The AI community is going through a reckoning. LLMs are failing. They are proving they may not be the pathway towards the promised intelligence we've all been led to believe. Now what?
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Two Thirds Of Canadians Are Divided On Whether AI Is Good For Society
When Leger, a market research company, polled Canadians across the country on their views on artificial intelligence, 34% said AI is good for society, while 36% believed it is harmful. Jennifer McLeod Macey is Senior Vice President at Leger, which independently released this report on AI usage in Canada. She expresses, “We believe it’s essential to contribute…Read more Two Thirds Of Canadians Are Divided On Whether AI Is Good For Society
Generative AI Is A Crisis For Copyright Law
Open AI launched on March 25 a controversial image-generation feature, GPT-4o, which allows users to transform various visuals — ranging from personal selfies to iconic movie scenes — into images resembling the distinctive style of Studio Ghibli, the renowned Japanese animation studio founded in 1985 by Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata and Toshio Suzuki. Fans of have criticized this as…Read more Generative AI Is A Crisis For Copyright Law
Joseph Stiglitz Warns Of The Looming Inequality Amid AI Monopoly Power
Stiglitz, renowned economist said, unlike Adam's Smith view, "The pursuit of self-interest in the age of AI does not mean the well-being of society.”
The Death Of Privacy And The Radical Reshaping Of A Political System
Elon Musk's brief tenure in government could very well redefine his legacy. While he purported to attempt to apply private sector innovation to reform and streamline federal bureaucracy, he also laid the groundwork for a political and government structure more amenable to an agenda that has been in the works for some time. The DOGE…Read more The Death Of Privacy And The Radical Reshaping Of A Political System
Data Privacy And The Contested Extension Of FISA, Section 702
I published this April 2024 when the United States proved once again that it had no intention of heeding the privacy rights of its citizens. It’s official: the executive branch has signed into law the bill that reauthorizes the warrantless surveillance power of the government, gravely impacting the civil liberties of every American citizen. I watched the…Read more Data Privacy And The Contested Extension Of FISA, Section 702
Yuri Bezmenov’s Ideological Subversion 2.0: Can America Survive this Pervasive Attempt to Topple the Nation?
This was initially published June 2020 on GritDaily. My colleague, Roxana Nasoi introduced the term Ideological Subversion. At the time the divisiveness in the US was accelerating. The murder of George Floyd and the Coronavirus fueled a fury and surfaced the underpinnings of this anger. It opened a pandora's box to the deception and manipulation…Read more Yuri Bezmenov’s Ideological Subversion 2.0: Can America Survive this Pervasive Attempt to Topple the Nation?
Privacy Concerns and Ethical Implications of Automated Contact Tracing
I wrote this only three months into the COVID Pandemic - June 2020. While the world was in a panic, tech was trying to figure it out... but at the cost of privacy. I wrote this in collaboration with Roxana Nasoi. “It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.”…Read more Privacy Concerns and Ethical Implications of Automated Contact Tracing
The Case for Democratized AI Research: LAION’s Petition for Open-Source AI Research and Regulation
This post has been syndicated to my personal website. This was originally written May 2023, at a time when there was a call to pause AI research. Few outside of the AI Research Community have heard of LAION, a large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network, with an aim to democratize access to large-scale machine learning models, datasets…Read more The Case for Democratized AI Research: LAION’s Petition for Open-Source AI Research and Regulation
A Call For A Systemic Dismantling: These Women Refuse To Be Hidden Figures In The Development Of AI
Hidden Figures, written by Margot Lee Shetterly, tells the true story of African-American women mathematicians who worked at NASA in the early days of the U.S. space program. These women and their contributions were often overlooked, and they lived in a time when both racial and gender discrimination were visibly common. Despite this, these three women made…Read more A Call For A Systemic Dismantling: These Women Refuse To Be Hidden Figures In The Development Of AI
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