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Is a fear of AI holding leaders back? Read my thoughts in Management Today ⤵ Management Today https://lnkd.in/ee47qy29

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IS CONSCIOUSNESS possible with AI? Is AGI around the corner? Not a day goes by without this coming up as a question and some folks appear to intentionally approach these complex debates in a way that appeals to their hopes and wishes ✨ Please take a moment to read David Hsing's 2021 post on the topic. For me, it offers a profoundly optimistic take on the capacity of humans to adapt and thrive in most situations. Whether you agree or not with the conclusions - I happen to find David's arguments compelling - it should help you consider different angles. The arguments presented in this post are just as relevant today. David takes care to actually define what he is referring to and runs through many of the most common counterarguments that still come up on LinkedIn every day. If you're an AGI absolutist and don't want to hear anything that goes against your faith and beliefs, this may not be for you 🛑 I've been called all sorts of names for suggesting that "math" is not the answer to Consciousness ("you need to learn more math then"); or that AI lacks many of the fundamental ingredients to derive such an outcome. This post helps to explore the possibility that the topic may be more complex than one might initially think when buoyed by AI hype and excitement. Despite attempting to highlight some of the points articulated so well by David here, in some cases there is nothing to do but move on. It sometimes feels like folks never opened a book before or think that they just stumbled upon concepts that have been debated in some cases for centuries 📚 Let's please not get caught up in reductionist, 'magic' thinking about AI. Let's build useful tools that augment our unique capabilities and deliver performance and reliability. #ai #consciousness #agi #intelligence #llm #genai

Our very existence depends on bees and other pollinators. They help improve global food security, provide livelihoods for millions of people, help maintain biodiversity, and are key to achieving the #GlobalGoals. Yet, these guardians of biodiversity are under threat from human activities. The good news is that we can all help protect bees and support beekeepers by growing native plants, buying raw honey from local farmers, avoiding pesticides and taking #ClimateAction. Learn more from the FAO on Monday’s #WorldBeeDay:  https://lnkd.in/euE7GtVD

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Quote: "Artificial intelligence companies that have spent billions of dollars building so-called large language models to power generative AI products are now banking on a new way to drive revenues: small language models. Apple, Microsoft, Meta and Google have all recently released new AI models with fewer “parameters” — the number of variables used to train an AI system and shape its output — but still with powerful capabilities. The moves are an effort by technology groups to encourage the adoption of AI by businesses who have concerns about the costs and computing power needed to run large language models, the type of technology underpinning popular chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT.  Generally, the higher the number of parameters, the better the AI software’s performance and the more complex and nuanced its tasks can be. OpenAI’s latest model GPT-4o and Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, both announced this week, are estimated to have more than 1tn parameters, and Meta is training a 400bn-parameter version of its open-source Llama model. As well as struggling to convince some enterprise customers to pay the large sums needed to run generative AI products, there are also concerns over data and copyright liability holding back adoption." Source: https://lnkd.in/eYrefYXq

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Justin Hendrix and Tech Policy Press team have been instrumental in bringing some transparency to the Senate AI Insight Forums. CAIDP kept a close eye on the process, while situating within global AI policy activities and commitments. Our analysis & comments in below piece: “The AI Issues Report is a missed opportunity. Poll after poll made clear that Americans see the impact of AI on education, housing, employment, credit, and criminal justice, and they are concerned. They want the government to establish guardrails, to ensure accountability and oversight as these technologies are deployed. Support for AI legislation is bipartisan and widespread. Early on, the Center for AI and Digital Policy objected to the secrecy of the AI Issues Forum. We said Senator Schumer was right to prioritize AI policy but wrong to hold critical meetings behind closed doors. The outcome is not surprising - the powerful had their way, the public was ignored. CAIDP has worked with many governments on AI policy. We are encouraged by lawmakers' efforts to pass laws, including the EU AI Act and the Council of Europe AI Treaty. These laws establish necessary safeguards for AI and make genuine innovation possible. Our annual report, the AI and Democratic Values Index, makes clear the worldwide effort to enact legislation for AI governance. We remain deeply concerned about the situation in the United States. There are many good bipartisan initiatives. There is public support for passage. But so far, there is little progress. We urge Senator Schumer to move forward the pending proposals. The longer the Congress delays, the more difficult these problems will become” https://lnkd.in/g4rSNzDv Marc Rotenberg Christabel R. Selim Alan