weekend ai reads for 2023-03-10

🏗️ FOUNDATIONS

• via Patrick, Designing LLMs and LLM-based tools requires a deep understanding of humanity, and AI systems offer opportunities to bring humanistic research and computational research together

  • Humanities will be important in figuring out key issues. (Ben Hutchinson, Twitter)

  • Will also need more voices of historically marginalized. This for instance describes an end-to-end ML process with a feminist lens

  • More people need to know safety and ethical creation/use of AI systems

  • Where do mice beat AI? (David Chalmers, Twitter)

    • Saved you a click: 1. survival (drive/ability) 2. consciousness/sentience/feeling 3. empathy/social cognition 4. emotions (many) 5. olfaction

• Excellent use of AI from brand strategist Tom Roach Twitter, sorry

🎓 EDUCATION and AI

• aiEDU Rallies 50+ Partners to Launch Movement for AI Education press release

• Experimental Evidence on the Productivity Effects of Generative Artificial Intelligence [PDF] Shakked Noy & Whitney Zhang at MIT

📊 DATA & TECHNOLOGY

• Here’s What It Would Take To Slow or Stop AI Jon Stokes

  • The first half is a good overview of AI; I don't know who he's railing against in the latter half but that's probably more a reflection of my social bubble than his arguments

pairs well with ...

• First-principles on AI scaling Dynomightand

🎉 FUN and/or PRACTICAL THINGS

• Miss Journey, which exposes and fixes (?) one specific bias in generative AI.

  • This is great -- now do people of color, and make these the rule, not exceptions.

• Kirby Ferguson's final "Everything is a Remix" on AI & Art (22:26) Kirby Ferguson, YouTube

• Perplexity

  • Search engine/question answerer (?)

• Cinemashle

  • Two movies are combined and AI generates images from that imagined movie; you have to guess both original movies based on the AI-generated images.