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The intractability proof (a.k.a. Ingenia theorem) implies that any attempts to scale up AI-by-Learning to situations of real-world, human-level complexity will consume an astronomical amount of resources (see Box 1 for an explanation). 13/n
August 17, 2024 at 9:56 PM
The intractability proof (a.k.a. Ingenia theorem) implies that any attempts to scale up AI-by-Learning to situations of real-world, human-level complexity will consume an astronomical amount of resources (see Box 1 for an explanation). 13/n
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Desperate for people to understand how Big Tech is a major cog in war machines.There is no casual use of foundation model AI. Universities embracing the AI-enhanced learning dream are contributing to mass annihilation, even if it's inconvenient for them to recognize it.
apnews.com/article/isra...
apnews.com/article/isra...
As Israel uses US-made AI models in war, concerns arise about tech’s role in who lives and who dies
U.S. tech giants have quietly empowered Israel to track and kill many more alleged militants more quickly in Gaza and Lebanon through a sharp spike in artificial intelligence and computing services.
apnews.com
February 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Desperate for people to understand how Big Tech is a major cog in war machines.There is no casual use of foundation model AI. Universities embracing the AI-enhanced learning dream are contributing to mass annihilation, even if it's inconvenient for them to recognize it.
apnews.com/article/isra...
apnews.com/article/isra...
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FYI, keeping a certain distance with current events to avoid spiralling into anxiety.
One of the many things that are nit okay at the moment:
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...
One of the many things that are nit okay at the moment:
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...
Trump fires archivist of the United States, official who oversees government records
President Trump has fired the nation's top record keeper, Archivist of the United States Colleen J. Shogan.
www.cbsnews.com
February 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
FYI, keeping a certain distance with current events to avoid spiralling into anxiety.
One of the many things that are nit okay at the moment:
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...
One of the many things that are nit okay at the moment:
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...
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just gonna drop this here cuz I'm tired of repeating myself www.cigionline.org/big-tech/the...
Listen: Jeff Doctor on the Entrenched Colonialism of Tech
As much as the tech industry thinks it’s about the future, it’s astonishing how profoundly it replicates the past, including our colonial legacy. Animikii’s Jeff Doctor talks about how colonialism is ...
www.cigionline.org
February 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
just gonna drop this here cuz I'm tired of repeating myself www.cigionline.org/big-tech/the...
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🔥 Hot off the presses:
The Web is Too Big, or Scaling Down
By Scott Richmond @scottrichmond.me
www.heliotropejournal.net/helio/the-we...
The Web is Too Big, or Scaling Down
By Scott Richmond @scottrichmond.me
www.heliotropejournal.net/helio/the-we...
The Web is Too Big, or Scaling Down — HELIOTROPE
By Scott Richmond In October of 2024, Mozilla, not-for-profit publisher of the Firefox browser, announced that it's going to become an adtech company . This is real bad .
www.heliotropejournal.net
January 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
🔥 Hot off the presses:
The Web is Too Big, or Scaling Down
By Scott Richmond @scottrichmond.me
www.heliotropejournal.net/helio/the-we...
The Web is Too Big, or Scaling Down
By Scott Richmond @scottrichmond.me
www.heliotropejournal.net/helio/the-we...
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“They’ve re-created the financial system, but with fewer protections for consumers.”
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Crypto’s Legacy Is Finally Clear
An anti-establishment technology for an anti-establishment age
www.theatlantic.com
January 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
“They’ve re-created the financial system, but with fewer protections for consumers.”
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Now that "scale is all we need" has predictably faltered...
1. Small AI models often perform better in context.
2. Obsession w bigness has bad consequences, from climate, to power concentration, to research capture.
Me + @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social @sashamtl.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160
1. Small AI models often perform better in context.
2. Obsession w bigness has bad consequences, from climate, to power concentration, to research capture.
Me + @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social @sashamtl.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160
Hype, Sustainability, and the Price of the Bigger-is-Better Paradigm in AI
With the growing attention and investment in recent AI approaches such as large language models, the narrative that the larger the AI system the more valuable, powerful and interesting it is is increa...
arxiv.org
November 17, 2024 at 11:16 AM
Now that "scale is all we need" has predictably faltered...
1. Small AI models often perform better in context.
2. Obsession w bigness has bad consequences, from climate, to power concentration, to research capture.
Me + @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social @sashamtl.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160
1. Small AI models often perform better in context.
2. Obsession w bigness has bad consequences, from climate, to power concentration, to research capture.
Me + @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social @sashamtl.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160