When Bitcoin Meets AI With Aleks Svetski
A couple months ago, Oxford and Cambridge researchers illustrated the risk of homogeneity in a study of AI Generated content in Nature magazine. The risk increases as AI gets trained not only on human-created content, but on other AI-generated content.
As an example, the researchers studied an AI model trained on images of different breeds of dogs.
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Fifth, the heavy dependence of contemporary AI on training sets can also lead to a pernicious echo-chamber effect, in which a system ends up being trained on data that it generated itself earlier.
Ernest Davis • Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust
In a digitally decentralized world where generative AI can lower the barriers of creation even farther than ever before, and bots can be trained under the perspective of your choosing, an already fractured reality becomes at risk for disintegration. Or, as science-fiction writer and professional futurist Madeline Ashby told us in a recent interview... See more
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report

Economists have observed
a longstanding pattern in reform movements of this kind. The actors within movements like these fall into two categories – “Baptists” and “Bootleggers” – drawing on the historical example of the prohibition of alcohol in the United States in the 1920’s:
Baptists
“Baptists” are the true believer social reformers who legitimate... See more
a longstanding pattern in reform movements of this kind. The actors within movements like these fall into two categories – “Baptists” and “Bootleggers” – drawing on the historical example of the prohibition of alcohol in the United States in the 1920’s:
Baptists
“Baptists” are the true believer social reformers who legitimate... See more