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@device You have stomach left after you whittle that down? Talk to me about the #DoubleEmpathyProblem and what you can do to get #Allistic humans to understand that 50% of this, alongside #TheoryOfMind and #HolisticSensoryDesign belong to them and they've been studiously pretending it doesn't exist and blaming us for #Communication #Skill #Deficiency in literature and life alike when reality is #ProjectionConfession #Bias and frankly, #Eugenics alongside #Supremacist thinking. 🪔🖖📣
Lest we forget:
As historian AJP Taylor wryly remarked, the BBC’s first Director General [Baron John] Reith had "managed to preserve the technical independence of the BBC by suppressing news which the government did not want published. This set a pattern for the future: the vaunted independence of the #BBC was secure so long as it was NOT exercised."
Not so @BBC5Live, @BBCRadio4, @BBCNews
#Press #SocialMedia #BBC #Reith #Independence #Partiality #Bias #Scotland
A 24 year old Indigenous Canadian woman named Heather Winterstein died of sepsis after ER staff dismissed her repeatedly and labeled her as a homeless addict.
There’s an inquest into her death that shows her falling to the floor in the ER and still being ignored.
Bias, bigotry, misogyny and racism can determine the care you receive in the hospital .
I was Heather’s age when I experienced a life threatening complication after my hysterectomy
Like her I was sent home from the ER multiple times
Told I was exaggerating.
Attention seeking
Deemed a trouble maker
On my fourth visit my then boyfriend had to carry me in because I couldn’t even sit up
He had to raise his voice and cause a scene
He said he was refusing to take me home to die, and he firmly believed that’s what would happen
Triage called security who threatened to call police
They would rather arrest him than treat me
Thankfully a doctor heard him yelling and came to look in on me and instantly realized something was wrong
Within hours I was being rushed to a larger hospital for emergency surgery
I had been bleeding internally the entire time and developed a huge infected abscess
Had they treated me earlier, my survival odds would have been much better
Instead I very nearly lost my life and ended up spending a month in the hospital
I was one of the lucky ones
No one’s survival should ever be based on luck, race, money or privilege
Yet more often than not those things determine who lives and who dies
My heart is heavy for Heather and all who knew and loved her
We must do better
We must believe and listen to patients
We must strive to treat everyone equally
#disability #chronicillness #ableism #eugenics #healthcare #bias
Therefore, if we were having a technical conversation about large language models and their use, we'd be addressing these and related concerns. But I don't think that's what the conversation's been about, not in the public sphere nor in the technical sphere.
All this goes beyond AI. Henry Brighton (I think?) coined the phrase "the bias bias" to refer to a tendency where, when applying a model to a problem, people respond to inadequate outcomes by adding complexity to the model. This goes for mathematical models as much as computational models. The rationale seems to be that the more "true to life" the model is, the more likely it is to succeed (whatever that may mean for them). People are often surprised to learn that this is not always the case: models can and sometimes do become less likely to succeed the more "true to life" they're made. The bias bias can lead to even worse outcomes in such cases, triggering the tendency again and resulting in a feedback loop. The end result can be enormously complex models and concomitant extreme surveillance to acquire data to feed data the models. I look at FORPLAN or ChatGPT, and this is what I see.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #GPT #ChatGPT #LatentDiffusion #BigData #EcologicalRationality #LessIsMore #Bias #BiasBias