Mozilla Launches 'Responsible AI' Challenge 35
Mozilla called on entrepreneurs to create trustworthy AI applications as it announced a "Responsible AI" challenge Tuesday at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. From a report: At a festival where companies could not be more eager to share their plans, half-baked and otherwise, for the explosive field of generative AI, Mozilla offered an opportunity to do so with a little more foresight. "If anything, the last few months have shown that AI is no longer our future. It's our present," Imo Udom, senior vice president of Innovations Ecosystems at Mozilla, who announced the initiative on stage during a panel discussion with Axios, said. "We believe in AI's power, commercial opportunity, and potential to solve challenging problems," Udom said. "While decades of effort have gone into reaching this point with AI, the time has come to establish the future we want with AI." Applications for the challenge will open on March 30 and winners are eligible for $50,000 prizes and a $25,000 top prize, along with mentorship and resources for "responsible AI" projects.
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baby steps.
there is a whole fertile field out there of initial a i projects.
it is the next level of development that well begin the next level of this renaissance of both hardware and software
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They cannot give much more information because Mozilla hasn't produced any. If you follow the rabbit hole of links all the way to the Mozilla sign up page, it just asks you to input an email address that they will send more details to in the future. Not much else to go on.
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They don't have any working AI projects to be responsible about.
This is like Microsoft launching a "responsibilty in high quality operating systems" challenge
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Respect is earned, not given out like halloween candy.
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Yet your arrogance prevents you from ever seeing where you have misplaced it
Wow, just look how respectful you are [slashdot.org]. Run along kid, honest people would like to have a website without you
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What does "A.I" even mean? (Score:2)
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I'm not sure what the current buzz means, but as the professor of my A.I. computer science class explained: "Weak AI refers to having computers do things in novel ways that haven't been done before. Strong AI is the pursuit of the creation of Lt. Cmdr. Data." I guess currently we're seeing a mixing of these two pursuits.
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presumptions.
no one has asked you about your view point.
it is not to say your view point in invalid.
why
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Well since you've been living under a rock, I'll tell you the news. Cars, toasters, houses, spreadsheets, and programming IDEs are all fully sentient now. Crazy, right?
It's a marketing term (Score:3)
When I read "A.I." ( Artificial Intelligence ) I think of old sci-fi books and movies. Sentient computers.
What does the current buzz term refer to?
Here's [mozilla.org] the relevant web page from the Mozilla website. They aren't ready for prime time, there's no contest rules that I can find, but they'll E-mail you information when it comes available.
I strongly suspect that "Responsible" will be a euphemism for ideology: not allowing behaviour that's strictly legal but baaaaad, so we don't allow it. The analogy that comes to mind is from Rick and Morty: "the sound of which we do not speak because it does not exist".
I'm doing AI research as my day job right now, and
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They probably haven't come up with the rules themselves y
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The simple answer is that there is no such thing as "AI". They're expert systems, and people deeper in than I say they follow stochastic algorithms.
One, who I trust, notes that the models do *not* circle back, and so don't "understand" what they're saying. In effect... all they are is autocorrect writ large.
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For over half a century AI has been used by researchers as a term describing the simulation of intelligence in machines in order to complete complex tasks. This includes things like playing chess and identifying if a picture has a cat in it. One sub-discipline of AI is the field is artificial general intelligence (AGI), which deals with concepts such as sentient computers. This is also often called "strong" AI, while all practical uses of AI so far are examples of "weak" or "narrow" AI.
While early practical
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> Today we are starting to hear more discussions
about AGI being possible within a few decades
And it will be powered by fusion!
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> What does the current buzz term refer to?
Glorified table lookup. It has zero [youtube.com] understanding of the symbols it is predicting and matching aka ML (Machine Learning) or a.i. (artificial ignorance).
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> What does the current buzz term refer to?
Glorified table lookup. It has zero [youtube.com] understanding of the symbols it is predicting and matching aka ML (Machine Learning) or a.i. (artificial ignorance).
Define "understanding".
These language models definitely don't have a mathematical model or a capability for rational inferences.
But they're able to create poems in a given style and theme, [reddit.com] following instructions and subject to constraints; e.g. they're reasonably good at the model they've been trained at.
That requires certain level of understanding of the topics described by those symbols; even if it doesn't possess any consciousness and the 'understanding' is a Chinese-room-like capability to follow instru
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AI is modern advertizing buzzword speak for what used to be known as a decision tree. ML (machine learning) is a modern advertizing buzzword whcih means that building of the "model" that is the result of applying (what used to be called) Statistical Analysis is done by the machine itself rather than being filtered by a human.
In short, everything old is new again because the children have renamed it.
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Chump change (Score:1)
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Hey Mozilla (Score:2, Insightful)
How about you focus on not alienating users of your shitty browser and making an email client that I can actually get working (not everyone uses the same server for sending and receiving with the same login) rather than busying yourself with what others are doing.
Get your own house in check first.
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Indeed very few do. But there's no reason why the login and password fields for both servers need to be the same. They never used to be. I was a happy Thunderbird user for years before they refreshed their interface and tried to get all automatic with the setup process. Don't get me wrong everyone does it, but even Microsoft in their shitty free email client gives you the option of a different username and password for each server.
and that hasn't been a problem for anyone.
Actually a quick google search will show it has been a complaint for quite a
Why describe it, right? (Score:2)
I mean everyone knows and agrees what that means. But I've got this friend who isn't so sure... so maybe next time DEFINE what you mean. Not tell me how much money they're giving out, where it was announced, who announced whatever, etc.
I
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yet.
Does that include vendors ... (Score:1)
Americans lost more than $10 billion to online scammers last year, new government data show,
Does that include vendors that advertise and sell thrid-party knock-offs of parts that need periodic replacement (such as air filter elements) "[BrandName] replacement [whatever type of part]"?
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Sorry. That was supposed to be attached to "Americans Lost a Record $10.3 Billion To Online Scammers Last Year, FBI Says", not "Mozilla Launches 'Responsible AI' Challenge"