When I feel intimidated learning new things, especially systems, I often think about “Fog of War” mapping in RTS games. A FoW map is obscured in darkness, only to be revealed as you explore, tile by tile, until the entire domain is visible.

In 15mins (1pm ET), I'll be giving a talk about @instdin and our quest to build the most boring dataset in the world. Tune in here:

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RT @ShayneRedford: ✨New Report✨ Our data ecosystem audit across text, speech, and video (✏️,📢,📽️) finds: 📈 Rising reliance on web, synthet…

The key is involving the institutions themselves in the convo. Their missions are as much a reflection of the cultures they help to preserve as the data itself, and integrating them is critical as we look for new models to foster & interact with knowledge.

Just occurred to me that, given the ever evolving nature of language, in my lifetime there may be a word that rhymes with “orange.”

To learn more about the Institutional Data Initiative, read our launch announcement here:

Our goal is to work within the missions of institutions to help unlock and improve access to their collections, not only for AI uses but traditional patron access as well. This work can help expand the breadth of people institutional collections and AI models are able to empower.

As a team of technologists who deeply value knowledge institutions, we designed @instdin as a gear to help the AI and institutional communities, each moving at their own unique speeds, mesh and transfer energy between them. Energy, experience, and expertise.

Data access plays an important role in the development of AI models. It helps define who is represented in them, who they empower, and even who can build them. Data integrity, as a result, is important as well.

@jstn The things, they don’t matter.

@vanlancker Getting better everyday ;)

Listening to @DarioAmodei on @lexfridman talk about state actors using ASL4 models to enhance their cyber / bio / nuclear capabilities, it makes you wonder what the AI equivalent of stuxnet looks like and whether refusing to answer a prompt in all scenarios is the right policy.

Sometimes when I’m shopping Airbnbs I see a gorgeous place available for exactly my dates and think “I can’t wait to empty all the trash cans in this chateau.”