Josep Coves

Father of 4 amazing spiderkids. Computer engineer at Parlament de Catalunya.
Co-founder of NGO Banco Famacéutico @bf_esp

[Josep Coves @josepcoves]

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[enric seda @enricseda]

"... però has d'entendre que el nostre cor terrenal és així: per estar segur de sí mateix, necessita l'amor proper, un amor que respiri, l'amor visible, sensible i palpable d'un altre ésser humà."
(Moments estel·lars de la humanitat, Stefan Zweig)

[Georgi Gerganov @ggerganov]

Today I was sent the following cool demo:

Two AI agents on a phone call realize they’re both AI and switch to a superior audio signal ggwave

[Josep Coves @josepcoves]

@nedgia desastroso. Llevamos desde el 04/04 sin gas, porqué viene un inspector y cierra la instalación comunitaria por una fuga. Llamamos corriendo a un industrial, que arregla la fuga el jueves 05/04, pero seguís diciendo que no os consta que esté arreglado y seguimos sin gas

[MΛRC VIDΛL @marcvidal]

'Los autónomos' #felizFinde

Crédits: El Chauma/YT

[Josep Coves @josepcoves]

@Punt_Bcn @auroralocutora @MaiteMelero1 @BSC_CNS @xserra @EspriuSalt Amb moltes ganes de gaudir-ho!!

[PuntBCN @Punt_Bcn]

¿Cómo nos afecta la inteligencia artificial #AGI y la tecnología #GPT?
Hablamos con @auroralocutora, profesional de voz, @MaiteMelero1 de la unidad de traducción automática en @bsc_cns, y con @xserra director de @EspriuSalt y filósofo especialista en nuevas tecnologías.
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[Josep Coves @josepcoves]

@DaviddelosSan Es veritat!! https://t.co/IqTUAllBOI

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Algú sap què és això??? Vist al cel a la nit de sant Joan i es desplaçava de forma rectilinia creuant el cel... Processionària estelar? #ovni??

[Josep Coves @josepcoves]

@mailolika En Barcelona

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@mailolika Nosotros también lo hemos visto

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

In this interview with Le Monde, Yoshua Bengio expresses his fears of some catastrophe scenarios that could be enabled by progress in AI.

One such scenario he is worried about is a flood of disinformation and political propaganda on social networks. He says that we have a "moral imperative" to act to prevent the erosion of democracy due to disinformation.

But here is the thing: that scenario has been happening for years and effective countermeasures have been implemented.

Social networks (Facebook and Instagram in particular) have implemented countermeasures against attempts to corrupt the democratic process since at least 2017. countermeasures against bots and fake accounts, misrepresentation of identity, spam, hate speech, bullying, child exploitation, terrorist propaganda, violent content, and misinformation that endangers public safety, have been in place for years.

And the most paradoxical thing: AI is part of the solution here, not part of the problem! It is because of progress in natural language understanding in multiple languages (due to self-supervised transformers) that, for example, hate speech can be detected and taken down in hundreds of languages.

Meta has a large organization called Integrity that is entirely devoted to security and content moderation. They make massive use of AI.
They publish a quarterly report on what they do:
https://t.co/C4Dyxi6SIh
For example, the number of fake accounts taken down every quarter oscillates between 400 million and 1.5 billion.
The prevalence of hate speech is somewhere between 0.01% and 0.02% of all content.
82% of hate speech is taken down automatically by AI before anyone sees it.

Text generation models, such auto-regressive LLMs may help with producing more "fake" content. But the bottleneck of disinformation is *not* in the production (e.g. QAnon is two guys). There are two bottlenecks: passing through the content moderation systems of dissemination media such as social networks and capturing the limited attention the public has.
LLMs do not help with any of that.

If bad actors attempt to use AI to flood Facebook with misinformation, it will be the bad guys' AI against the good guys' AI.

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[Josep Coves @josepcoves]

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El @GobiernoEs quiere eliminar el concepto de #familiaNumerosa...

[Josep Coves @josepcoves]

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El @GobiernoEs siempre pensando en las #familias, especialmente las #familiasNumerosas... En lugar de ayudar a los que tenemos hijos, cada vez estamos más solos

[Junta Confraries GI @JuntaConfraries]

Comencem els concerts de quaresma! #events https://t.co/fibfmp5Xot…
@MireiaEspelt

[Ignacio Jusué-Torres MD FAANS FCNS FEBNS @JusueMD]

Perfect music fit for the last 5 centuries of European history with Johan Strauss’ Blue Danube Waltz as intro, followed by Wagner’s ride of the valkyries during WWII and ending with my personally favorite with Beethoven’s Symphony No.9

[Josep Coves @josepcoves]

@AskAtlassian Glad to hear that!

[Josep Coves @josepcoves]

Petició per traduir #Jira #cloud de
@atlassian
al #catala Feu RT i voteu si us plau! https://t.co/aVKQlh6Iu6

[Josep Coves @josepcoves]

El @GobiernoEs siempre pensando en las #familiasnumerosas
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[Federación Española de Familias Numerosas (FEFN) @FamNumerosas]

Seguimos trabajando para defender los derechos de las #familiasnumerosas. Hoy, con el @GPPopular sobre la enmienda que presentará al proyecto de Ley de empleados domésticos, para que no se elimine la bonificación en la Seguridad Social que tienen los hogares con más #hijos.