YES I am confused in terms of “releasing models” and “public participation”. Very very much.
I don’t think it’s just me though.
The Google ethics team is confused too: Margaret Mitchell went to do Hugging face and Timnit Gebru went to do public participation.
All of this is tricky, like, there’s a culture war in many countries and somehow in those conditions we need to do a discussion about AI. We can’t not do it: secrets will only make it worse, because of lack of feedback, backlash, and lack of oversight.
Releasing models makes them more easy to inspect but also opens doors to bad actors.
It’s a mess.
It’s more like the whole industry is confused.
What seems reasonable is to slow all this down a bit. It’s likely that a lot of ML people are burned out working so fast and not thinking clearly.
We saw Yudkowsky talking on Twitter and trying to save everyone—that doesn’t seem like things are going particularly well.
As you have seen, I am definitely for slowing things down—all in for that.
How can we do that, so later we can discuss all this mess, at least be in a sane state for that?
To be more object-level,
YES I am confused in terms of “releasing models” and “public participation”. Very very much.
I don’t think it’s just me though.
The Google ethics team is confused too: Margaret Mitchell went to do Hugging face and Timnit Gebru went to do public participation.
All of this is tricky, like, there’s a culture war in many countries and somehow in those conditions we need to do a discussion about AI. We can’t not do it: secrets will only make it worse, because of lack of feedback, backlash, and lack of oversight.
Releasing models makes them more easy to inspect but also opens doors to bad actors.
It’s a mess.
It’s more like the whole industry is confused.
What seems reasonable is to slow all this down a bit. It’s likely that a lot of ML people are burned out working so fast and not thinking clearly.
We saw Yudkowsky talking on Twitter and trying to save everyone—that doesn’t seem like things are going particularly well.
As you have seen, I am definitely for slowing things down—all in for that.
How can we do that, so later we can discuss all this mess, at least be in a sane state for that?