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Companies like Scale AI and Surge AI have built large networks of people to generate and annotate data, including P h D researchers solving problems in maths or biology. One executive at a leading AI startup estimates this is costing AI labs hundreds of millions of dollars per year.
||Jovan|| Check these companies as interesting data model for annotations.
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The main points from this article - start of Llama3 - high-quality textual data will run dry from the Internet in 2026 - development of 'multimodal' capabilities. - SaleAI and SurgeAI are doing annotations - life is more compelx from clear-cut decisions.
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Epoch AI , a research outfit, estimates the well of high-quality textual data on the public internet will run dry by 2026.
Need for smart data.
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flow of information and energy are critical for global economy. In this field there are battles between China and USA. this battle will affect global economy for 1.2% of globagl GDP.
China leads in EVs and green eocnomy, while it is weak in chipmaking. US export control seems to slow.
Next battle will be in quantum and sensing technologies.
A Summary: The ongoing tech wars between the United States and China, which began during the Trump administration and continue under Joe Biden, are having significant global implications. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimates that the elimination of high-tech trade between the two countries could cost as much as $1 trillion annually, equivalent to 1.2% of global GDP. The battles are primarily taking place in the chipmaking and green technology sectors.
The US is actively encouraging the expansion of chip production within its borders, providing subsidies to companies like Taiwan's TSMC and South Korea's Samsung. It also maintains high tariffs on Chinese solar panels and electric vehicles (EVs). China, on the other hand, has become a global leader in green technology with companies like Longi, CATL, and BYD, but it faces obstacles in the chipmaking industry due to US restrictions on chipmaking technology imports.
While the focus has recently been on app-related disputes, such as pressuring Chinese owners to sell platforms and removing certain apps from app stores, the real battle lies in the control of chipmaking and energy technologies. The risks and consequences of this tech war are significant, including a potential loss of focus on critical areas, strained relationships with Japan and Europe, slower economic growth, and the potential fragmentation of global information and energy-technology industries.
The Biden administration has followed a relatively predictable approach to China and technology, but a more aggressive campaign by the Trump administration could lead to worse outcomes for all parties involved. It is crucial to monitor the shifting dynamics of the tech wars, the impact on chipmaking and green technology sectors, and the potential consequences on the global economic landscape.
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The Senate requested Tik-Tok to be sold by ByteDance. China's government, who is shareholder by ByteDance, refused to seel shares.
TikTok will challenge the Senate's decisions in the court on the basis of the First Amendment and freedon of spreech.
The result of this challenge will have two major impacts: - content governance of other social media platforms; - follow-up by other countries who are likely to follow US example as, for example, Europe did in the case of Huawei and chip-export.
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AI s are trained on vast quantities of human-made work
||Andrej|| Please follow-up on this. It is relevant for our course for Kuwait and their linguistical projects.
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Dobar table, prosiri je sa Governance and Norms
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This paper presents Climinator, a novel AI-based tool designed to automate the fact-checking of climate change claims. Utilizing an array of Large Language Models (LLMs) informed by authoritative sources like the IPCC reports and peer-reviewed scientific literature, Climinator employs an innovative Mediator-Advocate framework.
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This is an AI model that ChatClimate.ai and WMO have collaborated on building. The Climinator uses a 'mediator-advocate' framework that is quite innovative. I have doubts about the efficacy of this framework, but I thought it could be something of inspiration to the AI lab if we ever want to build an array of models capable of debating with each other and coming to a conclusion.
Might be an interesting framework for us to try out, for example, in the following scenario: Our moderator is a diplomatic-text-finetuned LLM; our advocate 1 is an LLM based on GDC-related documents (via RAG) and our advocate 2 is an LLM fed with real-life expert interactions during our events (via RAG or finetuning). Then, we can give an overall prompt to the moderator to ask advocate 1 and 2 to find consensus on a GDC draft.||sorina||
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Op-ed Writing: Tips and Tricks
Tips for op-ed writing
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The Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and Hebrew-language media outlet Local Call reported recently that the Israeli army was isolating and identifying thousands of Palestinians as potential bombing targets using an AI-assisted targeting system called Lavender.
Source
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Useful text on AI in meetings.
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Nigerian officials are kicking off legal proceedings against Binance and two of its senior executives, accusing them of money laundering and tax evasion.
||ArvinKamberi|| Arvine evo teksta o Binance i Nigeriji.
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Meta’s recent decision to shut down Facebook News, which was a source of revenues for many content providers, as potentially hurting the economics of the news industry, thus lowering the quality of journalism and, by extension, undermining the political process.
Attack on journalism
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TTD has rolled out an alternative open-source technology, known as Unified ID 2.0 ( UID 2), that it hopes will improve on cookies as an industry standard.
Highly relevant standard.
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The TechPlomacy Approach
Description of Techplomacy
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||Jovan|| Here is a good summary of the current developments in cryptocurrency. It is a bit PR, but it provides a useful overall summary. A few questions for us: - Does DW covers these developments? - Is there anything we can do to follow systematically this field as WSJ indicates or Atlantic Council presents effectively https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/cbdctracker/
Soruce of article: https://deloitte.wsj.com/riskandcompliance/decentralized-finance-may-transform-how-money-is-managed-b443f30e?mod=Deloitte_riskcomp_wsjarticle10_eNL_SSFY24
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Central Bank Digital Currency Tracker – Atlantic Council
Excellent link https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/cbdctracker/
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regulatory uncertainties
Key aspects.
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With tokenization and programmable money, transactions can be executed instantly, anytime, and from anywhere.
What about national regulations?
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It could significantly enhance payroll processes, providing a way to compensate people on a more ongoing or recurring basis, such as per job for gig workers or per day for salaried workers.
Payment for micro-activites.
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These assets can include securities, loans, public and private funds, hedge funds and money markets, private equity, environmental credits, real estate, commodities, ownership rights, voting rights, and content licensing.
What can be tokenized?
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The Internal Revenue Service has also developed guidance on digital assets, treating them as property for federal tax purposes.
It is critical that cryptoassets can be taxed.
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130 jurisdictions globally are either launching, piloting, developing, or researching central bank digital currencies (CBDCs),
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Crypto-Assets Regulation
Do we have this regulation?
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provided comprehensive guidance for how authorities can address the macroeconomic and financial stability risks
Do we have this documents?
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“Supercharging the way money is used suggests new risks and benefits, and the rapid acceleration of AI could help accelerate the adoption of digital assets.”
Combining blockchain and AI.
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The permissioned blockchain is designed to provide interoperability and control for powering synchronized financial markets to enable secure, controlled exchanges of data and value.
Exchange of tokens
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blockchain, smart contracts, and the tokenization of assets.
Technologies behind this shift.
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commercial adoption, regulation, and tokenization,
Major processes
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Numerous countries are setting in place regulatory frameworks
||ArvinKamberi|| Do we have survey of current regulations and processes per country? Do we have, for example, world map with indication of countries that adopted regulations of bitcoin, etc.?
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they have the potential to replace certain services that today are provided by intermediaries such as banks, stock exchanges, or brokers.
Where are we today with promisses of blockchain technologies?
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One solution would be for countries to work together, to learn from each other and create minimum global standards.
Role for WHO.
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The present policy brief contains suggestions for practical steps to fulfil our long-standing com-mitment to meet the demands of the present in a way that safeguards the interests of future gen-erations and preserves their ability to effectively enjoy all human rights. These include:
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The Summit of the Future in 2024 is an opportunity to agree on multilateral solutions for a better tomorrow, strengthening global governance for both present and future genera-tions
@jovan This is important to know
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this month bought a nuclear-powered data centre
news worthy!
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He says the mightiest Blackwell system, known pithily as GB 200 NVL 72, can train a model larger than Chat GPT using about a quarter as much electrical power as the best available processors.
Saving electricity
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Moreover, Nvidia’s larger integrated systems contain around 600,000 components, many of which come from China.
Risk of China-USA tensions.
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Crucially, they will rely on (mostly rented) Nvidia GPU s, further tying customers into the firm’s hardware-software ecosystem.
Locing users with software-hardware
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It believes that many businesses will soon move on from toying with Chat GPT to deploying their own gen AI s.
Push for bottom-up AI
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“accelerated-computing”,
||sorina|| It is a new term.
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Cyber security training for the Board of Directors
Useful offer
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Useful corporate impressium
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The more serious problem is that Iran’s and Russia’s economies are too similar to be natural trading partners. Of the top 15 categories of goods that each exports, nine are shared; ten of their 15 biggest imports are also the same.
How to view economic complementarity.
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Iranian and Russian ministers have revived negotiations to extend the International North-South Transport Corridor ( INSTC ), a 7,200km route connecting Russia to the Indian Ocean via Iran.
Important route for expert from Rssia.
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Last July Iran became the ninth member of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation,
Participation of Iran in various regional cooperations.
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In December imports of Russian crude reached 2.2m b/d, or 19% of China’s total, from 1.5m b/d two years ago. In the second half of last year, Iran’s exports to China averaged 1m b/d, a 150% rise from the same period in 2021.
increase of oil export to China.
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Experts expect some inference to start moving from specialist graphics-processing units ( GPU s), which are Nvidia’s forte, to general-purpose central processing units ( CPU s)
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Experts expect some inference to start moving from specialist graphics-processing units ( GPU s), which are Nvidia’s forte, to general-purpose central processing units ( CPU s) like those used in laptops and smartphones, which are AMD ’s and Intel’s.
So what does this mean in practical terms? In Nvidia Loosing ground because the more common (?) general purpose CPUs become relevant for AI? ||JovanK||
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A good summary of tech industry according to the layers.
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Third, and most important, big tech has the greatest potential to control every layer of the stack, from chips to applications.
Real power of tech companies.
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Hippocratic AI , has trained its model on data from exams to enter medical school, to give accurate medical advice.
Hippocratic AI
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Nixtla developed Time GPT , a model for financial forecasting.
financial forecast
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to respond to queries (“inference”, in tech-speak)
||sorina|| 'Inference' is 'query' in tech speak.
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Technological breakthroughs tend to elevate new tech giants.
Each technological breakthrough raised some companies.
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Four layers of AI companies.
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to get a sense of which businesses are real winners in the AI boom
Important for anchoring AI developments in reality.
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||sorina||||MariliaM|| Here is an interesting article on Pope's Message on AI arguing that antrophocentrism created a lot of distortion in adopting technology. We have to discover ourselves and 'others' in order to deal properly with technology. ||Jovan||
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Asking yourself what the world will be like tomorrow means asking yourself what youwant and decide to do today.
||Jovan||||anitalATdiplomacy.edu|| For our course on future
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the expression was coined to be catchy andvague, as John McCarthy, its creator, tells us.
Whi even term artificial intelligence is misleading
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AI study of corner kicks.
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An excellent studies of the limits of counter-intuitive answers to economic and societal problems.
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A ban on TikTok could open the door to many of these apps being consigned to the digital dustbin.
Chinese apps in USa may follow similar develpment
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The 30 biggest Chinese video-game makers account for 18% of the industry’s global sales outside China.
Chinese share of video-gaming market.
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The firm that makes them, Joyy, is based in Singapore, just like TikTok.
Most Chinese tech companies are based in Singapore.
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“ AI factories”,
||sorina|| New terminology in EU is 'AI factory'
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n 2018 the EU launched Euro HPC , a bloc-wide project to expand number-crunching capacity. The outfit is set to spend nearly €8bn ($8.7bn) between 2018 and 2027 on a dozen or so new supercomputers.
EU's high computing facility. ||sorina|| It could be follow-up to our presentaiton to College of Europe.
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46% of Chinese get their news from short-video apps such as Douyin, the domestic form of TikTok which has about 740m active monthly users (China’s population is 1.4bn).
Survey of Chinese social media market
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Just five submarine cables (including one under construction) run up Africa’s west coast between South Africa and Nigeria. Three of these were knocked offline on March 14th.
Major disruption
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||VladaR|| Ukraine war was somehow off the media focus. Here is a good summary what is going on currently.
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Nvidia’s AI chips, also known as graphics processor units ( GPU s) or “accelerators”, were initially designed for video games.
||sorina|| This paragraph explains well Nvidia's AI chps.
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Since January 2023 the chipmaker’s share price has surged by almost 450%.
Search of Nvidia's shares.
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could be considered a Hindu. Jains and Buddhists could be. But Muslims and Christians, as adherents of “non-Indic” religions, could not be part of the Hindu nation unless they renounced their faith.
Who are Hindu?
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By contrast, computinghardware has a finite throughput: if one actor is using some computing power, anotheractor cannot use that same computing power at the same time
||sorina|| following questons during GDC training, it seems to be relevant answer.
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Concentration of the AI Chip Supply Chain
useful graphics as illustration of development of micro-processors.
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The recent advances in Chinese chipmakingcapacity, such as the fabrication of a 7nm chip25for Huawei phones (Liu 2023) haveincreased concerns about the controls accelerating China’s progress towards AI chipsupply chain independence and thus diminishing U.S. capacity to control access tocompute.
There are two theories: one that China should have kept inderdependent and integrated in global market. second is of export-control which prevailed.
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The three keytechnical inputs to producing AI capabilities are data, algorithms, and compute, alsoreferred to as the “AI triad”
AI triad
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First, governance of computecan help increase regulatoryvisibilityinto AI capabilities and use; second, it can steerAI progress by changing theallocationof resources toward safe and beneficial usesof AI; third, it can enhanceenforcementof prohibitions against reckless or maliciousdevelopment or use.
There area of governance of Ai computing.
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Relative to other key inputs to AI (data andalgorithms), AI-relevant compute is a particularly effective point of intervention: it isdetectable,excludable, andquantifiable, and is produced via an extremelyconcentrated supply chain.
it is easy to detect.
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Project managers will not be going away, but they will need to embrace these changes and take advantage of the new technologies.
Future roles of project managers.
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Because AI is ignorant of silos, knows no boundaries within the company, has no limits to its reading capacity or attention span, and is immune from internal politics, it can enable strategic intelligence staff — including those working in marketing intelligence, strategy, and strategic management accounting — to breach a company’s internal knowledge walls.
Ai as tool for overcoming silos.
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to real-time inference of otherwise hidden information about a company from publicly disclosed documents such as annual reports, quarterly financials, press releases, statements, and social media posts.
How to identify 'hidden infomration'
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“Is there any statement of strategic relevance for the company XYZ in the following paragraph?
Prompt
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to Uncover Hidden Information
how to uncover hidden information.
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AI can become the watchful eye that spots useful insights in the field of competitive intelligence.
Termi is 'competitive intelligence'.
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growing problem of information overload regarding markets and competitors,
AI can help finding relevant information in a lot of information.
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AI is great at identifying patterns and providing predictions for well-formulated problems, but it fails to practice emotional intelligence and exercise moral or ethical judgment.
What is AI good at?
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to balance privacy with security, trust with safety, helpfulness with respect for others’ autonomy, and, of course, values with short-term financial metrics.
Trade-offs
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Norbert Wiener, the father of cybernetics, proposed a similar idea in a seminal 1960 Science article, launching an entire academic discipline focused on ensuring that automated tools incorporate the values of their creators.
Start of AI and ethics
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Overanalyzing
How to do overanalysing?
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Rumination is best described as a mental loop where you dwell on past events, particularly negative or distressing ones.
Wht is rumintion?
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Teams in the experimental groups could use ChatGPT during both ideation phases, and they were encouraged to train the tool on the problem by inputting material from the information sheets.
How to generate ideas?
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problem–centric, people–first, and principle–driven.
3P APPROACH
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The snail’s pace of research and publishing is badly suited to Silicon Valley’s speed.
It is also about books and writing.
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is both an insider and an outsider.
Like Diplo with diplomacy.
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Qatar and the UAE increased
Increase of diplomatic missions.
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Western diplomacy must seek to counter Russian disinformation across the global south.
||VladaR|| Most of EU projects on digital/tech will be along these lines. It will be tricky time to preserve neutrality.
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If the West tried to use secondary sanctions to force the world to comply, it would backfire, leading some countries to abandon the American-led financial system.
Risk of sanctoins
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Russia’s economy has been re-engineered. Oil exports bypass sanctions and are shipped to the global south. Western brands from bmw to h&m have been replaced with Chinese and local substitutes. In textbooks and the media a seductive narrative of nationalism and Russian victimhood is promulgated.
Russia's survival formula
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Christopher Myers of Johns Hopkins University is a fan of informal storytelling as a way of passing on tacit knowledge.
The best way to pass tacit knowledge
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Working alongside experienced colleagues is the best way to transfer tacit knowledge but it is not always possible.
The bet way to capture knowledge is through cognitive proximity.
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Startups and corporations are already designing software to make it easy to switch between Open AI ’s current top model, GPT -4, and alternatives.
Important to be ready to switch between different platforms.
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In January America’s Federal Trade Commission launched an antitrust probe into Open AI ’s deal with Microsoft. Regulators in Britain and the EU are considering similar moves.
First anti-trust moves agains OpenAI
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If the probability distribution of the words is flat, ie many words have similar likelihoods of being chosen, this means that there is less certainty as to which is most likely.
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One solution is retrieval augmented generation ( RAG ), which splits the job of the AI model into two parts: retrieval and generation
||Jovan|| Good description of RAG
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This is a later stage of training in which the model’s weights, which encode statistical relationships between the words and phrases in the training data, are updated for a specific task
Important of weights.
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he fundamental problem is that language models are probabilistic, while truth is not.
good point
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Many countries are more than happy to play both sides—receiving Chinese investment and intermediate goods, and exporting finished products to America.
Position of many countries.
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On February 20th Silo AI , a Finnish firm, unveiled a new LLM that is even more open than Mistral’s, furnishing information about the data on which it is trained and the software that did the job.
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to divulge its data recipe
||sorina|| It seems that battle was not around open-source but around data provisions.
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This places them among the 100 or so people worldwide who really know how to train cutting-edge models.
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“It’s no longer about being bigger—it’s about being creative and being fast,”
Key for AI developments.
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in establishing an internal “data and analytics culture”, which plenty of businesses find stubbornly difficult to nurture.
Important aspect of AI impact on data culture
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three big categories: window-dressing, tools for workers with low to middling skills, and those for a firm’s most valuable employees.
3 types of use cases.
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more than 300 AI use cases in production today”
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n February only about 5% of American firms of all sizes said they used AI . A further 7% of firms plan to adopt it within six months (see chart).
Little use of AI in businesses.
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According to a recent survey from the Boston Consulting Group ( BCG ), a majority of executives said it will take at least two years to “move beyond the hype” around AI .
2 years to move beyond hype.
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The spread of the typewriter put some workers out of a job: “With the aid of this little machine an operator can accomplish more correspondence in a day than half a dozen clerks can with the pen, and do better work,” said an observer in 1888.
Observation about use of typewritter.
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The Global AI Index is underpinned by 111 indicators, collected from 28 different public and private data sources, and 62 governments. These are split across seven sub-pillars: Talent, Infrastructure, Operating Environment, Research, Development, Government Strategy and Commercial.
Elements for AI analysis
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However, in our research, we found 35 countries who have made any significant stride in GenAI ever.
Geography of AI
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TikTok has also injected welcome competition into the social-media market. Six of last year’s ten most-downloaded apps came from Meta, Facebook’s owner. TikTok, which beat them to the top spot, has brought in a wave of innovation. Consumers everywhere are the winners.
||sorina|| An interesting economic angle to Tik-Tok saga from the Economist. We will see if security of economic angle will prevail ultimately. This is also battle between geopolitics and geoeconomics. TikTok saga is more important than simple market access issue.
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True, it hoovers up users’ data. But there is no evidence that it takes more than it claims (or indeed more than rivals such as Facebook).
||MariliaM|| an interesting comment from the Economist
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if ministers took all the advice offered on the National Tutoring Service, accepted it fully, and then it failed, the blame would rest firmly on the civil servants offering that advice.
failure of advice.
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Political impartiality has been a key principle of the civil service since the famous Northcote-Trevelyan report of 1854, the foundation document for the way civil servants should be appointed and should operate once in post.
Relevance of UK civil service to the UN.
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Explainable AI
Explainable AI
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Remarks of President Joe Biden — State of the Union Address As Prepared for Delivery
The State of the Union is deep rooted in the context of American elections. References to domestic and foreign policy seek to highlight the difference between Biden and Trump, on issues such as women's reproductive rights, and NATO and Ukraine. Domestic policy is the core, and Biden speaks to sectors of American society - middle class, workers, women, transgender. The references to technology are few. Importance of CHIPS Act for R&D and jobs, two sentences on AI (harness the promise, protect from peril, ban impersonation). Protecting advanced technologies from China.
||AndrijanaG|| not sure that there is enough 'digital' meat to analyse for DW. Pinging you just so you know that we screened the digital issues in it ;) ||JovanK|| No big focus on foreign policy. Most attention in this area given to Israel-Gaza, which is a topic that also speaks to domestic audience. Highligthing as well that Trump's victory is a security threat to Europe.
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Thanks to my Chips and Science Act the United States is investing more in research and development than ever before.
Importance of Chips Act for R&D and jobs.
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And our trade deficit with China
Foreign policy-China. Brief and light. The point of the speech is really domestic policy.
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Harness the promise of A.I. and protect us from its peril. Ban A.I. voice impersonation and more!
Two sentences on AI.
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I’ve made sure that the most advanced American technologies can’t be used in China’s weapons.
Protecting critical and emerging technologies.
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Creating stability in the Middle East also means containing the threat posed by Iran.
Foreign policy -Iran
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As we manage challenges at home, we’re also managing crises abroad including in the Middle East.
Foreign policy. Gaza. Hamas is to blame, Israel should do a better job protecting civilians. Cease-fire.
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new emergency authority to temporarily shut down the border
Another "emergency". The US is now governed under emergency situations and executive orders. Not so democratic...
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Look, I’m a capitalist. If you want to make a million bucks – great! Just pay your fair share in taxes. A fair tax code is how we invest in the things – that make a country great, health care, education, defense, and more. But here’s the deal. The last administration enacted a $2 Trillion tax cut that overwhelmingly benefits the very wealthy and the biggest corporations and exploded the federal deficit.
Taxation of large companies.
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the wealthy and biggest corporations no longer get all the breaks.
Workers vs. capital. Indirectly also tech companies?
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Wall Street didn’t build this country! The middle class built this country! And unions built the middle class!
White collar vs. blur collar again. Quite strong in his speech.
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Well instead of having to import semiconductor chips, which America invented I might add, private companies are now investing billions of dollars to build new chip factories here in America! Creating tens of thousands of jobs many of them paying over $100,000 a year and don’t require a college degree.
Technology does not only create white collar jobs - speaks to American workers
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my purpose tonight is to both wake up this Congress, and alert the American people that this is no ordinary moment either.
Comparison between the present moment and the Nazi advances in Europe leading to WW2. Message to the Europeans. Further down below, it is clearly stated that if the US walks aways (following Trump's victory) Europe is at risk.
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The model to be used by the Albanian government will translate into Albanian and provide a detailed overview of what and where changes need to be made to local legislation to align with EU rules. It will also provide an analysis of the impact of all measures and changes, which usually require many experts and a lot of time.
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“tea” and “sea” would be farther apart because they have dissimilar meanings and are not used together often, even though they have similar spelling.
They are not used often together.
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Types of vector embeddings
What type of embedding we have in our vector database: word, sentence or document. Could we have embedding of all three?
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Computing Power and the Governance of Artificial Intelligence
@jovan @sorina This article (published just a week ago) was a new research on regulating frontier AI models by imposing restrictions and safety measures on AI chips.
I previously shared a similar article called 'How to Catch a Chinchilla', which expresses preliminary ideas of this one.
The article is focused on regulating the 'hardware' part of frontier models both because it's more visible and easier to track/locate and because, as far as the current way AI is built are concerned, development of advanced AI models still rely on securing a good number of AI chips.
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||sorina|| End of one era or CERN and Geneva. It never happened in the worst time o the Cold War that scientists were sanctioned.
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Read the texts themselves: Seneca, Caesar, or Marcus Aurelius, when possible.
Important
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By that text, titled “Promotion of inclusive and effective international tax cooperation at the United Nations” (document A/C.2/78/L.18/Rev.1), the Assembly would stress that efforts in international tax cooperation should be universal in approach and scope and fully consider the different needs and capacities of all States, in particular developing countries and countries in special situations. The Committee approved it by a recorded vote of 125 in favour to 48 against, with 9 abstentions (Armenia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Iceland, Mexico, Norway, Peru, Türkiye, United Arab Emirates).
Vote on drafting UN Taxation Treaty.
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Following the UN Secretary-General’s report earlier this year highlighting the exclusionary nature of the OECD’s tax work, however, we now see a most welcome formal challenge.
Interesting document
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by despite the tendency for multi-stakeholder processes to water things down”
||sorina|| it is interesting aspect that multi-stakeholder processes are used to water things down.
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a free Assistant in ChatGPT called AI Diagrams.
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I'm struggling with getting to the group page. every time I log in I land on the textus page.
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one common definition of weight is the importance given to individual input features when training a machine learning model
What is exactly weight? There are two explanatons in this paragraph. ||JovanNj||||anjadjATdiplomacy.edu||
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Factors such as the intense US-China tech rivalry and the escalating chip embargo on Chinese AI firms further diminish the government’s incentive to impose strict regulation.
||MariliaM|| This article discusses AI governance in China. It has linkages between digital and security as you are focusing on.
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distributing power, catalyzing innovation, and ensuring transparency
Three reasons for open source AI.
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n the EU, open foundation models trained with fewer than 1025floating point operations (a measure of the amount of compute expended) appear to be exempted under the recently negotiated AI Act.
EU AI Act on open source foundational models.
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For each key finding below, more granular response categories are presented in the main text, along with demographic breakdowns of interest.
Why America was afraid of AI in Spring 2023.
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Can we experiment with this method?
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LangChain and LlamaIndex.
Are we using any of these methods?
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a time-weighted approach would help us retrieve the most recent document.
Can we use this for updates, courses, blog posts?
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we use list comprehension to get text embeddings for all text chunks.
||anjadjATdiplomacy.edu|| does it mean that we get at the end one vectoral value or whole text (not only text chunk).?
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it is crucial to split the document into smaller chunks so that it's more effective to identify and retrieve the most relevant information in the retrieval process later.
Can we split it into smaller chanks? Ideally it should be on the level of sentence or paragraph in the text. Can we use some of HTML markers/code to identify beinning/end of para or sentence.
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The Act takes a “risk approach”, i.e. it conditions intervention on the basis of the expected “risk” of the application – but not a market power approach.
EU AI Act ignores market power risks.
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Customers don't want to go to two places to find information and get answers.
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as the Federal Government, aim to coordinate our international digital policy even more closely with our partners
Continuation of block-thinking, divides and paralysis.
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value-based technology partnerships
This says it all about partnerships. Either you are like-minded and democratic, or, partnerships will be limited.
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same time, we are encouraging the commitment and representation of like-minded partner countries of the Global South in relevant Internet governance forums as well as the reciprocal capacity building and expansion
More participation and capacity building. BUT, for like-minded.
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We use digitalization to tackle global challenges
Although the layout masks it a bit, much more attention and space were given to resilience than to sustainability.
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The high complexity of global value and supply chains requires close collaboration and specialization at EU level and with partners and allies worldwide
Friendshoring
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EU to connect additional partners to existing infrastructures and make space-based data, services and products accessible to them.
EU Global Gateways?
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We reject any political influence that runs counter to our values
I though standards were a technical-only area! Just being ironic...
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We also take into account at all times the increasing security and defence policy dimensions of data policy
Securitization of data flows. ||MariliaM||
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The deteriorating geopolitical environment increases the urgency of constantly considering also other dimensions, particularly security and defence policy, when dealing with regulatory issue
This creates the link to coordinate with EU Economic security strategy, and with EU and German China strategies.
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o promoting digital skills along the entire education chain
Focus on education.
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to counteract the possible leakage of critical technologies and knowledge.
This is 'Chinese norm'
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with our values and interests.
A strong focus on 'our' in values and interests. It remains to be seen if 'others' relate to those who have different values and itnerests (but not confrontational) or only to those who directly oppose 'our' values and interests. It will be key distinction in this 'value-based' approach. Does it include cooperation with China?
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improving geo-redundancy.
Interesting new concept. What would it mean in practice?
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the expansion and protection of submarine data cables, terrestrial optical fibres and new satellite constellations
Critical infrastructure.
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democratic partners
is there any indication of criteria (e.g. elections, free press)? Is there any list of those partners?
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It opens the space for other format such as multilateral (unlike previously mentioned digital networking).
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innovative, secure, trustworthy, human-centric and sustainable artificial intelligence (AI).
to follow this phrase in AI debates. It could emerge as 5-pillars slogan for AI governance.
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in particular through our cooperation in ‘Team Europe’.
Does it mean that cooperation with Africa, and the neighbours will be more pushed via EU-channels, including 'Team Europe'?
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we are enhancing bilateral cooperation with partners who share our values and who are important political, economic and regulatory players in the digital sphere.
Is this AND or OR condition between two elements: - 'share our values' - important players
For example, does China fit into this criterioon?
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We consider the multi-stakeholder approach essential for global digital networking.
What is 'global digital networking'? Is it cybersecurity as well? What about AI?
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We want to avoid duplicate structures, which make a broad-based and inclusive participation of stakeholders in international bodies harder
Highly relevant link between duplucate structire as a way that prevent inclusive participation.
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economic interdependencies in the area of digitalization do not adversely affect our security.
An interesting interplay between interdependence and security with a possible shift closer to security.
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Especially in the Global South, standards can be a way to remove obstacles to development, promote innovations and stimulate economic growth in a sustainable manner.
It is the far-fetched link. Standards can be useful. But, developing countries have so many other obstacles (access, funding) apart from standards.
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We advocate for corresponding binding rules on digital trade at international level. Moreover, we support the efforts of the EU with regard to rules on digital trade, in particular in trade agreements. We are coordinating closely with the other EU Member States and the European Commission in international negotiations. We also take into account the challenges faced by the countries of the Global South.
Interesting! There is no mention of WTO e-commerce negotiations explicitly which was a pillar of Germany's e-commerce and data policies. Does Germany follow US shift away from data negotiations in WTO? It can be followed by statements during WTO Ministerial conference.
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he FAIR principle (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) for data.
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the concept of Data Free Flow with Trust (DFFT)
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We are promoting broad-based options for participation in order to make digital policy decision-making processes and digital participation as inclusive as possible.
A possible support of Diplo?
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This includes our commitment in the G7, the Group of Twenty (G20), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI), the Council of Europe, the World Trade Organization (WTO), international financial institutions such as the World Bank and the UN, including the ITU. We coordinate closely with the other EU Member States and the European Commission.
Key global partners of Germany.
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net neutrality is an overriding principle in the Internet ecosystem.
Almost forgotten concept.
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or a global, open, free and secure Internet
We should monitor how many countries use this 4-pillar phrase in their strategies, speeches, etc.
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Russia also ranked 38th out 193 countries in the latest AI -readiness index by Oxford Insights, a consultancy; America came first.
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Yandex, Russia’s search giant, has integrated an LLM , Yandex GPT -2, into its virtual-assistant service, known as “Alice”.
||JovanNj|| Alice - Russian GPt. Do they have API?
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Many in Europe hope the DSA will ensure major social media companies are held more accountable for how they protect elections from disinformation.
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Another Hanna paper, presented at the Resistance AI workshop, urges the machine learning community to go beyond scale when considering how to address systemic social issues and asserts that resistance to scale thinking is needed.
From what I observed, the notion of 'scaling an algorithm' always results in high decontextualization of data and outputs (i.e., training data is taken out of the context from which it was derived, and the outputs are applied to various contexts instead of merely the one the model was trained for).
And a huge problem for the lack of reflections in this regard was, in my opinion, the tech community's blatant refusal to think about the systemic, societal risks of their models--they framed it as the problem of policymakers and ethicists, and that the social can be separately mitigated apart from the technical conception of the models.
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“We argue that fixes that focus narrowly on improving datasets by making them more representative or more challenging might miss the more general point raised by these critiques, and we’ll be trapped in a game of dataset whack-a-mole rather than making progress, so long as notions of ‘progress’ are largely defined by performance on datasets,” the paper reads. “Should this come to pass, we predict that machine learning as a field will be better positioned to understand how its technology impacts people and to design solutions that work with fidelity and equity in their deployment contexts.”
I suspected that the current AI regulations discussions are missing out on long-term risks that certain paradigms in the current AI development space might impose; one is the predominant idea that we can resolve fairness by simply codifying fairness metrics and making the latter a requirement of a model to 'hit the market'.
This logic fails to challenge what this paragraph is trying to say here: ensuring fairness goes beyond the idea of getting a 'fair dataset' that performs well; it concerns what the deployment context is, how developers and users are to interact with the AI model, and how does the model become interwoven in the lives of the people working around it.
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