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Responsible AI: From Principle to Practice!
Mehrnoosh Sameki, InfoQ, 2023/12/29

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This presentation from Mehrnoosh Sameki, a Principal Product Lead at Microsoft, reminds us that " is a constellation of technologies that can be put to many different uses, with vastly different consequences." It's not about one tool (chatGPT) or one technology (large language models). The talk proceeds from a set of principles (fairness, reliability and safety, privacy and security, inclusiveness, transparency and accountability) and 17 goals. It references a "demo of the Responsible AI dashboard" along with another including error trackers, but we can't see them because the transcript is text-only. There is a window where you can view the presentation - ot's the small dark window in the upper left just above the summary.

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TB872: Systems, situations, and systemic praxis
Doug Belshaw, Open Thinkering, 2023/12/29

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I continue to enjoy Doug Belshaw's reflections on systemic thinking as he works on the course module he's taking. He begins with an analogy that is exactly right in two ways: "it's useful to consider literacies as developing in terms of 'progressive encoding' rather than 'sequential encoding.'" The first way it's right is in its description of the pedagogy of literacy learning: filling out the whole rather than proceeding step by step. The second way it's right is with respect to literacy itself: developing an understand of anything (a text, a concept, a situation) as a whole, rather than as developing in a linear fashion. You can see how this would map to a discussion of systems thinking ('mapping', btw, is an example or progressive, rather than linear, literacy).

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Normcore LLM Reads
Vicki Boykis, Gist, 2023/12/29

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Some good stuff here. "Goals: Add links that are reasonable and good explanations of how stuff works. No hype and no vendor content if possible. Practical first-hand accounts of models in production eagerly sought." Goal achieved. I like especially the image of the LLM evolutionary tree.

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