Category: All knowledge

Forcing people to die of famine, malnutrition, disease and neglect is not directly killing them

Sebastian S. Cocioba @ATinyGreenCell  Over 800 million people are food insecure today. We have done a great good since the year 2000, but the ones who need it most are still suffering from famine globally. I wish our iteration and progress on food security would be in lock step with progress in AI. We all
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Hitching a ride on an extrasolar object – Take lots of supplies and plan for 10000 years

Hitching a ride on an extrasolar object – Take lots of supplies and plan for 10000 years — I was working out what is needed to image nearby stars and planets. But I remembered that Oumuamua extrasolar object.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliosphere#Heliopause   If another one passes by, or there was some way to catch up, Elon
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Nancy Grace Roman Galactic Plane Survey – Gravitation signals from many alien civilizations

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope,  If I were going to look at the Galactic Plane now, I would look for evidence of civilizations of two types.  The human species is going to produce intelligent machines. Their size and shapes and abilities are open. But in terms of human knowledge one very likely outcome is that human
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Fairness and privacy, Removing context encourages unfairness

Han Zhao @hanzhao_ml How to ensure fairness (statistical parity) and privacy (DP) simultaneously? What are the costs of privacy and fairness upon accuracy? Excited to share our #ICML2024 work answering the two questions above! paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.04034 code: https://github.com/rxian/fair-regression Replying to @hanzhao_ml Han, Link to abstracts to give context. If I could, I would outlaw use
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The survival of the human and related species

Borriss @_Borriss_ People like critiquing OpenAI for many things.. (no problem)  But the reality is that they’re pushing AI forward.  It’s been 17 months since they launched ChatGPT.  Why didn’t Apple or Google or Meta leapfrog and present an AI assistant first?  If we had to wait for them to… Replying to @_Borriss_ Borriss, the problem is that OpenAI
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