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We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting

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We Need To Talk About The NYTimes Quality Decline (and what you can do to stop it)

Surreal to see the NYT linking to Lesswrong. Pretty cool though. Comments on this article are currently quite disappointing, with several jabs at the NYT. What I don't see are any substantial critiques of the actual article. I think the main points it makes, that we need to do better at communication and the media should also try and better-relate progress are good ones. I also think that for most people who aren't clued in with the current SOTA results, someone with, say, a 2018-understanding of AI, the current progress is remarkable and shouldn't be downplayed/poo-pooed just because you might have a better understanding of how the systems work.

I noted lately alot of the large models are getting replicated by more open licensing also.

In case anyone thinks NY Times opinion of anything tech related is worth a damn these days, de-paywalled link: https://archive.ph/zzhKb

>In case anyone thinks NY Times opinion of anything tech related is worth a damn these days

Here's the NYT doing Google a big favor, by diverting attention from a very pressing issue with Google search, Religious Discrimination inherent in their services.

>Then there’s Google’s LaMDA, an A.I. model that made headlines a couple of months ago when Blake Lemoine, a senior Google engineer, was fired after claiming that it had become sentient.

It was his whistle-blowing in relation to religious issues[1], something Google can't really fix, but legally MUST fix, that put them into a huge bind.

    "The suspension came a day after he handed over documents to a US senator, which Lemoine claimed contained evidence that Google's technology had been involved in instances of religious discrimination, The New York Times previously reported."

  1 - https://news.yahoo.com/suspended-google-engineer-believes-companys-150324256.html

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