Thread by @j2bryson

#RiseOfAI @Riseof_AI starts with a chatGPT piped to text-to-video keynote. @bootstrappingme says 99% of people can't spot that this is not a person. Are there stats about this? I had about 0.2 seconds of doubt, but I'm sure there's better text to speech out there now.

Fabian did a great (incl. funny) job of complying with joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2018/11/puttin… and fighting the #futureOfWork misinfo, but repeats the "#AIAct would have blocked #chatGPT" US west-coast talking point. Has someone written a takedown of that yet? #AIEthics @meerihaataja * #riseofai

** The GDPR though should already have blocked #chatGPT hoovering up our data for @OpenAI / @Microsoft for free, is that already getting investigated for prosecution? Anyone? #DSA #AIReguation #digitalGovernance #RiseOfAI

Actual costs of regulating high risk AI under the #AIAct is negligible, see: ideas.repec.org/p/osf/socarx/8…
People from any sector but digital is laughing at the whining about these costs, many will happily tell you that compliance with regulation often IMPROVES your product. #riseofai

Whoa, weird claim #riseOfAI that we all want "the same education, the best education".
1) what's best varies by student (capacities, interests, where they can live)
2) the last thing humans need to be in the age of AI is identical to each other!
3) AI can help customise!
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I'm not too worried about universities going away, we're still useful, though on the other hand I do worry for ALL jobs that people use the period of change to undermine employees hard-won rights (and wages)
joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2016/01/what-a… #riseofai #AIEthics #FutureOfWork 2/2 on edu

That was @hansuz #riseofAI he's giving us a really interesting account of Chinese AI regulation right now. But he expressed surprise about people expecting more accuracy from AI than its data. Such mistaken faith in machines as more reliable than humans is called #automationBias.

Hans–GPT can't have AGI because of lack of multi-step reasoning. IMO to some extent culture stores & we mine those though, that might what's surprising some AI researchers. But agree that without ape motivations/phenomenology you don't get humans wired.com/story/lamda-se… #riseofai

OMG Sabina Jeschke says 5G will allow #AutonomousCars to have their commute in the cloud. I guess we aren't getting full autonomy until after we end (cyber)war? cc @rodneyabrooks
#riseOfAI She is also saying quantum (here area) is useable by 2025 hmmm technologyreview.com/2023/01/06/106…

I've been super interested in quantum for NP-hard problems for decades. A lot of symbolic/explainable AI could become tractable if that ever actually worked. But last I knew quantum energy costs were so extreme it was unlikely to be used except for security. #riseofAI @QuantumViv

Oh, Sabina Jeschke just brought up the canonical NP-hard problem (traveling salesperson problem) as an application of quantum for logistics, apparently they are running some sims of this now. #riseofAI

Jeschke seems to be trying to undermine arguments that quantum is intractable due to sustainability issues by claiming quantum-fueled AI will solve sustainability. I hope she's right, with or without the quantum part, we're starting WAY to late on social adjustments #riseofAI 1/2

I'd love to hear a #riseOfAI talk about using AI to improve human governance and persuasion to such an extent we can get people to adequately stop flying, using cars, doing other ecologically destructive things.

I'm really getting angry about of irresponsible anti-#AIAct misinformation @Riseof_AI #riseofai. E,g. "we're about to see the first version of the AIA" no, it's about the 5th, and FINAL. "they didn't think about startups" NO that was the key concern.

I can assure you, every one of the many consultation sessions I've been in on the #AIAct talked about both what worked & what didn't wrt the #GDPR, and especially the need for #enforcement (info for @ZennerBXL #riseofai) So I agree in part.

@ZennerBXL I'm actually OK with politicians taking credit for other people's work, it's apparently an important part of democracy and legitimacy. I only get angry when they undermine that work with false critiques. Oh, q&a, now what will I say, or do I wait for my own keynote? #riseofAI

Interesting Q: will people really want to buy EU AI (weirdly at the end the panel u-turned to saying people will want to buy ours after the AIA) if their values are different. "value aligned" really should mean "aligned with owner/operator" IMO #riseofai

OK I ranted. @ZennerBXL describes another late hack I strongly agree is bad: shoehorning extra human rights & sustainability baggage only on AI. It should be done like liability, updates for HR & sustainability should be general to all products, & carefully legislated. #riseofai

Sorry I'm not tweeting as much, but great talk by @Deloitte's Björn Bringmann AI IN EUROPE – THE GOOD NEWS. Germany is actually the 4th largest national AI economy (!). Similarly Thomas Neubert on the present panel is talking about how startup culture is booming in DE #riseofai

Neubert: "I only wanted to develop until 5 months ago, but the EU opened an office in SF now and I go there, and now I get it. Only Europe is fining Google & Microsoft when they wrong.I do believe the EU has the right and are the best positioned to regulate. Even US sees that."

chair (otterbach, great name!) what if youth are afraid of all these regs & don't make startups? Tina Klüwer we need to remind people of all the awesome stuff we already have that is AI. We talk too much risk and not about all the wins. LIke all the stuff on your phone. #riseofAI

"I'm glad there's no Elon Musk in Germany, but moving more towards the area of AI" ha ha ha ouch. #riseofai

@hansuz actually in China they hate cameras too and often obscure or interfere with them. #riseofai

Q why people fear science, don't believe in progress. My own answer would be this is a form of political polarisation, which from the research I've been doing looks to be correlated with economic precarity–justified fear. cf my pinned tweet, or joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2022/02/scienc… #riseofai