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The Monthly Wikimedia Research Showcase is a public showcase of recent research by the Wikimedia Foundation's Research Team and guest presenters from the academic community. The showcase is hosted at the Wikimedia Foundation every 3rd Wednesday of the month at 9:30 a.m. Pacific Time/18:30 p.m. CET

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase

Tamara Kneese | Twitter (X): @tamigraph | Mastodon: @tamigraph

Tamara Kneese is a senior researcher and project director of Data & Society’s AIMLab. Before joining D&S, she was lead researcher at Green Software Foundation, director of developer engagement on the green software team at Intel, and assistant professor of media studies and director of gender and sexualities studies at the University of San Francisco. Her first book, Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond, was published by Yale University Press in August 2023.

Tamara’s research juxtaposes histories of computing and automation with ethnographies of platform labor. She’s currently writing about AI’s relationship to both labor rights and environmental impacts. Her work has been published in academic journals including Social Text and Social Media + Society and in popular outlets including LARB, The Verge, The Atlantic, and Logic Magazine. In her spare time, Tamara is an organizer with the Tech Workers Coalition. She holds a PhD from NYU’s Department of Media, Culture, and Communication.

Tonia Sutherland | Twitter (X): @toniasutherland

Tonia Sutherland is assistant professor of information studies at UCLA. Global in scope, Sutherland’s research focuses on the critical and liberatory in archival studies, digital studies, and science and technology studies, emphasizing the often-messy entanglements of memory, community, and technology.

An internationally recognized expert in the study of Black archival practices and Black digital archives, Sutherland is the author of Resurrecting the Black Body: Race and the Digital Afterlife (University of California Press, 2023) as well as over two dozen research articles and book chapters. She is regularly invited to speak publicly on issues of discrimination and bias in digital technologies.

In addition to her research and teaching, Sutherland is the co-director of the Community Archives Lab at UCLA, co-founder and co-director of AfterLab at the University of Washington’s iSchool, and a member of the advisory board for the Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies at NYU. She holds a PhD and an MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in history, performance studies, and cultural studies from Hampshire College.

New data from federal scientists suggests there may be way more lithium underneath the Salton Sea in Southern California than previously thought.The report from researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory finds there could be up to 18 million metric tons of lithium there. That would be enough to power more than 380 million batteries for electric vehicles.How big of a deal could the Salton Sea turn out to be in terms of its lithium supplies, and what that could mean for EVs and EV batteries?

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Sustainable policies for our water resources.

Exploring infrastructure capacity planning, sustainability in data centers, the future of AI in the industry, the importance of getting outdoors, and much more.

The Superorganism and the future‍ by Nate Hagens, director of the Institute for the Study of Energy & Our Future, host of the Great Simplification podcast. Recorded live at Stockholm Impact Week 2023.

Stockholm Impact Week is an annual Summit hosted by Norrsken and the City of Stockholm, dedicated to defining the critical issues of our time and enabling solutions to them.

Read more about Norrsken Foundation: norrsken.org

Read more about Stockholm Impact/Week 2023: impactweek.se

A talk given by Noam Chomsky a few years back at the Collège de France. He discusses, among other things, what he calls Plato's problem, Orwell's problem, and Descartes' problem, particularly with attention to the history of science and intellectual history.

Chomsky on the Limits of Knowledge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc1hsQWzUKc

Chomsky-Foucault Debate on Justice & Human Nature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpVQ3l5P0A4

#Philosophy #Chomsky #Epistemology

Each iteration of ChatGPT has demonstrated remarkable step function capabilities. But what’s next? Ilya Sutskever, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist at OpenAI, joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil to discuss the origins of OpenAI as a capped profit company, early emergent behaviors of GPT models, the token scarcity issue, next frontiers of AI research, his argument for working on AI safety now, and the premise of Superalignment. Plus, how do we define digital life?

Ilya Sutskever is Co-founder and Chief Scientist of OpenAI. He leads research at OpenAI and is one of the architects behind the GPT models. He co-leads OpenAI's new "Superalignment" project, which tries to solve the alignment of superintelligences in 4 years. Prior to OpenAI, Ilya was co-inventor of AlexNet and Sequence to Sequence Learning. He earned his Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Toronto.

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Ilya Sutskever | LinkedIn

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Show Notes:

(00:00) - Early Days of AI Research

(06:51) - Origins of Open Ai & CapProfit Structure

(13:46) - Emergent Behaviors of GPT Models

(17:55) - Model Scale Over Time & Reliability

(22:23) - Roles & Boundaries of Open-Source in the AI Ecosystem (28:22) - Comparing AI Systems to Biological & Human Intelligence (30:52) - Definition of Digital Life

(32:59) - Super Alignment & Creating Pro Human AI

(39:01) - Accelerating & Decelerating Forces

Open AI CEO Sam Altman participates in a discussion on artificial intelligence with James Manyika, SVP of Research, Technology & Society, Google, and Chris Cox, CPO, Meta.

#Reuters #live #news #openAI #META #Google #APEC

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