Timeline for Our partnership with Google and commitment to socially responsible AI
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| Aug 2 at 19:52 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard | @starball I don't think the Sprint has anything to do with the Google partnership, or AI. It's their attempt to calm down the clamour, nothing more. Anyway, this is what Rosie meant here in the "Those announcements will be coming soon". | |
| Aug 2 at 17:39 | comment | added | Shadur-don't-feed-the-AI | @starball None of the answers in that one address the complaints set out in the discussion on this page. | |
| Aug 2 at 16:33 | comment | added | starball | @Shadur-don't-feed-the-AI meta.stackexchange.com/q/401060/997587 ? | |
| Aug 2 at 11:54 | comment | added | Shadur-don't-feed-the-AI | This answer aged like fine milk. | |
| May 7 at 16:06 | comment | added | ColleenV | @ShadowWizardLoveZelda I think this was after the omission of the 6-8 weeks joke was noticed in a comment: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/398127/… I think the winky smile seals that it was a reference to the joke. | |
| May 7 at 10:49 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard | @dan1st nope, from the way of writing sounds like Rosie actually meant it literally, making us hope it will really be under 8 weeks. | |
| May 7 at 10:01 | comment | added | dan1st | @ShadowWizardLoveZelda It's 6-8 weeks, not 8 weeks at maximum. | |
| May 7 at 9:59 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard | "those updates will be coming in weeks, not months". Well, it's been over 8 weeks now. Did I miss an update? | |
| May 6 at 17:44 | comment | added | ColleenV | OK, it's May, I checked back, and it's not looking much better to me. Best of luck trying to ride out the AI hype-fueled data grabs. I've got to figure out how to be a tech optimist and luddite simultaneously lol. I still want my flying car but not if it's going to steal all my know-how for some giant corporation's AI model so they can sell it back to me in a tool that will make flying my car easier. | |
| Mar 27 at 14:07 | comment | added | Rosie StaffMod | As I promised the other week we would be posting about upcoming initiatives. meta.stackexchange.com/questions/398734/… | |
| Mar 17 at 10:55 | comment | added | Rounin | A minor gripe, @Rosie, but please can things not be described as exciting, constantly? Just describe the thing. We'll decide whether it's exciting or not. The same with all other value-judgements. You don't have to insert editorial into your news announcements. Ta. | |
| Mar 13 at 5:00 | comment | added | David Roberts | Can you update this answer to link to these updates as they are announced? I otherwise have little idea what specific things that get announced might be connected to this, when coming to this page for information. | |
| Mar 9 at 1:08 | comment | added | guest271314 | "...and others have asked what the community is getting out of this. We can’t discuss financial and contract details..." I'm not interested in your finanicial details. I'm interested in vetting the claims made so far. Re "...to improve their community engagement experiences and content curation processes." How is exactly is "improve" measured?" | |
| Mar 1 at 12:52 | comment | added | FreeMan | It's good to know, @ColleenV, that I don't seem to be the only one who remembers Google's now failed promise to "do no evil" that they made when they launched their IPO. | |
| Mar 1 at 6:35 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek | I honestly think their money is as good as anyones if it goes into the long term good of the community. I am somewhat less than enthused at how things have gone post acquisition - so if they can do better than they did in the past year or two, it would be good. | |
| Feb 29 at 19:54 | comment | added | ColleenV | Thanks - I'm trying to not be super cynical about this. I'll check back in May and reassess the situation, but it looks very bleak to me right now. Alphabet is the last company I would trust to be ethical with their use of AI. I have forbidden my financial advisor from investing my money in Alphabet; it's unlikely I'm going to be inclined to volunteer my time in exchange for what, chat upgrades? Integrating their tainted AI into SE so that not only am I curating the model data, I'm reinforcement training it for free too? Sorry. I'm taking a break until I can be more constructive. | |
| Feb 29 at 19:49 | comment | added | Thomas Owens | By "public platform", do you mean "Stack Overflow" or the rest of the network? Although there are plenty of things that I've seen SO (both mods and the community) ask for, and due to their size and scale, they have needs that other sites don't have, there are also things that would benefit the network as a whole. Where will the focus be? | |
| Feb 29 at 19:14 | comment | added | Kevin B | I don’t exactly trust they’d be things we want.. with the track record of other things that the company couldn’t talk about yet but were announcing soon… | |
| Feb 29 at 19:06 | history | answered | RosieStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |