Kindrobot : Who ? Why ? How ?

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The main part of this article was written in 2017. 6 years after a lot has changed but many important questions remain on the table.

[Text from 2017]
Artificial intelligence does become an important topic and everyone's business. When we hear about enthusiastic reactions from technical, marketing and financial parts of the society, we have a great idea of the growing buzz around the subject.
Our phones, computers, cars, hospitals already use these technologies.
Things are going fast.
The technological revolution has begun. Impacts will appear everywhere in our lives within 10 years.
Many personal "thinking" assistant will pop up in our living rooms. Chatbots, image recognition, speech recognition.
More and more data will be collected, analyzed to feed the models. Data that we provide everyday and which is sometimes used without our clear consent.
[/Text from 2017]

[2023 Update]
The rise of Large Language Models begins to shape our link with creatitivy, reality, efficiency.
Even our relation to work is challenged by those new tools.
Has this recent rise helped in creating and promoting clarity and transparency? How inclusive or even helpful is AI today?
For example, OpenAI switched from a open source approach to an aggressive commercial one to annihilate concurrency. In the meantime, we seem to forget (or some of us let us forget on purpose) that the very roots of AI come from the open source world through research, universities, and massively public data.
[/2023 Update]

Already in 2017 the need for clarity, transparency was growing.
Today in 2023, this need is still here as those tools do affect our lives more and more. It's more important than ever to share knowledge around those emerging technologies and powers.

Many questions come almost instantly to our minds:

  • Will companies and editors play this transparency game or will they rather try to avoid questions to preserve their interests and "advance" in the AI race?
  • How do we know that those technologies are developed for our own good as citizens?
  • How do we know that biases are correctly handled or at least their existence is communicated properly?
  • Do we need to draw a clear line between human creativity and synthetic creativity and is it even a question?
  • How do we prevent deep fakes and fake news to spread in a world where synthetic content can become the norm?
  • Is there a real battle of intelligence between humans and machines?

Kindrobot's objectives

  • Promote and stream knowledge
  • Highlight clarity and transparency
  • Facilitate sharing and open communication
  • Encourage questions
  • Carry knowledge and practices about artificial intelligence in public places, companies...
  • Make this black box a transparent box for everybody and specially non-IT people

Kindrobot's "tools"

www.kindrobot.org

A blog, started in 2017, abandonned a bit that I'll try to respawn to achieve several goals:

  • Publish relevant and accessible content to a large audience :
    • from day life stories
    • from verified sources
    • from experts speeches
    • from conferences
    • from university studies
    • from your questions, remarks, links, ideas
    • Build a knowledge database with articles bookmarks, tweets.

    Advanced skills in computing and IT technologies.

    To be able to filter, understand and provide explanations and relevant information.
    To develop experiences and be able to explain methodology and tools.
    A few word on the author here : I'm Julien, human and initiator of kindrobot

    Kindrobot is a base for sharing information and knowledge.

    If you want to give me feedbacks, you have several options.

    • Follow me on twitter
    • Share blog articles
    • Send me links, sources ideas, experiments.

    Twitter account: @kindrobot_org

    To manage spontaneous interactions, keep track of the latest news.
    React when necessary to mainly dissolve this idea of magic powers and warn about "snake oil".

    Email address: julien@kindrobot.org

    To receive your questions, your ideas, potential collaborations.

    Kindrobot is not

    • a boxing ring
    • a commercial showcase to sell a particular product

    Kindrobot is not a genuine robot. Its content is not synthetic. Mainly human written so far:-)

    A simple tool to inform, explain concepts, make this "magic" more transparent, mitigate the hype.

    Published: 2023-10-08 07:00:00 +0000 UTC