Deep learning-guided discovery of an antibiotic targeting Acinetobacter baumannii
and a leggy old fart was he…
From teh internets. Here it seems?
HAL checking in on granny in the kitchen
surveillance
When I see Meredith Whittaker on something on “AI”, I know I’m going to read sense.
Reliably worth listening to.
Here’s the video that article is taken from:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2023-06-22/dair-credo-ai-and-signal-foundation-on-ai-ethics?srnd=all&sref=gni836kR
Also, the labor issue. Using cheap labor to eliminate future jobs with no alternatives to supplemental income because of wealth hoarding that is the true nature of capitalism.
Said Hanna: “We know from reporting . . .that there is an army of workers who are doing annotation behind the scenes to even make this stuff work to any degree — workers who work with Amazon Mechanical Turk, people who work with [the training data company] Sama — in Venezuela, Kenya, the U.S., actually all over the world . . .They are actually doing the labeling, whereas Sam [Altman] and Emad [Mostaque] and all these other people who are going to say these things are magic — no. There’s humans. . . .These things need to appear as autonomous and it has this veneer, but there’s so much human labor underneath it.”
The Olympic Stadiums of the tech world…
And the circle is complete.
It’s GIGO all the way down. Or up.
I want nothing to do with any of this
[looks at decisions made by movie executives]
This just might turn out to be an improvement after all.