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Pledge Drive Season Is Upon Us
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Stochastic Parrots: A Close Reading 🎯🦜
This post offers up a close reading of a section of the Stochastic Parrots paper, to make sense of an increasingly contested analogy. The reading is my interpretation, which draws from the text in the 2021 paper by Bender, Gebru, McMillan-Major and (S)Mitchell. This year, Bender and Mitchell
Meet the Radical Intentionalists
Latest on "Rogue AI" (from today and up until now...) One of the challenges of the current debates around AI is whose narratives we are forced to argue from. 1). The well-funded "AI safety" contingent (sometimes called "Doomers") which focuses on the harms
Models Don't Go Rogue
Stochastic Flocks & Cybersecurity 'Pandemonium' 💡This essay was drafted from my appearance on Mél Hogan's podcast, The Data Fix, discussing the OpenAI / Hugging Face hack. Embedded below or find it on your podcast services here. OpenAI put out its full technical report on the Hugging Face
The System From Nowhere
When Accountability Goes Rogue 💡I recently spoke with Dr. Zena Assaad for her podcast, Responsible Bytes. Video is above, below is an essay adapted from the conversation. "The system from nowhere" is a way of talking about AI systems that excludes its origin as a consciously, human-designed