This is the ADSEI submission to the Australian Parliamentary Inquiry into Artificial Intelligence and Data Centres. The Australian Data Science Education Institute has significant concerns about the unconstrained proliferation of data centres in Australia, as well as the unregulated and unethical implementation of Large Language Model Chatbots (LLMs) by commercial organisations. Our primary concerns centre… Continue reading ADSEI Submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry into Artificial Intelligence and Data Centres
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Regulate Tech Companies, not Users
Social media companies absolve themselves of responsibility for everything. What if we didn't let them?
Pro AI, Anti-hype
The AI Hype industry wants us to believe that megascale LLMs developed and operated unethically and unsustainably are the only possible path to the future, but that's nonsense. Smaller systems designed to do one thing really, really well can be game changing. We can choose the direction we want AI to take.
It All Averages Out
The average might be useful, but it can never describe an individual.
What do we value?
When I'm trying to get a piece of work out the door, I can often be heard muttering to myself "Perfect is the enemy of done." Because the urge to fuss, and edit, and polish until not a blemish can be seen is absolutely fatal to the need to get something finished. I know that,… Continue reading What do we value?