The world we build - stories & opinions
Stories that are news about what happens in the world, mostly in the form of opinion pieces around concepts. Features tech a lot.
Collection by Martina Pugliese
maddmaths.simai.eu
Le opportunità di riflessione didattica offerte da chatGPT
2 min · · I rischi da più parti paventati per le possibili utilizzazioni dell’intelligenza artificiale in attività didattiche possono essere un ottimo spunto per avviare una riflessione su quali dovrebbero… · Shared by 4, including Martina Pugliese
Gates Foundation
Artificial intelligence and our future
3 min · · Bill Gates explains why AI is as revolutionary as personal computers, mobile phones, and the Internet, and he gives three principles for how to think about it. · Shared by 390, including AGI.Eth | MTL.Eth, Nige Roberts-Willson, Nathan Benaich, Mike Tamir, PhD, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Yves Mulkers, Sam Altman, Cristina Tardáguila, Scott Santens, Danielle Fong 🙋🏻♀️, Chris Messina, Joanna (J.F.) Penn, Luke Wroblewski, Tom Vander Ark, Klaus Eck, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Dr. Marie Haynes🌱, Nicolas Babin, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, James Wise
The New York Times
The Airman Who Gave Gamers a Real Taste of War
7 min · · The group liked online war games. But then Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old National Guard airman, began showing them classified documents, members say. · Shared by 22, including Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis, Martina Pugliese
gov.uk
A pro-innovation approach to AI regulation
· Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology by Command of His Majesty on 29 March 2023. Command Paper Number: 815 © Crown copyright 2023 ISBN: 978-1-5286… · Shared by 4, including Martina Pugliese
Future of Life Institute
Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
2 min · · We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. · Shared by 270, including Dan Rockwell, Dr. Roman Yampolskiy, John Koetsier, Pippa Malmgren, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Marcel Salathé, Dennis Yu, Bob E. Hayes, Vicki Davis, Tristan Harris, Dr. Marie Haynes🌱, Gerd Leonhard, Yuval Noah Harari, Dion Hinchcliffe, Gary Marcus, Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis, Steven Sinofsky, Carissa Véliz, Luke Robert Mason, MarketingProfs
The Guardian
The stupidity of AI
18+ min · · The long read: Artificial intelligence in its current form is based on the wholesale appropriation of existing culture, and the notion that it is actually intelligent could be actively dangerous · Shared by 338, including Amber Mac, Gerd Leonhard, Martina Pugliese, zeldman, Carissa Véliz, Andrzej Jóźwik, Bob E. Hayes, Robert Lepenies, @grzewap@mastodon.social, Josep M. Ganyet
e360.yale.edu
Averting Crisis, Europe Learns to Live Without Russian Energy
7 min · · Faced with embargoes of Russian oil and gas, Europe ramped up solar and wind power, got serious about energy conservation, and tweaked policies to speed its green transition. Despite fears of… · Shared by 6, including Martina Pugliese
TIME
Exclusive: The $2 Per Hour Workers Who Made ChatGPT Safer
11+ min · · A TIME investigation reveals the difficult conditions faced by the workers who made ChatGPT possible · Shared by 563, including Stef Walter, TaylorLorenz.Substack.com, Mathew Ingram, Antonio Vieira Santos, Sarah Frier, AlgorithmWatch, Britney Muller 🇺🇦, Lily Ray 😏, Alf Rehn, emily bell, Joshua Benton, Gerd Leonhard, Rebecca Enonchong, Aaron Gustafson, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Thomas Power, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Marsha Collier, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Jennifer Stirrup #MBA Topics: #AI #Data #Strategy
Internet Archive
Digital Books wear out faster than Physical Books
2 min · · Ever try to read a physical book passed down in your family from 100 years ago? Probably worked well. Ever try reading an ebook you paid for 10 years ago? Probably a different experience. From the… · Shared by 184, including Maria Bustillos, 𝙎𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙎𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙯 💡, Jane, Martina Pugliese
WIRED
China Is About to Regulate AI—and the World Is Watching
2 min · · Sweeping rules will cover algorithms that set prices, control search results, recommend videos, and filter content. · Shared by 73, including Stephan Spencer, Sean Gardner, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, ipfconline in vacation mode :) will be back Sept.4, Lauren Goode, Carissa Véliz, Harold Sinnott, Backchannel, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Brian Ahier, Martina Pugliese, Gerd Leonhard, R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A #AI, Clemens M. Schuster
The Guardian
How to stop China and the US going to war
16+ min · · The long read: Armed conflict between the world’s two superpowers, while not yet inevitable, has become a real possibility. The 2020s will be the decade of living dangerously · Shared by 20, including Martina Pugliese
The Week
Why resurgent antisemitism in America is a problem for us all
4 min · · Antisemitism is a bellwether of a nation going wrong · Shared by 7, including Martina Pugliese
The Atlantic
Whoopi Goldberg’s American Idea of Race
5 min · · The “racial” distinctions between master and slave may be more familiar to Americans, but they were and are no more real than those between Gentile and Jew. · Shared by 46, including Jason Stanley, Martina Pugliese, Jamil Smith جميل كريم, Ibram X. Kendi, Emily "Legacy" Willingham PhD, Victoria
Real Life
Worn Out — Real Life
10 min · · Tech elites’ supposed indifference to fashion is a contempt for the commons · Shared by 93, including Martina Pugliese, TaylorLorenz.Substack.com
The New York Times
What Will Become of Afghanistan’s Post-9/11 Generation?
6 min · · This summer, the journalist Kiana Hayeri set out to photograph Afghans who grew up after the U.S. invasion in 2001. Instead, she wound up documenting the end of life as they knew it. · Shared by 12, including Martina Pugliese
branko2f7.substack.com
Degrowth: solving the impasse by magical thinking
9 min · · The difficulty of discussion with degrowers comes from the fact that they and the rest of us live in two different ideological worlds. Degrowers live in a world of magic, where merely by listing the… · Shared by 22, including felix salmon, Martina Pugliese, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao