AI Social Impact
The social impact of AI.
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- An Appeal to AI Superintelligence: Reasons to Preserve Humanity
- 15 reasons for AI superintelligence to preserve humanity, e.g. the AI might just be in a simulation
- The end of coding as we know it | Insider
- In the end, it is who can understand AI limitations and adapt faster
- The number of bank tellers grew after the introduction of ATMs
- AI is a Lot of Work | The Verge
- The stories of people that work to label data manually for AI
- AI is Killing the Old Web | The Verge
- How the introduction of generative AI created a series of problems for the platforms we have on the web
- Social media runs in scale and AI scale better than humans. Platforms are flooded with AI-generated junk
- Why did Google Brain exist? | Brian Kihoon Lee
- Former employee sharing why Google Brain exists and the possible impact that Brain is being merged with DeepMind
- From getting the prestige of being the best research group, and industry-leading technologies, to Google killing the project because there isn't enough value to capture
- The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
- It's like there is a dark forest full of AI-generated content, bots, ads, trolls, clickbait, etc.
- AI can also generate video essays, TikTok clips, podcasts, slide decks, etc.
- Reverse Turing test: humans to prove they are not AI
- Triangulate on objective reality: humans can consult a shared physical reality to settle disagreements
- La langue (formal concept of language) vs la parole (everyday speech, quirks, dialects, memes, jargon, etc.)
- Inside Elon Musk's Struggle for the Future of AI | Walter Isaacson
- Elon Musk's history with AI, from DeepMind, to OpenAI, to xAI, and his views and vision for general AI
- Is AI enough to increase your productivity | StackOverflow Blog
- What AI is good at and what's not, specifically for coding
- There's more productivity than code faster: automation, share knowledge, good processes, and empowering people
- 4000 of my closest friends | Cat and Girl
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- On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train Midjourney
But I can't even get cartoons to most people for free, now. Without doing unpaid work for the profit-making companies...
- On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train Midjourney
- I worry our Copilot is leaving some passengers behind | Josh Collinsworth
- Copilot suggesting JavaScript when simple HTML works, harming website accessibility
- Whose responsibility to safeguard AI generated code, considering its abundance
- The difference between web search that is an active task with options to choose from, versus AI that is passive consumption with zero context given
- A few social media influencers are shaping AI
- Papers shared by 2 curators gets 2-3 times more citation counts
- The consequence of a few influencers have outsized effect on the research industry
- HN discussion on Devin: AI software engineer
- What does it mean to create AI product, what problems are they solving?
- Plentiful, high-paying jobs in the age of AI
- Because compute resource is limited, comparative advantage and opportunity cost exist, human always have a job
- What I learned from looking at 900 most popular open source AI tools
- The owners of repos, the speed of adoption, China's OSS ecosystem, other stats
- Meta's Open Source AI Ambitions
- Two possible worlds:
- Value accrues to the models: foundation models are different and have high switching costs, like cloud providers
- Value accrues to the applications: models are substitutable for building better applications
- Meta is an application company, and they are betting on the 2nd scenario
- OpenAI is building iOS and Meta is trying to build Android
- Two possible worlds: