We Got Social Media Wrong. Can We Get AI Right? • Hacker News Board

Re: We Got Social Media Wrong. Can We Get AI Right?

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Post by JohnFen » Fri, May 26, 2023, 2:44 PM UTC

forgotmypw17 wrote: post #19

SecretDreams wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, I agree. The counter that I would offer is what are the time-based consequences of us getting something wrong? How quickly do the wheels fall off so to speak? With cars, which we can say came to be around the 1920s, we didn't start to care about safety or environmental concerns until maybe the 1960s/70s. In that sense, we did some damage and corrected our trajectory 40-50 years later and have been improving the…

I think the faster pace of evolution also means that we can correct our mistakes faster.

We're really, really bad at correcting our mistakes. We're much better at ignoring them and thinking of them as some sort of "law of the universe".

Re: We Got Social Media Wrong. Can We Get AI Right?

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Post by hammyhavoc » Sat, May 27, 2023, 2:46 AM UTC

laratied wrote: post #12

kelseydh wrote: post #3

I like the article's push for regulation, as if that isn't just an excuse for the existing big players to erect a moat around their technology to protect it from competition.

IMO we have already got it wrong and put the cart before the horse. Political theater and existing leaders in the space talking their book. Regulate what exactly? Does regulation include scikit-learn? If it is obvious that it does not include scikit-learn then what exactly makes it obvious? Is it GPU use so we are regulating GPU use? Are we just regulating language models? Is HN defined as social media? How can we po…

HN is classified as one of the six kinds of social media, yes.

Re: We Got Social Media Wrong. Can We Get AI Right?

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Post by mikewarot » Sat, May 27, 2023, 4:16 AM UTC

The mistake was the existence of "social media" in the first place. The internet was supposed to connect all of our computers, and let anyone serve content. Internet "providers" selling "Internet Access" instead of connectivity made sense in the days of dialup, but that entrenched directionality removed most of the power of the internet from the hands of the people, turning us from internet Citizens to "users" or "consumers".

The best way to avoid a repeat of this history is to run your AI locally, and retain control.