Aral Balkan
“How ChatGPT might be able to help the world's poorest and the organisations that work with them”
https://www.inkl.com/a/kxjXGaijBoj
I see the United Nations continues to be the favoured PR agency for Silicon Valley.
#SiliconValley #UN #PR #neoliberalism #corporatocracy #AI #ChatGPT #academiaWashing
Aral Balkan
And in what should come as no surprise to anyone, it turns out the rector of United Nations University, and UN Under-Secretary-General, is an “artificial intelligence engineer” who argues that “the more artificial intelligence is used for decision-making, the more efficient the markets become. For example, if artificially intelligent machines make all decisions, the markets will be fully rational.”
#UN #UnitedNations #SiliconValley #SurveillanceCapitalism #PR #neoliberalism #AI #academiaWashing
Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
@wraptile It doesn’t “‘steal intellectual property’ from some rich people”, it enables rich people to steal from everyone and it’s not some some “minor bias”, it’s a bullshit machine that replicates the power relationships, inequality, and bigotry in its training materials. No Silicon Valley corporation has the best interests of the Global South at heart. They see them as “the next five billion” to be farmed and exploited. It’s colonialism as usual.
wraptile
@aral I'm with UN on this one. Chatgpt is an amazing tool for developing world especially and I don't think anyone cares that it "steals intellectual property" from some rich people or that is minor bias when you're surrounded by cruel extremes. Fuck that.
Aral Balkan
@seachanger I’m not. Spoke at the first “Next Generation Internet” event in Rome a while back. Another speaker was from the UN. Literally said “the problems we face are too large and we should let Silicon Valley companies handle them.” Told him afterwards “Eric Schmidt could have given that talk” and he took it as a compliment. Was a real eye opener on the UN and where they stand for me.
wet forest moon folklorist
@aral I’m surprised! yikes
Carsten Franke
@aral what is he smoking?
Aral Balkan
@carstenfranke I believe it’s called neoliberalism.
Aral Balkan
@wraptile Who do you think owns ChatGPT?
wraptile
@aral I find it hilarious how people fall in line for copyright propaganda. Who do you think owns majority of all copyrights in the world? Poor people or mega corporations like gety images and all these ip and patent holders and trolls?
Copyright is not there to protect the little guy. I thought we had that figured out in the 90s, no? What's up with this regression.
Aral Balkan
@jasper “Blockchain 2.0.” No thanks, I just ate.
Jasper 🍉
@aral he seems really neoliberal and entwined with establishment US universities..
Apparently he wrote this on AI and blockchain too https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.04451
Aral Balkan
@serapath @jasper Nope; not cool enough ;P
(Got a lot to code. Do hope to catch one at some point.)
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Aral Balkan
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@aral @jasper ohterwise we are still busy, grinding, working, full time, no monies, barely surviving...
...but sadly no companies that work on local/offline first, user own all their data, never on a server, peer to peer tech and hires and pays for it ...so we build it ourselves and have fun sraying poor
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@aral @jasper agree with you.
anyway, mainly going there to meet some folks who i rarely have a chance to meet. was hoping you might be there too.
we still plan to visit you.
otherwise next wizardamigos codecamp will probably be late october in portugal
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