Responsible and Ethical AI with Dr. Rumman Chowdhury | Axe-con 2024 Keynote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccCZ4FxruMU

#ethic #a11y #ai #disability #axecon

Responsible and Ethical AI with Dr. Rumman Chowdhury | Axe-con 2024

^YouTube

Watching this with interest: first #AI (ChatGPT) based screen
reader:https://www.typeahead.ai/

This could change the screen reader paradigm and I'll try the #Windows version when it's available, but I worry that using it for work and remaining #GDPR compliant will not be possible.

This also heralds a much bigger paradigm change - the UI for everyone will change and the GUI as we know it may well disappear.

I always enjoy opportunities to learn from Audrey Tang - @au - her recent interview in the podcast #YourUndividedAttention is no exception. In "Future-proofing Democracy In the Age of AI with Audrey Tang" raises important questions about #AI & #Democracy. What do we need to do now to help prepare citizens for #DeepFakes. Important to hear about the role #Taiwan is playing in #ResponsibleAI.

2024 is an election year for almost half of the world's population.

https://your-undivided-attention.simplecast.com/episodes/future-proofing-democracy-in-the-age-of-ai-with-audrey-tang-VzOw1vUj

Jakob Nielsen thinks accessibility has failed.

Jakob Nielsen thinks that generative AI will make my experience better.

I think Nielsen needs to think again.
https://tink.uk/nielsen-needs-to-think-again/

#accessibility #a11y #AI

They called him Al Balcon…

#ai #transcription

“I’m a Google Cloud software engineer, and I refuse to build technology that powers genocide [and] apartheid”

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/google-protest-israel/

Watch the others in the room. The assholes who jeer and manhandle the protestors. These are your peers in the tech industry. These are the “acceptable folks” in tech. Fuck these people.

Look at their faces. They know exactly what they’re complict in. Look at their smug smiles. Dickheads each one.

#tech #google #ai #ProjectNimbus #israel #genocide #palestine

Google Protest At Tech Conference Over Israel Contracts

Google engineers protested Google at an Israel tech conference in New York before being thrown out by security.

^{Marlon Ettinger (The Daily Dot)}

"Nvidia shares surge past $700 driven by demand for AI."

LLMs are deep learning layered neural networks of matrices, during forward propagation, inputs are multiplied by weight matrices and the results are added together to produce an output which becomes the next layer's input hence CUDA and floating point arithmetic.

But what if you didn't need multiplication? Seems this news has not reached the market yet. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.11453.pdf

#NVDA #SELL #AI

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* Facebook has AI.
* Google has AI.
* Microsoft has AI.
* Reddit has AI.
* Tumblr has AI.
* WordPress services on their DOT Com has AI.

In 2024, you must assume, any service you cannot download and install yourself, will have AI and will use whatever you write to train an AI.

#Facebook #Reddit #Google #Microsoft #Tumblr #WordPress #AI

Do you have a blog at Wordpress.com? Congrats! You will soon be feeding all your content to an AI, unless you opt-out. Same with Tumblr! (Why I self-host, reason #4711) Source: https://www.404media.co/tumblr-and-wordpress-to-sell-users-data-to-train-ai-tools/ and many more

UPDATE: Seems it already happened. Content from 2014-2023 has already been shared. So your opt-out will just be honoured going forward. If and how already sent content will be handled by the receiving 3rd party after you opt-out remains a mystery

#WordPress #Tumblr #AI #MidJourney

Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools

Internal documents obtained by 404 Media show that Tumblr staff compiled users' data as part of a deal with Midjourney and OpenAI.

^{Samantha Cole (404 Media)}

As more and more social publishing platforms decide to sell user content to the hypercapitalist hyperfunded AI data ingestion machines, I'm seeing people in agonies over feeling the need to delete, for example, a beloved Tumblr blog with a decade's effort invested.

I feel their pain too keenly to say this at their faces, but all I can think of is my first rule. I coined it before this kind of AI was a thing, but that doesn't make me wrong:

http://www.erosblog.com/2013/06/11/bacchus-first-rule-of-the-internet/

#BacchusFirstRule #POSSE #AI

Bacchus's First Rule Of The Internet - ErosBlog: The Sex Blog

Bacchus's First Rule Of The Internet: Anything worth doing on the internet is worth doing on your own server that you control.

^{Bacchus (ErosBlog: The Sex Blog)}

Last week we fell for a stupid #Gmail hoax.

We'd like to apologize for sharing this image without fact checking first.

Particularly with the rise of #AI it's important that we all stay vigilant & not fall for #FakeNews.

#FreedomOfSpeech matters, but so does the #truth.

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I bet @bagder loves this little gem of #AI auto-created PR! Just 3158 changed files, all have to be reviewed manually now.

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/pull/39754/

Auto generated comments by codemakerai-dev · Pull Request #39754 · spring-projects/spring-boot

Summary This code change adds comments to the entire Spring Boot code base. The content of this PR has been created entirely using a custom fine-tuned AI model. We are conducting large-scale experi...

^GitHub

Thanks Fast Company for featuring Be My AI in this great story about the next #AI wave! 💙

https://www.fastcompany.com/91034315/these-three-companies-show-why-the-next-ai-wave-wont-revolve-around-chatbots

🚩 NVIDIA Stock Price Surges on Latest Quarterly Results

"NVIDIA’s stock market value rose $273 billion in a day. How it rose to AI prominence, by the numbers"
https://apnews.com/article/nvidia-ai-artificial-intelligence-chips-market-value-5bcdc44e27e4647983197a07e1b871c5

#NVIDIA #NVDA #AI

After #AI, quantum computers will be next big thing in tech.

And they'll be able to break currently used email #encryption.

Plus, the NSA already uses "harvest now, decrypt later" strategies.

That's why we at Tuta are working on post-quantum #cryptography. 🔒💪

Read everything you need to know about this amazing journey:
https://tuta.com/blog/post-quantum-cryptography

A Mozilla study of 11 #AI romance chatbots finds that they harvest personal information extensively, and that 10 of them may sell or share the data they collect.

https://gizmodo.com/your-ai-girlfriend-is-a-data-harvesting-horror-show-1851253284

Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show

The privacy mess is troubling because the chatbots actively encourage you to share details that are far more personal than in a typical app.

^{Thomas Germain (Gizmodo)}

Can generative AI help us write accessible code?

In this post on the @TetraLogical blog, I ask Bard (now Gemini), ChatGPT from OpenAI, and Fix My Code from userway for help writing accessible code:
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2024/02/12/can-generative-ai-help-write-accessible-code/

#GenerativeAI #AI #accessibility

Can generative AI help write accessible code? - TetraLogical

Like many inventions before it, Generative AI is changing the way we do things. Like those inventions that went before it, Generative AI is capable of great good and great harm, and like the humans that used those inventions before us, we need to be …

^TetraLogical

Good morning and happy Saturday to all of you here in the #Fediverse

Tell me about your #MorningMoments such as what you hope to accomplish today, what you've already accomplished today or just a funny story of sorts!

I'm not sure what today holds to be honest. Might stay home and relax, might get out of the house for a bit with the wife. We'll figure that out shortly.

#GoodMorning #HappySaturday #AI #Art

I expected something like this after Apple's October #OpenSource AI effort. The potential #accessibility implications are pretty significant here.

Apple partners with University of California researchers to release open-source #AI model #MGIE, which can edit images based on natural language instructions

Apple releases ‘MGIE’, a revolutionary AI model for instruction-based image editing

https://venturebeat.com/ai/apple-releases-mgie-a-revolutionary-ai-model-for-instruction-based-image-editing/

#GenAI #photos #photography

Apple releases ‘MGIE’, a revolutionary AI model for instruction-based image editing

Apple’s MGIE is a revolutionary AI model that can edit images based on natural language instructions, using multimodal large language models to generate expressive and imaginative edits.

^{Michael Nuñez (VentureBeat)}

#AI is used for more than just #ChatGPT 🤖

Algorithms analyze your behavior patterns & can monitor entire populations with little effort. 🔎

We need strong legislation to protect against expansion of the #surveillance state! 🚫🕵️‍♀️

👉 https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2024/02/02/artificial-intelligence-the-new-eyes-of-surveillance/

Some photos from @ed talk on defining open source AI.

#OpenSource #OpenSourceAI #FOSDEM #AI

Fuck-you-Google: always

Google Update Reveals AI Will Start Reading All Your Private Messages
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/01/27/new-details-free-ai-upgrade-for-google-and-samsung-android-users-leaks/

#FuckYouGoogle #privacy #surveillance #AI #Bard #Android

Google Update Reveals AI Will Start Reading All Your Private Messages

New warning as AI suddenly targets billions of private messages on smartphones…

^{Zak Doffman (Forbes)}

A story about these #AI guys who really want to build #AGI

https://redeem-tomorrow.com/general-intelligence

'General Intelligence'

This was the hardest part for outsiders to grasp, even though to him it was the most obvious. He explained, with an indulgent smile, "RATHE works at a speed that is many multiples of our own minds. Orders of magnitude faster, in fact."

^{redeem-tomorrow.com}