@jalefkowit Let 'developing countries' develop themselves.
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"Have you even CONSIDERED the productivity benefits of applying frontier models to agentic workflows," the Peace Corps guy says to a local who just keeps repeating "clean water"
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@jalefkowit so the Peace Corps -- the brainchild of a labor union leader, and founded by a US president whose stated goal was to counter stereotypes of "Yankee imperialism" -- has now been perverted into an emissary for digital colonialism, global surveillance, strikebreaking, laborforce deskilling, and oligarchic dominance. Awesome. Yet another JFK legacy being shat on by this administration.
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@jalefkowit Wow. This makes all the other projects we've run in developing countries which aggressively missed the whole point seem quaint and, in comparison, not abysmal failures.
"To save time asking people what they needed, we asked AI duplicates of them instead and they said they really needed more AI!"
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"Have you even CONSIDERED the productivity benefits of applying frontier models to agentic workflows," the Peace Corps guy says to a local who just keeps repeating "clean water"
@jalefkowit This is uncanny. A guy where I work was doing a presentation where he gushed about how a woman in a village in a developing county could diagnose the cause of her child’s fever and diarrhea using AI: I said it sounded like they could use clean drinking water much more than AI. Really took the wind out of the presenter’s sails but he needed a reality check.
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@jalefkowit @davidgerard excellent premise for the next terminator sequel, less excellent public policy goal
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"Have you even CONSIDERED the productivity benefits of applying frontier models to agentic workflows," the Peace Corps guy says to a local who just keeps repeating "clean water"
@jalefkowit poorsperity AI
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"Have you even CONSIDERED the productivity benefits of applying frontier models to agentic workflows," the Peace Corps guy says to a local who just keeps repeating "clean water"
@jalefkowit ask ChatGPT how to build a well, duh.
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"Have you even CONSIDERED the productivity benefits of applying frontier models to agentic workflows," the Peace Corps guy says to a local who just keeps repeating "clean water"
@jalefkowit So the AI prosperity gospel?
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My first thought is that excellent piece the Swedish newspapers worked on wrt Meta glasses and folks in Nairobi being the real AI. So perhaps folks there are already aware of how to use AI.
https://nordictimes.com/tech/meta-ray-ban-glasses-recording-private-moments-kenya/
Original in Swedish https://www.gp.se/nyheter/gp-granskar/sa-kan-dina-toalettbesok-hamna-pa-en-skarm-i-kenya.2ffe90dc-49d2-4629-8fb1-d57421d5e4d0
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@jalefkowit That's... so... awful...
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@jalefkowit dafuck!?
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@jalefkowit So missionaries for the Technocracy now? I feel like I have some dystopian books on my shelves with this plot.
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@jalefkowit blegh, maybe Peace Corps has always done this and I'm just ignorant but this institution engaging so explicitly in a corporate interest feels very gross
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"Have you even CONSIDERED the productivity benefits of applying frontier models to agentic workflows," the Peace Corps guy says to a local who just keeps repeating "clean water"
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@jalefkowit This is uncanny. A guy where I work was doing a presentation where he gushed about how a woman in a village in a developing county could diagnose the cause of her child’s fever and diarrhea using AI: I said it sounded like they could use clean drinking water much more than AI. Really took the wind out of the presenter’s sails but he needed a reality check.
@MisuseCase @jalefkowit How much clean water will the datacenter use to tell the villager they need clean water.
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"Have you even CONSIDERED the productivity benefits of applying frontier models to agentic workflows," the Peace Corps guy says to a local who just keeps repeating "clean water"
@jalefkowit In a similar vein …
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"Have you even CONSIDERED the productivity benefits of applying frontier models to agentic workflows," the Peace Corps guy says to a local who just keeps repeating "clean water"
@jalefkowit aaaaaaa too many layers of bullshit (head explodes)
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Does #ai work when there is an unstable and unreliable internet connection? Asking for a friend in Africa. -
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Does #ai work when there is an unstable and unreliable internet connection? Asking for a friend in Africa.@jalefkowit
Follow-up question, does #ai work on a Nokia phone using SMS text messages? -
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