Paul Reid

Gather round kids and let me tell you a story about a real technology ban...

Increasingly, it seems we have to teach students (and adults) to assume it was made via or by Gen AI.

My thoughts exactly!

The Environmental Impacts of AI -- Primer A Blog post by Sasha Luccioni on Hugging Face

🌲I wanted to “take a step back” to get an overall view of the main components in AI’s environmental impact, short & sweet. And @sashamtl.bsky.social & Bruna wanted similar, with relevance to current policy discussions. We merged our thinking: check it out!
huggingface.co/blog/sasha/a...

Challenging The Myths of Generative AI | TechPolicy.Press Eryk Salvaggio says we must dispense with myths if we are to think more clearly about what AI actually is and does.

"The productivity myth suggests that anything we spend time on is up for automation[...]The goal of writing, this myth suggests, is filling a page rather than the process of thought that a completed page represents."- @eryk.bsky.social
www.techpolicy.press/challenging-...

Hype, Sustainability, and the Price of the Bigger-is-Better Paradigm in AI With the growing attention and investment in recent AI approaches such as large language models, the narrative that the larger the AI system the more valuable, powerful and interesting it is is increa...

Me: writes a paper (with @sashamtl.bsky.social and @meredithmeredith.bsky.social) on how hype and choice of goals and benchmarks leads to an arm race in AI arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160

Them: here's my proposal to solve the problem by a better AI algorithm.

🤨 The problem is social: it's norm setting..

In the same way that social media leveraged dopamine, genAI tools are leveraging our oxytocin. Our devices are no longer designed to play on our desire for stimulation and novelty, but connection.