Governments and private companies should contribute to a global artificial intelligence fund that will allow developing nations to benefit from advances in the technology, according to a UN report.
The fund would help provide models, computing power and AI-related training programmes, according to recommendations from the UN secretary general’s high-level AI advisory body.
Once everyone’s got the bugs worked out, worked out what AI is actually useful for – if anything – then the tech is going to be available for peanuts to all.
New techs are, after all, public goods. We only need the one development of it globally….
“New techs are, after all, public goods.”
Imagine “the Global Smartphone Fund” of just 20 years ago…
Dame Wendy Hall, professor of computer science at the University of Southampton and a member of the UN’s advisory body on AI, said the western world must not make the same mistakes with the technology that it made with the climate crisis.
Is there anybody with a gong who isn’t a complete arserocket?
Fuck off with your retarded weather cult.
“If we don’t address an issue like a global AI fund now, we risk going down the same route as we did with climate change where developed countries are able to address the problem and race ahead while the global south is left behind and doesn’t have the capacity to address it,” she said.
Do you ever wish you had an IQ of 100 so you too could join in the mongolised dribbling?
The report also recommends the creation of an international scientific panel on AI which would issue an annual report on AI-related “capabilities, opportunities, risks and uncertainties”. It warns that no global framework exists to govern AI and that the technology could be imposed on people without them having any say in the process.
When AI turns out to be sentient – and racist – I am gonna laugh so hard while hiding from the hunter-killer models and their pyramids of human skulls.
I just found out that “Avatar: the Way of Water” made over £2.2Bn, so it’s not as if we don’t deserve to be hunted to extinction.
Am I the only one here who suspects “The Global South’ is essentially a euphemism for: “We’re thick, useless, unproductive fuckers so give us your money”?
What is so special about AI? if it ever gets here anyway because it doesn’t exist now.
If items are developed using this ML then it get sold around the world including those areas where there are no computers. Someone develops a water treatment for example it will get to them.
The issue is that the benefits of technology have mainly been realised. The other side of technology is what is being generated now. Tools to oppress us and transfer wealth to the top. ML just accelerated that.
Nothing says “please ignore me” quite like
There is the matter of hardware costs. But here’s the thing. Developing countries will get richer by just doing regular old computing. Nigerians cutting code for a lower rate than I do. Rago and Oba will be making a ton of money from this. Microsoft have places in Kenya and Nigeria since they got better undersea cables and AST, Starlink are going to make internet even cheaper.
And this is way. Not AI and ML. That’s the worst thing for Africa to be doing because it’s a load of highly speculative shit, where doing ecommerce websites is a guaranteed money maker. I’m sure someone is going to make money from it, but a huge percentage of “AI” investment is going to be a bust, same as the first gen of websites were. It doesn’t matter if a load of Californian multimillionaires get slightly poorer, but I think Africa should probably go for things that are more certain at this point.
The biggest AI firms are keen on this as it would mean a regulatory barrier to smaller start-ups that might eat their lunch otherwise. They’d also get the lion’s share of the funding.
That’s exactly what it means, Norman. The same people who will tell you Africans built the Western worlds infrastructure will tell you, often in the same breath, they are too dim to learn to code and so deserve to be subsidised .
I had to chuckle at Anand Menon, Director of UKICE, who’s just had his funding from 2025 canned:
“. . .work of UKICE, enabling social scientists based for the most part in UK universities to communicate more effectively with non-academic audiences, is a ‘public good.’ ”
Surely wrong – once you’ve organised your first conference, all the later ones pay for themselves do they.
The 2 day Reform Conference starts tomorrow in Birmingham if anyone’s in the area and the trains are running. UKICE won’t be there, (they only go to Lib/Con/Lab) so it should be a decent event. I hope that JSO don’t show.
Anand Menon: Another moron who doesn’t understand what a “public good” is. If he ceases to host his conferences, his conferences are unavailable to the public. Therefore his conferences are *NOT* a public good.
Conferences *in* *general* are a public good. If Anand Menon stop a holding his economics conferences, that doesn’t prevent somebody going to somebody else’s model railway conference.
The fund would help provide models, computing power and AI-related training programmes, according to recommendations from the UN secretary general’s high-level AI advisory body.
When I first saw ‘models’, I naturally thought they meant ‘escorts’ – given that we were talking about the U.N.