2024-09-09
“humans in the loop” has quickly moved from an assurance that humans will always play a key role in thinking/writing to euphemism for “humans are required to help AI companies make money” (this, from Guardian piece on writers who are being paid to improve LLMs, link below) [image]
The Guardian
A writer who works for a tech company describes how he helps train AI models how to write, by making up pretend responses to hypothetical chatbot questions
Journalists and other writers are employed to improve the quality of chatbot replies. The irony of working for an industry … Mastodon: @michellemanafy@journa.host . X: @timkendall...
2024-07-15
Good read and this point especially applicable to the discussion about AI in education: “But you don't have to get apocalyptic to see the way that AI's potential is always muddying people's ability to evaluate its present.” Just as this piece notes about medicine, it's hard /
The Atlantic
An interview with Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington on their startup Thrive AI Health to build an AI health coach, and why AI has become a technology of faith
so he asked them about it. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... @theatlantic : OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and the entrepreneur Arianna Huffington want to remake America's health-care system...
2024-04-07
“Tech companies could run through the high-quality data on the internet as soon as 2026, according to Epoch, a research institute. The companies are using the data faster than it is being produced.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
Sources: OpenAI transcribed 1M+ hours of YouTube videos through Whisper and used the text to train GPT-4; Google also transcribed YouTube videos to harvest text
OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law …