This is a great interview with @geomblog by Sharon Goldman
"This is a deliberate design choice, by ChatGPT in particular...ChatGPT puts little three dots [as if it’s] “thinking” just like your text message does. ChatGPT puts out words one at a time as if it’s typing. The system is designed to make it look like there’s a person at the other end of it. That is deceptive. And that is not right, frankly."
"...it’s disinformation...an organized campaign of fear-mongering...I feel like the goal...is to push a reaction against sentient AI that doesn’t exist so that we can ignore all the real problems of AI that do exist...it’s...corrupting our policy discourse around the real impacts that AI is having...when Black taxpayers are being audited at three times the rates of white taxpayers, that is not a sentient AI problem. That is an automated decision system problem. We need to fix that problem."
Fired from Google for raising issues of discrimination in the workplace and writing about the dangers of large language models: https://www.wired.com/story/google-timnit-gebru-ai-what-really-happened/.Founded The Distributed AI Research Institute: https://www.dair-institute.org/. Come to our virtual 1st year anniversary celebration on Dec 2nd & 3rd. RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dair-s-1-year-anniversary-celebration-tickets-444428637017