243. GPT-4 and the Politics of OpaqueAI (ft. Abeba Birhane)
This Machine Kills
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The Power of Values in AI and Machine Learning Research
"This is a great paper for people who pay critical attention to these fields like AI and machine learning research," he says. "It's certainly a power law distribution in terms of the presence of the values." But then when you really dig into, as your paper does, okay performance. Sure, we should expect that AI machine learning researchers care about the performance of their models; but they're not doing it through sophisticated engineering or scientific innovation. It's by having access to pre-established extremely large data sets That are held by corporations and companies. And it's all of these tricks, right? Yeah, exactly.
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