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Biotech / Medical : 2023 Biotech Charity Contest -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ErikOtto who wrote (206)	12/29/2023 11:25:37 AM
From: technetium	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 233

I like the West End House: westendhouse.org Thank you and everyone for participating. Happy New Year!

To: ErikOtto who wrote (206)	12/30/2023 3:25:32 PM
From: technetium	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 233

I donated to CAIS. While AI is here to stay, it needs some oversight. ———— Garbage In, Garbage Out is an old phrase we need to be reminded of when AI gives recommendations based on the same old, same old, when that includes inherent biases and mere ramblings scraped from the web. I’m not sure why AI is known to “hallucinate” or invent citations for scientific papers or legal proceedings when it could just look it up in well known databases, but, of course, using the latter often means actually having to pay to access carefully curated data. Making stuff up is much easier, especially when “what words are most likely to follow each other in response to this set of criteria” is the go to model of AI, including large language models, where “somebody somewhere said something like this” is the sole criterion for inclusion. ———— ———— I’m not trying to bring politics into this thread, but Michael Cohen just irritated a judge because his lawyer used what Cohen gave him: “Michael Cohen gave lawyer fraudulent case citations generated by AI” thehill.com Cohen argues that he is a non-lawyer, and expected that his (presumably well paid) lawyer would vet the citations before presenting them in legal filings. Oops.

To: ErikOtto who wrote (206)	12/30/2023 8:43:41 PM
From: A.J. Mullen	Respond to of 233

I paddled around the FLI website and came across Erik's name: Featured new donor: Erik Otto "We increasingly need effective institutions dedicated to mitigating catastrophic risks associated with our tightly connected, tech-driven world. The Future of Life Institute has been adept at enacting creative, cost-effective strategies to address these issues, and I am very happy to support their continued resolve." I donate through my broker Charles Schwab. They had a Future of Life Institute with an address in MA, rather than PA. The EIN was given on by Schwab but I couldn't find the EIN on the FLI's website to check they were the same, so I donated to CAIS instead,. CAIS's address tallied with the one given by Schwab. Giving to West End house in honor of Technetium was easy because I made the same donation last year. Congratulations to Technetium for running a fun contest, and to Erik for winning it convincingly. Ashley