Post AVy8fNWngnfddCw6ls by timnitGebru@dair-community.social
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(DIR) Post #AVy8fLwxYZPIjl9yGe by timnitGebru@dair-community.social
2023-05-24T01:30:27Z
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So, the other "godfather" of AI, Turing Award Winner Yoshua Bengio has decided to FULLY align himself with the #TESCREAL bundle, writing a thing about "rogue AI" and prominently citing people like Nick Bostrom.Take a good look at this text here. This is written by non other than Nick Bostrom, prominently featured by so many of these fathers and godfathers and sons and brothers and nephews of "AI" (given that its all men you know).
(DIR) Post #AVy8fMuA0SlJhMrFXk by timnitGebru@dair-community.social
2023-05-24T01:31:00Z
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That's right "Blacks are more stupid than whites" and then he proceeds to call us the N word. That's not even the worst of it, because his entire career has been "raising awareness" about "dysgenic pressures" (the opposite of eugenic pressures), as existential risks to humanity. That is, those of us who are "stupider than mankind as a whole" reproducing too much and creating an inferior race.
(DIR) Post #AVy8fNWngnfddCw6ls by timnitGebru@dair-community.social
2023-05-24T01:31:27Z
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He feels ZERO need to hide any of this shit because he does it in the worst "scholarspeak" ever, until his very clear email came out. Then he had an even worse apology. We knew there would be ZERO consequences (ahhh the awful "cancel culture" amiright?), and Oxford students protested. Literally weeks after that the The New York Times just profiled him a couple of months ago.
(DIR) Post #AVy8fOPOPpL6MWThrc by timnitGebru@dair-community.social
2023-05-24T01:31:37Z
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AFTER all that, the Future of Life institute, co-founded by Musk and Max Tegraf (you can read here about the latter's Nazi funding & I don't have anything more to say about Elmo: https://lnkd.in/gC6m4Y4s), get to write a letter having the who's who of "AI" signing something about pausing it and saving humanity, also citing Bostrom (how wonderful). Now Yoshua who also signed that letter, writes another blogpost about "existential risk" also citing Bostrom.
(DIR) Post #AVy8fOzYFOGMAfOaDw by timnitGebru@dair-community.social
2023-05-24T01:32:10Z
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Maybe stop your racist ass field before trying to "save humanity." Why don't you start by cleaning your own damn house and stop platforming the actual humans whose ideologies are threats to actual living humans right now?
(DIR) Post #AVy8fPbTyMbW4J8sLY by timnitGebru@dair-community.social
2023-05-24T01:32:13Z
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The entire foundation of this field is the most racist shit I've ever seen. The more I learn the more bizarre it gets. And your favorites, OpenAI + co. are most influenced by, you guessed it, Nick Bostrom. "Altman has written about the influence Nick Bostrom...the "father" of longtermist thought, has had on him and his work": https://lnkd.in/gsVwrpJM
(DIR) Post #AW0LogjFMGbzVYRn4S by fcktheworld587@social.linux.pizza
2023-05-25T06:14:27Z
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@timnitGebru soon as I saw Bostrom's name, in the first post, I knew I was going to be reading something both stupid and totally fucking crazy. Dude has caused massive negative consequences for all of humanity with his bullshit
(DIR) Post #AW0Lq2d7PpcZisE5BI by Cher@eldritch.cafe
2023-05-24T02:14:49Z
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@timnitGebru Sam Altman: I want to get the smartest people in a room togetherNarrator: he then proceeded to fill a room with cryptocurrency conmen
(DIR) Post #AW0MDl5IIjbiFwiLBY by astatide@tech.lgbt
2023-05-24T03:26:51Z
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@timnitGebru So a bunch of Nazis are attempting to gain power by convincing us they're the only ones capable of defending humanity against a nebulous, ill defined threat (AGI)? Where have I oooooooh right it's literally the Nazi playbook.It certainly is a strange coincidence that their solution towards this threat just also so happens to reinforce white supremacist patriarchal structures by enabling propaganda at scale through a biased automated lie generator during a time of political and social upheaval and uptick in violence against sexual and ethnic minorities! Wow, so weird.This should be damning by association alone ("What do you call a guy in a room with a bunch of Nazis? A Nazi"), so the fact that companies like my former employer are doubling down on their investment with OpenAI despite stuff like this constantly coming to light is... depressing. I can't believe how gross and blatant this all is except yes, I can.
(DIR) Post #AW0MLH3HqQtHQfMJkm by jima@tech.lgbt
2023-05-24T05:31:21Z
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@timnitGebru Sorry, this got me rant-y. (Thank you for everything you do, by the way!)"It's just that based on what I have read, I think it is probable that black people have a lower average IQ than mankind in general, and I think that IQ is highly correlated with what we normally mean by 'smart' and 'stupid'."Fucking hell. Other than a little bit of opposition research, I don't care to read things with that much of a racist tone. 😬Do Black people possibly score poorly on IQ tests? I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest. If that were the case, should our takeaway be "well, clearly that means Black people are less intelligent?" HELL NO. My takeaway is that we need to take a second (and third, ...) look at how we got to those tests' structure.The "based on what I have read" has a more insidious undertone, to me: these are the same cognitive biases that the industry is gleefully feeding into AI models, and all the while accepting what they churn out as unquestionable gospel.Garbage in, garbage out. 🤮
(DIR) Post #AW0MX3KChwAyKWt8TI by TessRants@mastodon.social
2023-05-24T18:26:00Z
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@timnitGebru That motherfucker trying to change the definition of racism? Someone tell that twit that racism is a belief that a given race is inferior.It doesn't mean one hates them, necessarily - although that often goes hand in hand.(yes, I know his shitty framing is likely the least of his transgressions, but my tank's too full for deep shit right now.)