Tag: poverty

An optimistic vision of a future through powerful AI

Oct 26, 2024

in AI

agi, Anthropic, Claude, economic development, governance, healthcare, meaning, mental health, neuroscience, physical health, poverty, powerful AI, society

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s vision for beneficial AI development outlines five transformative areas where AI could revolutionise society within the next decade. Beyond typical tech industry hype, his essay presents a thoughtful exploration of both AI’s potential benefits and the intentional work needed to ensure these advances benefit everyone.
Category errors when writing about ‘AI’

May 23, 2023

in AI, Note

ChatGPT, climate change, hallucinations, poverty, social problems

The author is making a category error by conflating generative AI (a subdomain of AI) with artificial intelligence (the high level category). The promise of AI is that it will help us address the big problems we face as a society. And generative AI may form a part of that solution. But it may not.…
Mozilla Open Education course and other thoughts

Apr 16, 2009

in Education, Open access, Technology

adsl, broadband, health, local Internet problems, mozilla, MozOpenEdCourse, online web seminar, open education, poverty, south africa

I was unable to participate in the second session for the Mozilla Open Education course due to local Internet problems that meant I had no sound. While it was frustrating to begin with, I realised that this is the reality of the situation in most countries and that while we talk about open this and…

Tag: poverty

An optimistic vision of a future through powerful AI

Category errors when writing about ‘AI’

Mozilla Open Education course and other thoughts