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NEW: Forget AGI. Peter Thiel thinks people should be more worried about surveillance AI, which he described as a "communist totalitarian technology" https://t.co/5fgnA9y78r
OpenPalantir’s Peter Thiel thinks people should be concerned about surveillance AI
Tech billionaire Peter Thiel said this week that people should be more worried about "surveillance AI" than artificial general intelligences.
Great post about using automation as a way to support and supplement manual work, not to replace it.
By @JonathanGilmou3 about @COVID19Tracking, although I think the lessons apply more broadly 5/
https://t.co/pyKIHKnQGl
Open20,000 Hours of Data Entry: Why We Didn’t Automate Our Data Collection
Recognizing a critical need for publicly available, comprehensive data, they founded The COVID Tracking Project, which eventually relied on hundreds of volunteers who entered data …
@RickHills2 As with Google, citation counts certainly measure influence. Is that what we want to construe as success, though? Far worse than citation counts, tho, is h-index, which is influence on a hamster wheel.
As it happens, I've written about this too: https://t.co/hbOsAUsqrN
OpenFor Google, Everything Is a Popularity Contest
The limits of the search giant's philosophy