AI or #Neuroscience or #Life ... (to be cont'd)