Could AI destabilise society by undermining democracy? Matt Ryan's research at @UniSouthampton shows how AI tools can actually help strengthen democracy by making our political conversation more inclusive buff.ly/3xk3mXO

Townsend: 'What if we get this right? Not just SAS, but the collective WE. And not just governance, but AI more broadly. ... what if instead of diminishing, AI actually helps us strengthen democracy? Seems to me the promise is well worth the pursuit.' #SASInnovate

Could Polkadot's OpenGov model play a crucial role in the emergence of AI? 🤔

🔍 Discover how true, grassroots democracy is helping to shape a fairer future against the rising tide of big tech and AI dominance.

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🚨 Excellent AI paper alert: 'Can AI Standards Have Politics?' by Alicia Solow-Niederman. A must-read for everyone interested in AI policy, governance & regulation:

'The very formation of standards is political because the standards development and diffusion process reflects a particular…

solace of sky.

A street in Japan where a roadside channel is like an aquarium

📹 see.japan.rl

Paradise on Sunday is a day not touching a computer, brainstorming with beloved pen and paper.

Eva Pacheo, a local crochet teacher and her students in Alhaurín de la Torre, in Malaga, Spain, collaboratively created a massive canopy of patchwork crochet to create shade for their community #WomensArt

Meta's new AI—Llama3—beats an old version of GPT-4, Claude 2.1, and GPT-3.5!

You can run it:
- 100% free
- with 100% privacy (no data leaves your machine)

See the comments for an easy way to install 👇

Yann LeCun Yann LeCun delivered a lecture on Objective-Driven AI.

He began with a reality check: 'Machine Learning falls short compared to humans and animals!'

Here's his insight on constructing AI systems that learn, reason, plan, and prioritize safety:

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We're deeply saddened by professor Daniel Dennett's passing. We recently had the privilege of interviewing Dennett for our Legends series. It is with heavy hearts we share his video to further spread his wisdom and legacy 🖤

Notebooks for Lecture 4 on Graph SVM

Lab1: Standard/Linear SVM
github.com/xbresson/GML20…

Lab2: Soft-Margin SVM
github.com/xbresson/GML20…

Lab3: Kernel/Non-Linear SVM
github.com/xbresson/GML20…

Lab4: Graph SVM
github.com/xbresson/GML20…

🔥llm.c update: Our single file of 2,000 ~clean lines of C/CUDA code now trains GPT-2 (124M) on GPU at speeds ~matching PyTorch (fp32, no flash attention)
github.com/karpathy/llm.c…

On my A100 I'm seeing 78ms/iter for llm.c and 80ms/iter for PyTorch. Keeping in mind this is fp32,…

I just discovered this ancient Japanese concept I can’t stop thinking about…

The 80% rule:

'Imagine how social coordination and democracy will be like with such a tool'- Ohad Asor (CTO & Founder).

For the first time in history, Tau will combine brain power on a massive scale using advanced reasoning and inference, where new knowledge will emerge.

Excellent meeting with Professor Mark Coeckelbergh, University of Vienna. One of the most important thinkers on “Artificial Intelligence and Democracy”. His latest book “Why AI undermines democracy and what to do about it” is highly recommended. Looking forward to our cooperation.

The use of #AI tools is rapidly expanding amid curiosity & concern on their impact on global democracy.

On 16 April, International IDEA, University of Helsinki & Central Election Commission of BiH
will host the regional conference “Which Role for Artificial Intelligence in Electoral Processes?'➡️idea.int/events/which-r…

AI will make it easier, faster, and cheaper for U.S. adversaries to flood the United States with misinformation, warn Jen Easterly🛡️, Scott Schwab, and Cait Conley. How can U.S. officials address this threat ahead of the 2024 presidential election?
trib.al/MKZIE4r

⚔️ Closed-source vs. Open-weight LLMs

The gap between the best-performing closed-source and open-source models is also narrowing in terms of Arena ELO (chat.lmsys.org/?leaderboard).

We now face a 6 to 10-month lag, rather than years as was the case when GPT-4 was released.

Let's…