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Why ‘open’ AI systems are actually closed, and why this matters | Nature

#AI #freesoftware #accountability #AIrisks #open | This paper examines ‘open’ artificial intelligence (AI). Claims about ‘open’ AI often lack precision, frequently eliding scrutiny of substantial industry concentration in large-scale AI development and deployment, and often incorrectly applying understandings of ‘open’ imported from free and open-source software to AI systems. At present, powerful actors are seeking to shape policy using claims that ‘open’ AI is either beneficial to innovation and democracy, on the one hand, or detrimental to safety, on the other. When policy is being shaped, definitions matter. To add clarity to this debate, we examine the basis for claims of openness in AI, and offer a material analysis of what AI is and what ‘openness’ in AI can and cannot provide: examining models, data, labour, frameworks, and computational power. We highlight three main affordances of ‘open’ AI, namely transparency, reusability, and extensibility, and we observe that maximally ‘open’ AI allows some forms of oversight and experimentation on top of existing models. However, we find that openness alone does not perturb the concentration of power in AI. Just as many traditional open-source software projects were co-opted in various ways by large technology companies, we show how rhetoric around ‘open’ AI is frequently wielded in ways that exacerbate rather than reduce concentration of power in the AI sector. A review of the literature on artificial intelligence systems to examine openness reveals that open AI systems are actually closed, as they are highly dependent on the resources of a few large corporate actors.

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Justicio, el archivero de la legislación estatal, autonómica y europea, gratuito, abierto y para todos

#AI #laws | Soy Justicio el archivero de la legislación estatal, autonómica y europea, gratuito, abierto y para todos

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ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot

#AI #ChatGPT #OpenAI | Here's a ChatGPT guide to help understand Open AI's viral text-generating system. We outline the most recent updates and answer your FAQs.

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Envisioning Information Access Systems: What Makes for Good Tools and a Healthy Web?

#AI #knowledge #interfaces #search | We observe a recent trend toward applying large language models (LLMs) in search and positioning them as effective information access systems. While the interfaces may look appealing and the apparent breadth of applicability is exciting, we are concerned ...

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Situating Search

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Why the AI Hype is Another Tech Bubble by Luciano Floridi :: SSRN

#AI #hype | This article argues that the current hype surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) exhibits characteristics of a tech bubble, based on parallels with five previ

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Welcome to State of AI Report 2024

#AI | The State of AI Report seeks to trigger informed conversation about the state of AI and its implication for the future.

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The Trust Advice - AI Software Matchmaker

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