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Ex-Googlers raise $40M to democratize natural-language AI

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Re: Ex-Googlers raise $40M to democratize natural-language AI

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Post by zdragnar »

fallingknife wrote: post #10
analyst74 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AI simply replicate existing bias the data already has. The downside is that it could amplify the bias if not done carefully; the upside is that now we can analyze the algorithm's bias and fix it, which is much harder to do to people with biases.

But to do this you would need unbiased people. Since those don't exist, this correction would just be matching the bias to that of the bias adjuster.

Nah, you just need enough people to review the fixes. If at the end everyone is unhappy with the results, you're good to go.

Re: Ex-Googlers raise $40M to democratize natural-language AI

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Post by qPM9l3XJrF »

timoth3y wrote: post #5

"democratize" You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. The word you are looking for is "mass-market" or perhaps "sell to small business".

Or, for a darker spin, "absolve yourself of responsibility if anyone misuses your API". I actually think OpenAI gets this right with GPT-3, having fairly strict terms of use for their API, so I'm sad to see seemingly less responsible players enter the space.

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Post by trhway »

taneq wrote: post #7
samstave wrote: post #2

I have been thinking recently about the ethics of AI; At what point do we 'allow' AI to determine actions based on perceived (programmed) *BIAS* How can one prevent any bias on an AI's ability to be deterministic.

All of the conversations I've seen about AI bias recently seem to define "bias" as "any difference between the output and the particular rightthink ordained by whoever's speaking." Nobody cares about making the AI's output correct , they just want it to agree with them . So the glib answer is "train it on unbiased data". Depending on your philosophy, this translates either to "manually 'fix' anything you see as 'bias…

>Nobody cares about making the AI's output correct, they just want it to agree with them.

that is the 4th industrial revolution, the "post-correct" world where abundance of information (and its consumers) and speed of its production allows for and results in co-existence of multiple truths (kind of like hyperbolic geometry where one can draw through a point multiple different lines parallel to the given line) with the information space splitting into multiple feudal times like dukedoms.

Anyway, in general for biases i think we have D.Rumsfeld situation - the known/expected biases are known while the AI driven world would most probably bring new biases that we don't even expect.

Re: Ex-Googlers raise $40M to democratize natural-language AI

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Post by cenophor »

monkeyfacebag wrote: post #3

Is "democratize" the hip way to spell "sell" these days?

I think so. That's why suddenly so many care about the rights of minority groups, too.

It might not get you rich, but a lot of technically-mediocre people with questionable work ethics have found success getting involved with that sort of things. It's pretty clear that they have no interests in helping anyone but themselves.

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