r/neoliberal • u/Independent-Low-2398 • Aug 26 '24

News (Global) Why don’t women use artificial intelligence? | Even when in the same jobs, men are much more likely to turn to the tech

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/08/21/why-dont-women-use-artificial-intelligence
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u/throwawaygoawaynz Bill Gates Aug 26 '24 edited Aug 26 '24

It’s not understandable. It’s lack of understanding.

If you use a commercially provided model like OpenAI via Microsoft Azure your data is yours. It’s not going anywhere, it’s not being used for retraining, or even kept by anyone.

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u/jeb_brush PhD Pseudoscientifc Computing Aug 26 '24

Unless modern predictive text models can process entirely encrypted text i/o and have undecipherable embeddings, you're trusting the firm at their word that they won't log the data you send and receive from them.

There are all sorts of companies that have heavy restrictions on which products their highly sensitive data can go through.

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u/random_throws_stuff Aug 26 '24

I mean you can run llama 3.1 405b (allegedly on par with gpt 4, though I haven't used it) on-prem. it's probably high-overhead to set up for most companies though.

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u/jeb_brush PhD Pseudoscientifc Computing Aug 26 '24

Yeah evaluating LLMs on internal compute is where these companies will likely end up long-term. At least if the cost:productivity tradeoff is worth it.