Vox

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In a recent paper , she and her co-authors explained why “open source” AI isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. And when, in March, AI leaders (and Elon Musk) signed an open letter urging all labs to press pause on powerful AI, she withheld her signature. They could unplug the data centers. They could whistleblow.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In a recent paper , she and her co-authors explained why “open source” AI isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. And when, in March, AI leaders (and Elon Musk) signed an open letter urging all labs to press pause on powerful AI, she withheld her signature. They could unplug the data centers. They could whistleblow.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 12, 2022

Incoming Fred Hutch chief data officer Jeffrey Leek. Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has recruited a new vice president and chief data officer: biostatistician and data science educator Jeffrey Leek. Jeffrey Leek: I am excited about the chance of building a data ecosystem at an institutional scale.

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Vox

MARCH 6, 2023

Because of increasing volumes of data on the internet, the average cost of training the kinds of machine learning models that generative AI runs on could grow as large as $500 million to train a single model by 2030, according to a recent report by advanced AI research group EpochAI. —Nat

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Vox

MARCH 4, 2023

Generative AI is already starting to find its way into mainstream applications for everything from food shopping to social media. And the open-source model Stable Diffusion can generate detailed and specific images in all kinds of styles from text prompts. And then those models are fed enormous amounts of data to train on.

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Vox

JANUARY 12, 2021

Signal, once a niche messaging service for the privacy-minded, is currently the most downloaded app in the United States, unseating perennially popular social media and gaming apps. Previously, the number of new Signal users has rocketed up following social or political unrest. What makes Signal different?

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

She led a research project on the Future of Data and investigated topics such as 3D printing, social enterprise, and the evolving role of the state. Chung has been a Co-Curator of TEDxSingapore, and she continues to advise teams of undergraduate students about their management consulting projects for clients in the social sector.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Like Wikipedia, social media companies run on user-generated content, and they’re once again scrambling to come up with ways to stop the spread of misinformation and disinformation on their platforms. Wikipedia is hosted by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, which covers its associated costs, including servers, software, and legal fees.

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Vox

APRIL 15, 2021

The CommonPass was launched by the Commons Project, a nonprofit initiative that focuses on digital health. Some are worried that working with an app means their health data will be compromised. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network. A screenshot of Carbon Health’s vaccine app notes two doses.

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Vox

JANUARY 20, 2021

Here are some of the most pervasive election conspiracy theories and false claims being shared on social media around Inauguration Day. That these theories continue to spread on social media impacts all of us, regardless of whether or not we believe them. We live in a social world, and people’s beliefs do have consequences.”

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The center would allow visitors to learn about the company’s data storage and content moderation practices, and even to inspect the algorithms that power its core recommendation engine. “We We also got an overview of the app’s community guidelines, its approach to child safety, and how it keeps data secure. You can’t prove a negative.

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