Social media companies should be converted into nonprofits

Jul09
by on July 9, 2022 at 3:10 pm
Posted In: Insider, Social Media


This article was originally published on Built In by David Ryan Polgar. “Maybe Twitter should be a nonprofit,” said the high-level Trust and Safety employee. We were standing in Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters discussing the company’s current calamities, namely high levels of hate and harassment and low levels of actual profitability. Rumors were swirling about its possible impending sale. My companion clearly believed that the company was important to the future of communication and, by extension, of democracy itself. Unfortunately, its ad-based business model was in obvious conflict with serving the public interest. If a platform centers its revenue around…

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3 ways next-gen academics can avoid an unnecessary AI winter

Jul08
by on July 8, 2022 at 10:14 pm
Posted In: artificial intelligence, Opinion


There are two realities when it comes to artificial intelligence. In one, the future’s so bright you need to put on welding goggles just to glance at it. AI is a backbone technology that’s just as necessary for global human operations as electricity and the internet. But in the other reality, winter is coming. An “AI winter,” is a period in which nothing can grow. That means nobody’s hiring, nobody’s acquiring, and nobody’s funding. But this impending barren season is special, it won’t affect the entire industry. In fact, most of the experts won’t even notice it. Google, OpenAI, DeepMind, Nvidia,…

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