The OpenAI saga – in which founder and CEO Sam Altman was suddenly fired and then reinstated, together with a new governing board – may have been enthralling, but it was neither novel nor surprising. Historically, capital usually wins out when there are competing visions for the future of an innovative product or business model.
shows why OpenAI’s efforts to preserve its founding non-profit mission never stood any chance.
Climate change is expected to displace tens of millions of people by mid-century, especially in the Global South. By enhancing international cooperation, we could improve the lives and livelihoods of the displaced and develop sustainable solutions that enable affected communities to rebuild.
urge leaders to take a holistic approach to addressing the sharp increase in weather-related displacement.
Antara Haldar
advocates a radical rethink of development, explains what went right at the recent AI Safety Summit, highlights the economics discipline’s shortcomings, and more.
发自剑桥——各类小说里一直都不乏人类一举一动都被某些邪恶中央集权机构所监控的场景。但尽管有了这类警告,如今我们却发现自己正朝着一个堪比乔治·奥威尔《1984》的反乌托邦式未来飞奔。而对如何保障我们——作为消费者、劳动者和公民——权利的评估要求也从未如此紧迫。
一个明智的建议是限制监控技术的专利以阻止其发展和过度使用。在其他条件相同的情况下,这可以使人工智能相关技术的发展绕开监控应用——至少是在专利保护极其重要且风险资本不愿支持缺乏强大知识产权企业的美国和其他发达经济体。但即便这些明智措施能被采纳,世界仍将分为对监控行为建立有效防范和没有防范的国家。因此我们还需要考虑在这些日益浮现的集团之间贸易的合法性基础。
人工智能的能力在过去18个月内取得了飞跃式发展,而且进一步发展的步伐不太可能放缓。2022年11月ChatGPT的公开发布是生成性人工智能名震天下的一声枪响。但同样重要的是政府和企业的监控能力也在迅速提高。由于生成式人工智能极其擅长模式匹配,它已经使面部识别变得相当准确(尽管还不乏某些重大缺陷)。同样的通用手段可以用来区分“好的”和有问题的行为,仅仅基于人们动向或举止。
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