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How to Bluesky.
plutopsyche.medium.com

An interesting starterguide to Bluesky, written when it was "still in beta... though the application has recently passed 1 million downloads". Some interesting points:culture: "early adopters tended to be people from marginalized communities who were fleeing outright persecution" on other platforms; they all got invite codes &q;…

30/10/2024
October 2024: Exploring AI4Communities
mathewlowry.medium.com

My late October 2024 newsletter introduces my ongoing work exploring #AI4Communities, and provides some of the resources going into the next version.

Ensuring Human Agency: A Design Pathway to Human-AI Interaction
aisel.aisnet.org
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I think I'll call these 'centaur papers' - scientific papers describing how best to combine human and AI.Apparently theory and practice aren't matching up: "While frameworks on augmentation theorize how to best divide work between humans and AI, the empirical literature ... [shows] inconclusive findings. Interaction challe…

27/10/2024
Paradigm shifts for the decentralized Web | Ruben Verborgh
ruben.verborgh.org
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"Decentralizing the Web means people ... store their data wherever they want, while still getting the services they need... requires major changes in the way we develop applications... In this post, I discuss three paradigm shifts a decentralized Web brings"Rather than "accept package deals we cannot customize", redecentralisin…

Opinion | The TikTokification of Social Media May Finally Be Its Undoing - The New York Times
www.nytimes.com

According to Mark Zuckerberg, "Consumers no longer control their social-media feeds. Meta’s algorithm... is showing users “a lot of stuff” not posted by people they had connected with... future feeds [will] show you “content that’s generated by an A.I. system.”" Fortunately, "Our legal system is starting to recognize this shift and …

How to Use AI to Build Your Company’s Collective Intelligence
hbr.org
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"AI can not only improve short-term productivity of organizations but can also ... increase the organization’s collective intelligence."HBR starts well by pointing out the false dichotomy between thinking "about AI in terms of automation vs. augmentation... Augmentation doesn’t avoid automation, it simply hides it, usually in some l…

Knowledge management, synthesis & communities for better policy (LinkedIn carousel)
www.linkedin.com

"I rarely work for the same client for more than a year or two - generally enough to help them figure out their strategy, pilot and demonstrate it, and set up the team to mainstream it. But I make an exception for the Joint Research Centre"A few slides, repurposed for LinkedIn, setting out "some of the key innovations underpinning t…

Trust takes time
ruben.verborgh.org
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"Only people can trust, but only machines scale well. Today’s websites and apps are built to compensate for an absence of trust, rather than to support its growth."Instead we have the 'I accept' button: "we know we are lying the moment we touch it, as does the author of the legalese no one expects anyone to read. Navigatin…

Nature's many attempts to evolve a Nostr
substack.com
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Brander with a great intro to the role Nostr could play in tomorrow's online landscape. A choice of architecturesWalled gardens of surveillance capitalismHe starts by walking us through the various architectures, starting with that "of a typical app: a big centralized server in the cloud supporting many clients... grants the server tota…

Solving the Maker-Taker problem | Dries Buytaert
dri.es
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"How open source projects can balance Makers and Takers: lessons from Drupal's contribution credit system" by the founder of Drupal, in reaction to the Wordpress/WP Engine debacle, tackling "two key challenges that many open source projects face" and which could impede the development of opensource:"The imbalance betw…

Algorithmic choice - Bluesky
bsky.social
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As AI drives a flood of new content, "algorithms to help people sort through information must evolve rapidly" - ie, we need AI to solve AI-created problems.Today's algorithms belong to for-profit platforms, mainly social media, and lack transparency: while you can influence it through who you follow, "your ability to truly cust…

Silicon Valley’s Very Online Ideologues are in Model Collapse
www.reimaginingliberty.com

Basically a restatement of echo chambers, using the language of AI."Like an AI trained on its own output, they’re growing increasingly divorced from reality, and are reinforcing their own worst habits of thought".A good definition of model collapse: "the AI is primarily talking to, and learning from, itself, and this creates a self-…

AI as Extraherics: Fostering Higher-order Thinking Skills in Human-AI Interaction
arxiv.org

"over-reliance on AI... may lead to human deskilling and diminished cognitive engagement... to accept information given by AI without performing critical examinations... misleading users with hallucinated contents... [hence] extraheric AI... conceptual framework that fosters users' higher-order thinking ... creativity, critical thinking,…

25/09/2024
Using Brave Search for higher quality training data and better AI | Brave
brave.com

The Brave browser project shows that it was ahead of the curve back in late 2023, pointing out:to train an LLM you need training data which is "diverse... span[ning] a wide variety of genres, topics, viewpoints, languages, and more... [to] reduce the errors, biases, and misrepresentations that might be more pronounced in smaller data sets... …

22/09/2024
A negative view on o1
www.linkedin.com

Classic example of a negative view on LinkedIn: "Unlike many others, I don’t think any reinforcement learning or reward algorithm is at play... appears to be a generic Chain-of-Thought (CoT) process that breaks tasks into several steps... Subsequent steps ... generated based on context... subsequent interactions concatenated into the context.…

Markus Buehler on knowledge graphs for scientific discovery, isomorphic mappings, hypothesis generation, and graph reasoning
amplifyingcognition.com

“If you read 1,000 papers and build a powerful representation, humans can interrogate, mine, ask questions, and even get the system to generate new hypotheses...What you will learnAccelerating scientific discovery with generative knowledge extractionUnderstanding ontological knowledge graphs and their creationTransforming information into knowledg…

AI can change belief in conspiracy theories, study finds
www.theguardian.com

“About one in four people who began the experiment believing a conspiracy theory came out the other end without that belief... challenges conventional wisdom that evidence and arguments rarely help to change believers’ minds... [as they're] adopting such beliefs to meet various needs – such as a desire for control."The researchers develo…

AI-Implanted False Memories
www.media.mit.edu
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"examines the impact of AI on human false memories--recollections of events that did not occur or deviate from actual occurrences... through suggestive questioning in Human-AI interactions, simulating crime witness interviews. Four conditions were tested: control, survey-based, pre-scripted chatbot, and generative chatbot" The 200 people…

Can LLMs Generate Novel Research Ideas?
arxiv.org

A Large-Scale Human Study with 100 NLP Researchers

Replit Agent | Replit Docs
docs.replit.com
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"AI-powered tool designed to assist users in building software ... [from] natural language prompts ... create applications from scratch.

08/09/2024
Do Not Use LLM or Generative AI For These Use Cases
pub.towardsai.net
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AI is a wider field than LLMs, so "not all the AI use cases are suitable for Generative AI."

04/09/2024
AI in Digital Participation Tools – Where Do We Stand? - Democracy Technologies
democracy-technologies.org
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"The most common AI-based functionalities in participation tools are toxicity screening, analysis of inputs and translation. The first two in particular are meant to lighten the workload" of community managers."Toxicity screening ... is used to flag hateful or inappropriate inputs." Text is usually flagged and post-moderated, b…

When A.I.’s Output Is a Threat to A.I. Itself
www.nytimes.com

Starts with a basic outline of model collapse and the challenge it faces new AI development, providing several links: "Research has shown that when generative A.I. is trained on a lot of its own output, it can get a lot worse."It then uses scrollytelling to provide a simple example of how "Just as a copy of a copy can drift away fro…

What Nobody Tells You About RAGs
towardsdatascience.com

"A deep dive into why RAG doesn’t always work".It should be easy: "install a popular LLM orchestrator like LangChain or LlamaIndex, turn your data into vectors, index those in a vector database, and quickly set up a pipeline with a default prompt."However, while "quick-and-dirty demos are great for understanding the basics…

03/09/2024
How Model Collapse could revive authentic human communities
mathewlowry.medium.com

"As AI-generated content blurs the line between human and machine online, “model collapse” might help us find new value in well-managed human communities."

Let's fund the Fediverse | sub.club
sub.club

"you should be able to ask your most passionate followers to support you with a premium subscription... ask your community members to support your instance financially ... use our simple API to build bots and other integrations that help pay for your Fediverse idea". From Techcrunch: bult by "the makers of Mammoth, the Mastodon app …

AI Search Grader
www.hubspot.com
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"See how visible your brand is in AI-powered search engines. Spot where you are doing well and where you can improve to increase brand awareness and sentiment."

01/09/2024
AI Is Poised to Replace the Entry-Level Grunt Work of a Wall Street Career - The New York Times
www.nytimes.com
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AI "can replace much of Wall Street’s entry-level white-collar work, raising tough questions about the future of finance". On the one hand the work - "Pulling all-nighters to assemble PowerPoint ... Punching numbers into Excel ... esoteric financial documents that may never be read" - sounds a pretty dismal "rite of passag…

01/09/2024
The best content I read over the summer (newsletter)
mailchi.mp

I hope you had a good summer. I stayed and worked from home, and got a lot done thanks to the mercifully fewer meetings. I also read a lot of good stuff, and published one piece. Here's a selection.

Why AI’s Tom Cruise problem means it is ‘doomed to fail’
www.theguardian.com
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"does something like ChatGPT actually display anything like intelligence, reasoning, or thought?" or is it just a stochastic parrot? And "if you’re just making a useful tool – even ... a new general purpose technology – does the distinction matter?"Yes. LLMs have a ‘reversal curse’ which means it will "fail at drawing rela…

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