Two years ago I discovered scholarship arguing that AI is creating a new colonial world order. The idea haunted me & pushed me to investigate. Today I begin to release my findings: a culmination of reporting across five continents. Here’s my introduction. https://t.co/NlPAQDVpuR
Microsoft trains a 530billion parameter GPT3-style language model. This is the largest LM in existence. (There's also the mysterious multi-modal 1.5trillion+ 'Wu Dao' MOE model but little known about it). Microsoft trains on 'The Pile' dataset. https://t.co/md03QzqlxA
“Silicon Valley & #BigTech in general have been lame in responding to the crisis. Sure, they have given us Zoom & Netflix...But the pandemic has also revealed the limitation & impotence of the world’s richest companies...in the face of” #Covid_19 🌍 crisis https://t.co/7y5VvUMuJR
Why digital contact tracing Apps are a flawed plan by tech bros👇
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“Singapore’s TraceTogether app..more than 1million users..it still means that in any encounter between 2 randomly chosen people, there is only a 4% chance that both will have the app.” https://t.co/z63sOp3awe
There could be “pressure to deliver new domestic ‘social contracts,’” not unlike occurred after World War II @business#postcorona https://t.co/fg3PjjpKDI
An Irish Fintech app addressing the most common human phycological strrugle in a society of weekly budgets......#DigitalTrends@FuturesUl@EmergTechEthics https://t.co/MqnDeAXAcc
Tech spending is on the rise exceeding (for the first time ever) - $3 trillion globally, and $1.5 trillion in the US. The problem is acquiring the talent to use cognitive technology to its full potential. #mk6102@FuturesUl@Najmehafezieh
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Marketing graduates have studied a syllabus that doesn’t include digital techniques, and digital professionals have inconsistent abilities due to a lack of standardized skills training #digitalworkforce#mk6102@FuturesUl
"Unfortunately, most digital transformations are still run with IT project management methodology, which misses the need to completely change the culture of the organizations themselves" #MK6102@FuturesUl https://t.co/AVQNqDZjI4
Did you know any/all your information is with a bank for a min of 7 years. Even Under GDPR your data may be transferred outside EU. #MK6102#IN6062@EmergTechEthics@FuturesUl