Tag: society
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ChatGPT shows hiring bias against people with disabilities
Language models exhibit hiring bias against people with disabilities, ranking resumes with disability-related achievements lower than those without. However, this bias mirrors existing societal prejudices in human hiring practices. While AI bias can be reduced through simple prompts, addressing human bias is a lot more challenging.
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An optimistic vision of a future through powerful AI
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.
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Chatbots and Human Conversation
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/01/chatbots-and-human-conversation.html
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Link: AI and trust
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/ai-and-trust.html “In this talk, I am going to make several arguments. One, that there are two different kinds of trust—interpersonal trust and social trust—and that we regularly confuse them. Two, that the confusion will increase with artificial intelligence. We will make a fundamental category error. We will think of AIs as friends when they’re really…
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Resource: Artificial Intelligence in Society.
The artificial intelligence (AI) landscape has evolved significantly from 1950 when Alan Turing first posed the question of whether machines can think. Today, AI is transforming societies and economies. It promises to generate productivity gains, improve well-being and help address global challenges, such as climate change, resource scarcity and health crises. Yet, as AI applications…
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a16z Podcast: Network Effects, Origin Stories, and the Evolution of Tech
If an inferior product/technology/way of doing things can sometimes “lock in” the market, does that make network effects more about luck, or strategy? It’s not really locked in though, since over and over again the next big thing comes along. So what does that mean for companies and industries that want to make the new…
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Is violence in society decreasing over time?
This weekend I came across an interesting TED talk by Steven Pinker, where he identifies a decreasing trend in violence, which is somewhat surprising when you think about how violent the world is. He supports the idea with some examples which seem reasonable, although some of the comments highlight that the evidence seems to have…