AI Perspectives

Perspective Pieces

• Why LLMs Are Hitting a Wall The Low-Hanging Fruit Has Been Eaten - well written perspective on the plateauing performance of LLMs as of December 2024. Rich for its links to reference material e.g. the piece in Time on OpenAI’s contracting of Kenyan workers in February 2022 via Sama.
• Why I attack - was pointed to this by Giuseppe. By Nicholas Carlini
• When does generative AI qualify for fair use? - thepost from Suchir Balaji

AI Regulation

• An introduction to Codes of Practice for the AI Act EU Artificial Intelligence Act
• Meta won’t bring future multimodal AI models to EU
• Meta Rolls Out Multimodal Llama 3.2 — But Not in Europe - Slator
  • Can Llama3.2 Vision be used by researchers in europe rLocalLLaMA
• Ensuring AI innovation in Europe Open letter to EU policymakers - this is https://euneedsai.com/
• Llama 3.2 Acceptable Use Policy
• meta-llamaLlama-3.2-11B-Vision · Why EXACTLY this model is not available in Europe - Hugging Face Community discussion on meta-llama/Llama-3.2-11B-Vision repo 🤗

AI & Society

• Exclusive The $2 Per Hour Workers Who Made ChatGPT Safer
• Inside an AI Training for Doctors
  • question I was confused by the claims that the PII/PHI doesn’t leave wondering Northwell Health’s walls but that the clinicians are offered access to Gemini, Claude etc in the app, which would be routed via APIs. How does this work?
  • asked Sam Cole on Twitter/X (no response)
• College students used Meta’s smart glasses to dox people in real time - The Verge

Articles & Excerpts

AI’s Walking Dog - Boston Review by Brian Eno

Yet AI is part of the wave of technologies that are making it easier for people to live their lives in complete independence from each other, and even from their own inner lives and self-interest.

In my own experience as an artist, experimenting with AI has mixed results. I’ve used several “songwriting” AIs and similar “picture-making” AIs. I’m intrigued and bored at the same time: I find it quickly becomes quite tedious. I have a sort of inner dissatisfaction when I play with it, a little like the feeling I get from eating a lot of confectionery when I’m hungry. I suspect this is because the joy of art isn’t only the pleasure of an end result but also the experience of going through the process of having made it. When you go out for a walk it isn’t just (or even primarily) for the pleasure of reaching a destination, but for the process of doing the walking. For me, using AI all too often feels like I’m engaging in a socially useless process, in which I learn almost nothing and then pass on my non-learning to others. It’s like getting the postcard instead of the holiday. Of course, it is possible that people find beauty and value in the Weisswurst, but that says more about the power of the human imagination than the cleverness of AI.

Brian Eno is a musician, producer, visual artist, and activist. In 2019 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Roxy Music.