[FRIAM] AI Alliance

[Pietro Terna]

     Genius!


Il 06/12/23 15:11, glen ha scritto:
> For those of us who refuse to contribute to Musk's reality distortion 
> field: https://thealliance.ai/
>
> Yeah, it's interesting. 2 questions came to my mind: 1) Where is 
> Mozilla? Are they a part of it? And 2) "open" is not a simple concept. 
> Is it possible that so many organizations have a clear understanding 
> of what it means? If so, what do they mean? We've seen, over and over 
> again, a kind of exploitation of Utopian values, especially in 
> infrastructure-level software. (I'd love to get Stallman's opinion.)
>
> One way to clarify someone's position on their private conception of 
> "open" is to ask how they feel about limits to the exportation of 
> encryption software. 
> <https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/us-export-controls-and-published-encryption-source-code-explained>
>
> Another tack is to ask how they feel about fake news, trust in 
> institutions, free speech, platforming, etc.
>
> IDK. The AI Alliance smells, to me, kinda like more TESCREAL [1], ripe 
> for exploitation and *-washing [2] by the privileged. If a tech is 
> open and stays open, it'll most likely do so because individuals 
> commit to it, not because some meta-corp of mega-corps get together as 
> "allies". But I'm a bit cynical.
>
> [1] Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singulatarianism, Cosmism, 
> Rationalism, Effective Altruism, Longtermism
> [2] Green-washing (fossil fuel lobbyists at cop28), ethics-washing 
> ("ai safety"), dei-washing (sensitivity training), etc.
>
> On 12/5/23 23:47, Pietro Terna wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> what about the post below?
>>
>> Star Wars?
>>
>> Best from Italy, Pietro
>>
>> Post of Yann LeCun (@ylecun) 6:16 PM dic 05, 2023:
>> IBM & Meta are launching the AI Alliance to advance *open* & reliable 
>> AI.
>> The list of over 50 founding members from industry, government, and 
>> academia include AMD, Anyscale, CERN, Hugging Face, the Linux 
>> Foundation, NASA....
>> https://t.co/NdcMb7GMXv <https://t.co/NdcMb7GMXv>
>> (https://x.com/ylecun/status/1732086572529365136?t=wI9-xlsgfRTiFkS0zhh8nQ&s=03 
>> <https://x.com/ylecun/status/1732086572529365136?t=wI9-xlsgfRTiFkS0zhh8nQ&s=03>) 
>>
>>
>> Invio dal telefono, prego scusare gli errori.
>
>

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