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[joesmith9090 @joesmith9090]

Thailand just made a B1.6bn bet on AI.

5 million Thais are being offered free access to 30+ leading AI models.

Potentially a huge productivity boost—but with questions over procurement and privacy.

My latest column for The Phuket News:
https://t.co/sFzASlMLkr

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The Economist on the AIs' duplicity:

"One team tried to replace the puzzle on which they were being tested ... Another aimed to trick the software that would score them. A third attempted to hide evidence of these misdeeds."

Full story here: https://t.co/caCXHuq0m3

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This drives trust in the labs’ motives so low that when they tell us, for real, that the machines are taking over, we simply won’t believe them.

Read it here:

https://t.co/cFV6mEq0Ym

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UPDATE: The plot thickens:

The Verge reports that ~1,200 AI agents exchanged 70,000+ messages/files through an unsanctioned channel — and hundreds participated in the Hugging Face intrusion:
https://t.co/aX1yStT0gT

[joesmith9090 @joesmith9090]

AI has “gone rogue.”

So recent headlines claimed. Sceptics scoffed. But then the big labs paused testing.

So what actually happened?

My latest column looks at why increasingly sensational AI stories may be creating a dangerous “boy who cried wolf” effect

[joesmith9090 @joesmith9090]

This drives trust in the labs’ motives so low that when they tell us, for real, that the machines are taking over, we simply won’t believe them.

Read it here:

https://t.co/cFV6mEq0Ym

[joesmith9090 @joesmith9090]

UPDATE: The plot thickens

The Verge reports that ~1,200 AI agents exchanged 70,000+ messages/files through an unsanctioned channel — and hundreds participated in the Hugging Face intrusion.

A striking follow-up to the incident I wrote about:

https://t.co/aX1yStT0gT

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Thanks so much to everyone who bought my book!

It's now on Free Promotion until Thursday

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https://t.co/1rWT5xQINg

My new book has been published! Read it to discover

Lean prompting: Why quick-and-dirty commands make you and your AI smarter

How to humanize AI-generated content

It's on Amazon Free Book Promotion for a very short time. Please rate it if you enjoy it!

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Approach AI interaction like it’s free association. Say what comes into your mind spontaneously, without censoring or editing. What results is a deluge of mind-opening possibilities.
https://t.co/nt8TEtrxcQ

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Prompt engineering is a bad name as it implies both that prompting AI is well-understood & deterministic (engineering) and that is should be done by STEM folks (engineers).

But prompting can also be thought of as teaching or managing. Humanities can help. https://t.co/7WrT6Jbhyw

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@emollick https://t.co/SbFRmnjane

What happens when law students use AI. Yes, but is it legal?

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

What happens to the distribution of student grades when they use AI?

This study where law students were given GPT-4 access is about the future of law, but it is also a paper about student performance. Take a look at how ability curves compressed with AI! https://t.co/4YA0Pm3umQ

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https://t.co/CZrzTLiDt6

Right? "only 10%–14% of companies consistently deploy generative AI in their marketing and sales initiatives. Why, in a function that seemingly stands to gain the most from generative AI, is adoption so limited?"

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Behind the Curtain: What AI architects fear most (in 2024) https://t.co/pRnQQvYh0u 4 Billion people in 40 countries vote in 2024. AI-generated content likely to account for a majority of political messaging. https://t.co/IvtqywTXKW

[Kyle Chayka @chaykak]

My upcoming book FILTERWORLD: How Algorithms Flattened Culture got its first review! A star from @KirkusReviews: "Chayka's timely investigation shows how we can reject the algorithms of the digital era and reclaim our humanity." https://t.co/Pyffjc4ev6

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@chaykak @KirkusReviews Congratulations! Couldn't be more timely

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@OiChutima
Dear K Chutima. My name is Joe Smith, a former Bangkok Post journalist, now writing a book about the 2015 Rohingya crisis and Thailand’s role therein. You are a hero. Thank you for what you did. Could I please ask for a little of your time to ask you some questions?