*These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI**
*
/Today the risks of artificial intelligence are clear — but the warning
signs have been there all along//
/
By Lorena O'Neil
TIMNIT GEBRU didn’t set out to work in AI. At Stanford, she studied
electrical engineering — getting both a bachelor’s and a master’s in the
field. Then she became interested in image analysis, getting her Ph.D.
in computer vision. When she moved over to AI, though, it was
immediately clear that there was something very wrong.
“There were no Black people — literally no Black people,” says Gebru,
who was born and raised in Ethiopia. “I would go to academic conferences
in AI, and I would see four or five Black people out of five, six, seven
thousand people internationally.… I saw who was building the AI systems
and their attitudes and their points of view. I saw what they were being
used for, and I was like, ‘Oh, my God, we have a problem.’”
When Gebru got to Google, she co-led the Ethical AI group, a part of the
company’s Responsible AI initiative, which looked at the social
implications of artificial intelligence — including “generative” AI
systems, which appear to learn on their own and create new content based
on what they’ve learned. She worked on a paper about the dangers of
large language models (LLMs), generative AI systems trained on huge
amounts of data to make educated guesses about the next word in a
sentence and spit out sometimes eerily human-esque text. Those chatbots
that are everywhere today? Powered by LLMs.
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continua qui:
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/women-warnings-ai-danger-risk-before-chatgpt-1234804367/
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