Lecture by Sergey Levine about progress on real-world deep RL. Covers these papers:A Walk in the Park: Learning to Walk in 20 Minutes With Model-Free Reinfor…

Using this tactic, the researchers showed that there are large amounts of privately identifiable information (PII) in OpenAI’s large language models. They also showed that, on a public version of ChatGPT, the chatbot spit out large passages of text scraped verbatim from other places on the internet.

Clogs in the cogs! 🥾👡👠⚙️

I’m hearing chatter that Grammarly has just admitted to using its users’ work to train an AI–without consent. That means it’s been stealing/scraping your work and writing, without compensation.If you use that particular service, you might want to look into that.

Google said it consumed 5.6 billion gallons of water in 2022—its push into AI is likely to make that amount skyrocket.

It might seem like a black box, but computing has always relied on the labor of people.

AI uses huge amounts of electricity and water to work, and the problem is only going to get worse – what can be done? Plus, the wider TechScape

I heard a confession from a friend the other day who’s working on ML in health care who’s leaving that field as soon as he can because as best as he and his team can measure, the most important thing ML analytics can bring to hospitals is the mathematical certainty they should have taken the money they spent on ML analytics and hired nurses instead.

Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears

Attached: 2 imagesRight now if you search for “country in Africa that starts with the letter K”:- DuckDuckGo will link to an alphabetical list of countries in Africa which includes Kenya.- Google, as the first hit, links to a ChatGPT transcript where it claims that there are none, and summarizes to say the same.This is because ChatGPT at some point ingested this popular joke:”There are no countries in Africa that start with K.””What about Kenya?””Kenya suck deez nuts?”Google Search is over.

Me: Wow, I’ve finally found a great use for full automation with ChatGPT. It can turn these MLA citations into bibtex entries automatically! What a timesaver!ChatGPT: Converts to valid bibtex format, gets all the men’s names correct and everyone else’s wrong.Never mind.