“※ ChatGPT Survey: Performance on NLP datasets”
Related to what I noted recently about these large foundational models being technically flawed. Turns out ChatGPT isn’t actually that good at natural language tasks compared to simpler models.
“SoK: On the Impossible Security of Very Large Foundation Models”
I’ve only had a quick read of this preprint but it manages to both pull together many of the issues with large language models I’ve seen raised in other papers and give them a solid, reasoned foundation
‘Statement from the listed authors of Stochastic Parrots on the “AI pause” letter’
“AI is going to make teaching worse, but not in the way everyone thinks - Charles Kenneth Roberts”
“Buzzfeed Has Begun Publishing Articles Generated by A.I. — Pixel Envy”
Predictably, the articles are even worse than Buzzfeed’s usual.
“The Impact of AI on Developer Productivity: Evidence from GitHub Copilot”
I can spot at least four serious flaws in this at a glance
But all you need to know is that most of the authors work for Microsoft or Github
“Manton Reece - Introducing Micro.blog podcast transcripts”
One of the good things to come out of the current AI bubble are improved automatic transcripts.
“The problem with artificial intelligence? It’s not artificial or intelligent”
The ultimate risk of not retiring terms such as “artificial intelligence” is that they will render the creative work of intelligence invisible, while making the world more predictable and dumb
“AI and the American Smile: How AI misrepresents culture through a facial expression”
Years ago, I had a go at explaining to somebody that AI colourisation inevitably erased variation and minorities out of history. AI-generated images are that x1000. Everything becomes American.
“Code, not Chat, in Generative AI”
I think the seeming effectiveness of AI-assisted coding is leading many coders to assume that it’s as useful in other jobs, which I think is a big mistake.
“Types in JavaScript With Zod and JSDoc - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
Definitely an approach I’d like to try out in my projects.
“JavaScript import maps are now supported cross-browser”
Now all we need are module workers in Firefox.
You see a fashion co revealing their racism and ignorance. I see a multinational attempting a risk-free “AI stock bump” without compromising their processes with untested tech and instead stumbling into a gloriously stupid PR disaster that reveals them to be racist and dumb
“The Online Photographer: How Is TOP Doing? (Blog Note)”
Looks like all of the old photography mainstays, or what remains of them, aren’t doing so well.
“Peerless Whisper – Eric’s Archived Thoughts”
Transcription and captioning is exactly the sort of thing we should be using these systems for.
“The machines won’t save your design system”
We have too much confidence in our ability to make technology better, and not enough respect for its ability to make our lives worse.
Good overview of the pending cases. And, as it points out, EU-based lawsuits are likely to follow.
It’s in the nature of social media discourse to diverge into extremes. So, it shouldn’t have surprise me to see so many people just decide that Adobe is outright lying when it says that it isn’t training its AI on user data.
But it did.