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关于慎独和走出舒适区

1.上次说到在帝都工作的经历，回顾周围非常优秀的伙伴，可以一试。主要是见识更多伙伴，更好地处理很多职场关系。

2.关于慎独。以前有个香港女歌手，梁咏琪，曾分享过一个经验：如果有作词、作曲灵感，会用语音Mail记录下来。我自己实践，觉得慎独的时候，通过语音方式，梳理大脑皮层的信息，非常管用。第二个经验，是写板书。具体操作是，放一块白板在起居室或者客厅，有想法就写下来，逐渐会发现，原来脑袋里塞了那么多东西。

3.朝九晚六的同学思考升职这件事，可以考虑加入一些社群，例如得到、诺言这类的。

复习单词

Embroiled, Polarizing, Jockeying, Grappled with someone, Snag, Aspirants, Batter, Sentient, Courtesies, Celebre, Encroaching into, Innermost lives

谷歌人工智能言出奇特（翻译）

文章来自于流利说。

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Forget Sentience, the Worry Is That AI Copies Human Bias

'I want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person. 'Soclaimed a Google software program, creating a bizarre controversy over the past week in AI circles and beyond.

The programme is called LaMDA, an acronym for Language Model for Dialogue Applications, a project run by Google. The human to whom it declared itself a person was Blake Lemoine, a senior software engineer at Google. He believes that LaMDA is sentient and should be accorded the same rights and courtesies as any other sentient being. When Google rejected his claims, he published his conversations with LaMDA on his blog. At which point, Google suspended him for having made public company secrets and the whole affair became an international cause célèbre.

There are many issues relating to AI about which we should worry. None of them has to do with sentience. There is, for instance, the issue of bias. Because algorithms and other forms of software are trained using data from human societies, they of ten replicate the biases and attitudes of those societies.

Then there is the question of privacy. From the increasing use of facial recognition software to predictive policing techniques, from algorithms that track us online to 'smart' systems at home, AI is encroaching into our innermost lives.

We do not need consent from LaMDA to 'experiment' on it. But we do need to insist on greater transparency from tech corporations and state institutions in the way they are exploiting AI for surveillance and control.