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Are there any positive AI communities that don't have the problems noted on this subreddit? (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/12j3h4h/are_there_any_positive_ai_communities_that_dont/)
posted on April 12, 2023 12:24 AM by u/throwawaydthrowawayd
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I love AI, but most of the communities for AI I can find either:

  1. Actually hate AI, or

  2. Have horrible politics/beliefs, as noted in this subreddit.

I would love a more leftist community where people are excited about AI.

u/supercalifragilism 91 points at 1681259979.000000

Just look for machine learning groups instead of AI and you’re more likely to find sanity.

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u/throwawaydthrowawayd 5 points at 1681315283.000000
I do also love to read the down-to-earth discussions and the actual science, but no one there is excited, y'know? Maybe I should be avoiding excitement but I can't help it.
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u/supercalifragilism 19 points at 1681316610.000000
No I get it, a lot of the work in this field is fantastic, has incredible potential to change the world for the better and legitimately interesting in what it tells us about cognition in general. But we're in the midst of the crypto/web3 to AI pipeline of grifters, so the term AI is going to be increasingly squatted on by people who are trying to sell you something.
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u/verasev 2 points at 1681853861.000000
Is the greythumb website still any good? I remember they had pretty measured examinations of AI back a decade ago.
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u/grotundeek_apocolyps 31 points at 1681275635.000000

r/MachineLearning, for mostly adult conversations regarding practical AI.

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u/Necessary-Meringue-1 8 points at 1681339661.000000
That sub has really suffered from the release fo GPT4, but there is no escaping that. It is still the most sane place for ML/AI discussions on reddit that I know.
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u/ThePerson654321 2 points at 1681696037.000000
And also possible the internet.
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u/supercalifragilism 3 points at 1681305270.000000
My man.
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u/sue_me_please 24 points at 1681276299.000000

Follow actual researchers and practitioners, and not people selling books or appearing on podcasts or tweeting 100 times a day.

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u/ekpyroticflow 6 points at 1681263213.000000

DAIR

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u/liberonscien 13 points at 1681266773.000000

The AWAY Collective are pretty nice folks. The founder of the group is a queer anarchist who hates crypto and other techno-capitalism.

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u/DELETED 11 points at 1681305095.000000
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u/liberonscien 9 points at 1681306482.000000
We have a website now? Huh, some of this art is really good.
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u/_ShadowElemental 1 points at 1681715478.000000
Seconded, that art is beautiful.
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u/Sirtemmie 1 points at 1681756713.000000
Not being hostile here, but what exactly, would you say is ethical use of ML art? I'm neutral on it as a tool but skeptical about it when it comes to its potential uses. What sets were the networks trained on?
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u/Soyweiser 5 points at 1681301239.000000

Helps if you explain what you mean with ai. Do you mean machine learning or agi or the specific types of llm now popular?

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