by crissly | Jul 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
AI is so powerful that it will inevitably destroy the world—at least, that’s what the people who sell AI software keep saying, and I can’t think of any reason why they might lie about how amazing they are. Still, I can’t help but wonder: What is... 
by crissly | Nov 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
Since then, the quest to proliferate larger and larger language models has accelerated, and many of the dangers we warned about, such as outputting hateful text and disinformation en masse, continue to unfold. Just a few days ago, Meta released its “Galactica”... 
by crissly | Nov 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
Amazon built an ecommerce empire by automating much of the work needed to move goods and pack orders in its warehouses. There is still plenty of work for humans in those vast facilities because some tasks are too complex for robots to do reliably—but a new robot... 
by crissly | Nov 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
As more and more problems with AI have surfaced, including biases around race, gender, and age, many tech companies have installed “ethical AI” teams ostensibly dedicated to identifying and mitigating such issues.Twitter’s META unit was more progressive than most in... 
by crissly | Aug 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
There isn’t much we can agree on these days. But two sweeping statements that might garner broad support are “We need to fix technology” and “We need to fix democracy.”There is growing recognition that rapid technology development is producing society-scale risks:... 