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Unless regulators act, Big Tech’s dominance over the digital economy will be cemented
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“We should be concerned that the current hype around generative AI is prompting these companies to push their products into development really rapidly,” says Sarah Myers West at the AI Now Institute, a research centre in New York. “Now the companies are experimenting in the wild with them, versus really taking the time to mitigate potential risks prior to deployment.”
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“There’s so much hysteria and hype around these faster and faster rollouts right now,” said Amba Kak, executive director of New York University’s AI Now Institute and a former senior adviser on AI to the Federal Trade Commission, “that I think we’re in danger of walking back a lot of the progress that has been made around responsible release practices and the need for regulatory oversight of these technologies.”
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GPT-4: OpenAI says its AI has ‘human-level performance’ on tests
“If anything, OpenAI has provided even less detail with which to evaluate its new system,” says Sarah Myers West at the AI Now Institute, a research centre in New York City. “But what we’ve seen so far in the roll-out of generative AI is that these systems are prone to error […] so we should be wary of any claims that these issues are resolved.”
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Fast Company
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Google made AI language the centerpiece of I/O while ignoring its troubled past at the company
“Google just featured LaMDA a new large language model at I/O,” tweeted Meredith Whittaker, an AI fairness researcher and co-founder of the AI Now Institute. “This is an indicator of its strategic importance to the Co. Teams spend months preping these announcements. Tl;dr this plan was in place when Google fired Timnit + tried to stifle her+ research critiquing this approach.”
The Verge
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"You never see these companies picking ethics over revenue," says Meredith Whittaker, a former Google engineer who now heads the AI Now Institute at New York University. "These are companies that are governed by shareholder capitalism."
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“It sounds like a very desperate kind of cover-your-ass move from a company that is really unsure about how to continue to do business as usual in the face of a growing outcry around the harms and implications of their technologies.”
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In AI, Diversity Is A Business Imperative
So how do we address the need for diversity and prevent bias? New York University's AI Now Institute report suggests that in addition to hiring a more diverse group of candidates, companies must be more transparent about pay and discrimination and harassment reports, among other practices, to create an atmosphere that will welcome a more diverse group of people.
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Companies at all stages on the AI development spectrum want to know where public policy on intelligent systems is headed. The work being produced by New York–based research institute AI Now offers a road map.
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But some are wary of the burden companies take on with such massive quantities of consumer information. Kate Crawford, founder of the AI Now Institute, tweeted about the pitfalls of the Vitality program after John Hancock announced its widespread implementation: false data, consumers trying to game the system, “intimate” surveillance and data breaches.
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