It’s getting hard to keep up with all the reports filed about AI companies that operate as predatory criminal enterprises desperate to maximize rapid growth at others’ expense. VentureBeat …LLM companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere and even Meta — traditionally the most open source-focused of the Big Tech companies, but which declined to release … Continue reading AI Companies Keep Stealing From Everyone. Who Can Stop Them?
I’ve been putting ChatGPT through a battery of bias tests, much the same way I have done with Google (as I have presented in detail at security conferences). With Google there was some evidence that its corpus was biased, so it flipped gender on what today we might call a simple “biased neutral” between translations. … Continue reading ChatGPT Erases Genders in “Simple Mistake”
A few hours ago the SF Chronicle published a map of crashes that illustrates quite well a failure of driverless cars to deliver safety or reliability. There are so many simple yet catastrophic failures it’s hard to choose which one will become most popular among the many groups watching and aiming to disrupt transit in … Continue reading SF Chronicle Maps Quickly Spreading Driverless Crashes
One note from this years’ typical out-of-tune “BlackHat” festivities in Las Vegas has struck a particularly dissonant chord — a statement that regulators habitually trail behind the currents of innovation. A main stage speaker expressed strange sentiment and stood in contrast to the essence of good regulation itself, which strives to act as an anticipatory … Continue reading Deception From a BlackHat Conference Keynote About Regulating AI