Abraham Taherivand

[ZLB Berlin @zlb_Berlin]

Die BZ fragt nach, wollen wir viel großartiges #Bibliotheks-Leben in der Mitte Berlins, wir sind dafür! https://t.co/Fq34oyfqcC

[Tagesspiegel @Tagesspiegel]

Berlins Kultursenator @ChialoJoe hat einen neuen Ort für die @zlb_Berlin vorgeschlagen. Seiner Ansicht nach sei das Quartier 207 an der #Friedrichstraße, in dem unter anderem das Kaufhaus „Galeries Lafayette“ untergebracht ist, am besten geeignet. https://t.co/8kjzUR22zI

[ZLB Berlin @zlb_Berlin]

📌Pressemitteilung📌
ZLB in die Friedrichstraße
Mit großer Freude unterstützen wir den Vorschlag des Senators für Kultur und gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt @ChialoJoe, für die neue ZLB das Gebäude Q207 in der Friedrichstraße zu nutzen.
https://t.co/LaMp2fUAG7
@SenKultGZ

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Iran has some of the world's most ancient, important, and beautiful architecture.

So here is a very brief introduction, from ziggurats and Zoroastrian fire temples to crystal mosques and the first ever churches...

[AlgorithmWatch @algorithmwatch]

1/3 Bedeuten KI-Sprachmodelle wie #ChatGPT das Ende der Menschheit?
Darüber wird seit Monaten spekuliert. Was wir aber bereits kennen, sind konkreten Gefahren, die von sogenannten ‘General Purpose #AI’ Systemen ausgehen, wie wir mit @AINowInstitute & @DAIRInstitute zeigen.

[Peter Nixey @peternixey]

I'm in the top 2% of users on StackOverflow. My content there has been viewed by over 1.7M people. And it's unlikely I'll ever write anything there again.

Which may be a much bigger problem than it seems. Because it may be the canary in the mine of our collective knowledge.

A canary that signals a change in the airflow of knowledge: from human-human via machine, to human-machine only. Don’t pass human, don’t collect 200 virtual internet points along the way.

StackOverflow is *the* repository for programming Q&A. It has 100M users & saves man-years of time & wig-factories-worth of grey hair every single day.

It is driven by people like me who ask questions that other developers answer. Or vice-versa. Over 10 years I've asked 217 questions & answered 77. Those questions have been read by millions of developers & had tens of millions of views.

But since GPT4 it looks less & less likely any of that will happen; at least for me. Which will be bad for StackOverflow. But if I'm representative of other knowledge-workers then it presents a larger & more alarming problem for us as humans.

What happens when we stop pooling our knowledge with each other & instead pour it straight into The Machine? Where will our libraries be? How can we avoid total dependency on The Machine? What content do we even feed the next version of The Machine to train on?

When it comes time to train GPTx it risks drinking from a dry riverbed. Because programmers won't be asking many questions on StackOverflow. GPT4 will have answered them in private. So while GPT4 was trained on all of the questions asked before 2021 what will GPT6 train on?

This raises a more profound question. If this pattern replicates elsewhere & the direction of our collective knowledge alters from outward to humanity to inward into the machine then we are dependent on it in a way that supercedes all of our prior machine-dependencies.

Whether or not it "wants" to take over, the change in the nature of where information goes will mean that it takes over by default.

Like a fast-growing Covid variant, AI will become the dominant source of knowledge simply by virtue of growth. If we take the example of StackOverflow, that pool of human knowledge that used to belong to us - may be reduced down to a mere weighting inside the transformer.

Or, perhaps even more alarmingly, if we trust that the current GPT doesn't learn from its inputs, it may be lost altogether. Because if it doesn't remember what we talk about & we don't share it then where does the knowledge even go?

We already have an irreversible dependency on machines to store our knowledge. But at least we control it. We can extract it, duplicate it, go & store it in a vault in the Arctic (as Github has done).

So what happens next? I don't know, I only have questions.

None of which you'll find on StackOverflow.

(I write on AI from a technical and product perspective. If you find that interesting then please do follow me for more)

[History Defined @historydefined]

Bruce Lee’s interview on the Pierre Berton Show, 1971.

[Tactical Tech @Info_Activism]

Google Deepmind Researcher Co-Authors Paper Saying AI Will Eliminate Humanity https://t.co/aDPvvwtwIT

[Sebastian Turner @SebastianTurner]

Heute in der ⁦@welt⁩ - der Turnaround des ⁦@Tagesspiegel⁩ und wie sich #Leitmedien erneuern können mit dem https://t.co/WkncfAeIis -Prinzip ⁦@Bildung_Table_⁩ ⁦@china_table⁩ ⁦@Europe_Table_⁩ #journalismus

[Abraham Taherivand @abta78]

@fabianloehe @Table_Media_ @china_table @Europe_Table_ @Bildung_Table_ Willkommen am Tisch :)

[Fabian Löhe @fabianloehe]

Dann mal los, erster Tag @Table_Media_ @china_table @Europe_Table_ @Bildung_Table_ Mit mehr redaktioneller Qualität und journalistischer Tiefenbohrung zu wirtschaftlichem Erfolg. #Recherche
#Exklusiv #Relevanz

[Schneier Blog @schneierblog]

iPhone Malware that Operates Even When the Phone Is Turned Off https://t.co/dBG8nA4c0b

[Johannes Ebert @johannes_ebert_]

Über die Rolle von Kreativwirtschaft & Kultur für den Zusammenhalt Europas - darüber spreche ich morgen bei Europe.Decisions.2022 #ED22: 30 high level Speaker in 150 Minuten von @Europe_Table_& @DelorsBerlin #ED22 Jetzt kostenlos anmelden: https://t.co/MbXZPqNN0n @goetheinstitut

[Abraham Taherivand @abta78]

@lukasmezger Vielen Dank für alles und so vieles über all die gemeinsamen Jahre und großes chapeau was du für Wikipedia, Wikimedia und das Movement geleistet hast! 🙏🏼

[Abraham Taherivand @abta78]

@SebastianTurner: "@Table_Media_ rechnet sich mit großer Freude" https://t.co/KticKRsWyf

[Abraham Taherivand @abta78]

Putins Krieg – Europas Optionen für Politik, Wirtschaft & Wissenschaft.
Europe. Decisions. Das digitale Live-Briefing für Entscheider am 18. Mai 2022, 10-12.30h. 30 Speaker – High level – Digital – Kompakt:
https://t.co/oBc4bapVoU

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

Amnesty International’s Crisis Evidence Lab analyzed digital evidence — including photos, videos and satellite imagery of indiscriminate attacks in #Ukraine. They have verified violations of international law which could amount to war crimes.

[Abraham Taherivand @abta78]

@tnegrin All the best for you! Hope to see you soon again.

[Abraham Taherivand @abta78]

@addshore You know what this means.