Luis Villa
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I do a lot of opens, at Wikipedia, Mozilla, Creative Commons, and elsewhere.
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Making God · EmilyGorcenski.com
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The most salient reason neoclassical economics became dominant in policy circles is that it was allied with a general revanchist business interest squeezed by late-60s/early 70s crisis. But we should not forget that it also presented the policymakers dealing that crisis something that more heterodox approaches did not: parsimony.
Suresh Naidu • In Praise of Blindspots
“it presented the policymakers…with… parsimony”
Today Google released Gemini with a 60-page report in which they repeatedly say the training data is key ("We find that data quality is critical to a highly-performing model"), while providing almost no information about how it was made, how it was filtered, or its contents.
There’s a hard coming problem about what it means for dominant platforms to allow fair and reasonable competition. In AI, it’s going to center around access to data. Here, there’s an interesting passage on when/how Apple will allow competing app stores.
Issue Brief Considerations for Governing Open Foundation Models
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Note that AI scraping is cited as a driver here.
My TED Talk is Out!
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Apple announces LLM in a flash: Efficient Large Language Model Inference with Limited Memory
paper page: https://huggingface.co/papers/2312.11514... See more
Older piece on thinking through what it means to have “openness” in automated decision-making.