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The AI/Fascism Nexus
The AI/Fascism Nexus
The AI/Fascism Nexus By Alex Oops, we did it again. I can't say that I'm terribly surprised, as Harris ran a center right campaign and tossed a mighty chunk...
·buttondown.com·
The AI/Fascism Nexus
AI is turning us into machines | David M. Berry
AI is turning us into machines | David M. Berry
The glitches we often see in conversational interfaces like Alexa and Siri reveal to us the unique human ability we have to deploy empathy in conversations and social life. But in order for artificially intelligent machines to learn, more and more we must express ourselves in a reduced language and must simplify the complex range of human expression into something AI can understand. As we learn to live within the narrow confines of the computer, we will increasingly begin to lose the creative expressive potential of our bodies and language, writes David Berry.
·iai.tv·
AI is turning us into machines | David M. Berry
Eryk Salvaggio (@CyberneticForests@assemblag.es)
Eryk Salvaggio (@CyberneticForests@assemblag.es)
I took the free OpenAI course for K-12 educators. I found it shifted the responsibility to educators to discover how to use these tools in their classrooms while offering frames that prevented the development of a critical thinking toolkit. https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/how-does-openai-imagine-k-12-education/
·assemblag.es·
Eryk Salvaggio (@CyberneticForests@assemblag.es)
Julian Stallabrass, Memories of the Present, NLR 148, July–August 2024
Julian Stallabrass, Memories of the Present, NLR 148, July–August 2024
What forms of criticism should be brought to bear on the pseudo-realist ‘photographs’ produced by prompts to AI programmes? Julian Stallabrass gets a bead on these thrice-alienated products of human image-making by framing them within information-science concepts of cultural entropy and philosophical considerations on déjà vu.
·newleftreview.org·
Julian Stallabrass, Memories of the Present, NLR 148, July–August 2024
ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web
ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web
OpenAI’s chatbot offers paraphrases, whereas Google offers quotes. Which do we prefer?
·newyorker.com·
ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web
The Banality of Online Recommendation Culture
The Banality of Online Recommendation Culture
A recent surge of human-curated guidance is both a reaction against and an extension of the tyranny of algorithmic recommendations.
·newyorker.com·
The Banality of Online Recommendation Culture
The “Godfather of AI” Predicted I Wouldn’t Have a Job. He Was Wrong.
The “Godfather of AI” Predicted I Wouldn’t Have a Job. He Was Wrong.
Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton said that machine learning would outperform radiologists within five years. That was eight years ago. Now, thanks in part to doomers, we’re facing a historic labor shortage.
·newrepublic.com·
The “Godfather of AI” Predicted I Wouldn’t Have a Job. He Was Wrong.
felix stalder (@festal@tldr.nettime.org)
felix stalder (@festal@tldr.nettime.org)
Fascinating article about the as yet unpredictable changes AI brings to complex knowledge work. Here the case of radiology. The early predictions of displacement of humans by machines have not come to pass (though, as always, they have simply been pushed into the future). For me, this is the most interesting part, and one that I think applies quite generally. "Still, I have reservations about AI in radiology, particularly when it comes to education. One of the main promises of AI is that it will handle the “easy” scans, freeing radiologists to concentrate on the “harder” stuff. I bristle at this forecast, since the “easy” cases are only so after we read thousands of them during our training—and for me they’re still not so easy! The only reason my mentors are able to interpret more advanced imaging is that they have an immense grounding in these fundamentals." If you automate the easy stuff, it's much harder to gain experience necessary to do the harder stuff, This applies to any craft and all creative/knowledge work as an important element of craft to it. https://newrepublic.com/article/187203/ai-radiology-geoffrey-hinton-nobel-prediction
·tldr.nettime.org·
felix stalder (@festal@tldr.nettime.org)
DAIR (Distributed AI Research Institute)
DAIR (Distributed AI Research Institute)
The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.
·dair-institute.org·
DAIR (Distributed AI Research Institute)
Crip-Int
Crip-Int
·cripint.art·
Crip-Int
John Carlos Baez (@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz)
John Carlos Baez (@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz)
Bifogad: 1 bild 𝗤𝗨𝗜𝗖𝗞! 𝗙𝗘𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗧! Academic publisher Taylor & Francis recently sold many of its authors’ works to Microsoft for $10 million, without asking or paying the authors — to train Microsoft’s large language models! Taylor & Francis asked their journal "Learning, Media and Technology" to cut peer review time to 15 days — absurdly little time — to crank out more content. And Taylor & Francis's subsidiary Routledge told staff that it was “extra important” to meet publishing targets for 2024. It moved some book deadlines from 2025 to 2024. Why? To meet its deadline with Microsoft. Another academic publisher, Wiley, made a $44 million deal to feed academic books to LLMs — with no way for authors to opt out. They say “it is in the public interest for these emerging technologies to be trained on high-quality, reliable information.” When you publish with one of the big academic publishers, they try to make you sign a contract saying they can do whatever they want with your work. That means anything. Hat-tip to @bstacey@icosahedron.website for pointing this out. These articles have links to original sources: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/08/04/more-academic-publishers-are-doing-ai-deals/ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/09/28/routledge-nags-academics-to-finish-books-asap-to-feed-microsofts-ai/
·mathstodon.xyz·
John Carlos Baez (@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz)
AI Image Statistics: How Much Content Was Created by AI
AI Image Statistics: How Much Content Was Created by AI
Discover AI image statistics: the total number of AI images, the number of images created with Stable Diffusion, Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, DALL-E 2, and more.
·journal.everypixel.com·
AI Image Statistics: How Much Content Was Created by AI
The Intelligence Age
The Intelligence Age
In the next couple of decades, we will be able to do things that would have seemed like magic to our grandparents.
·ia.samaltman.com·
The Intelligence Age
Cyberwitches Manifesto
Cyberwitches Manifesto
Cyberwitches Manifesto | Le Manifeste des Cybersorcières | Lucile Olympe Haute
·lucilehaute.fr·
Cyberwitches Manifesto